Tag: great novella challenge
Thursday 6 November 2025: New schedule begins
Last job of the day on Tuesday was supposed to be schedule work. Then I remembered yesterday’s entry for 12 stories in 12 months. It’s rare I get this done…
Wednesday 5 November 2025: Bonfire Night!
I love Bonfire Night. It’s one of my favourite times of the year. I love the bonfires, the fireworks, the sparklers, the hot dogs, the jacket potatoes, the smell of…
Tuesday 4 November 2025: All good intentions
By last Thursday morning, I had all good intentions of being caught up at least a little bit. But then I couldn’t even remember to schedule Thursday’s blog post on…
Wednesday 29 October 2025: Perfect partners
So here we are. Halfway through the week, and almost at the end of October, and I still haven’t done any work this week. I’ve done some blog posts, yes….
Tuesday 21 October 2025: Keeping an eye on things
I forgot to mention on Friday, that while we were re-arranging the office furniture around the new internet router, I was doing a lot of crawling around on my knees….
Friday 3 October 2025: Silly billy
Gosh, this is a long one. Make your favourite drink and pull up a chair… Monday The poet was up bright an early on Monday morning to head off down…
Thursday 2 October 2025: Misty mornings
And here we are – already 2 days into October and, already again, misty mornings are upon us. I do love this time of year, although winter is my favourite….
Friday 26 September 2025: Funeral today
I’ve said it before, but Thursdays are always my most tired days, for some reason, and this week was no different. Really struggled to get up yesterday. I think we’re…
Thursday 25 September 2025: Book 11 begins
I had my latest dermatology appointment yesterday at 11am, which should have given us plenty of time to get there. But we both overslept. That’s what happens when we turn…
Friday 19 September 2025: Skipped a day
So I got out of sync and missed a day, but thought it was fine. I had plenty of time to climb back on board before Friday…and then I ran…
Wednesday 17 September 2025: Another book on the way…
I had a much better start to the day yesterday. I was up on time. I was at my desk on time. And I started to catch up on a…
Wednesday 10 September 2025: Ten down, two to go
I finished work early on Friday because we were doing the shopping early. Our Saturday was already fully booked in advance and Friday evening was the only chance we had….
Tuesday 9 September 2025: Last Friday
We struggled to get up on Friday, probably because we’d been so rudely awakened the day before when we thought we were getting a lie in. It resulted in both…
Thursday 4 September 2025: Down came the rain
Saturday was a working day for me, or a semi-working day. Because of all the IT shenanigans, I’d lost a lot of time in the week before and I only…
Wednesday 3 September 2025: Organised chaos
Thursday and Friday were a bit chaotic. Thursday Thursday began with my dirty cuppa and with me doing what I could on the limited mobile signal on the mobile phone,…
Friday 22 August 2025: Bank holiday weekend ahead!
Ohmygosh, I was soooo tired on Wednesday night, we went to bed early and as soon as my head hit that pillow I was literally gone. The next thing I…
Wednesday 6 August 2025: Catching up for last week
I’m way behind on the blog posts at the moment. I’ll try and keep them short and sweet so that I can catch up a bit. Last Tuesday By the…
Tuesday 5 August 2025: Last Tuesday
Well, the weekly blog posts went a bit awry a bit quick there. I did notice in time to change the publication date of the bookazine, so that I could…
Friday 25 July 2025: Getting better, slowly
Slow start to the day yesterday. We’re both still really struggling with Covid, and neither of us is definitely clear of it yet. We both think we can do something,…
Tuesday 15 July 2025: St Swithun’s Day
I think we’ll start with some good news today. Well, good news for me at least. We got back from Stratford a week ago on Saturday. Between then and yesterday,…
Thursday 10 July 2025: More book covers
First job Wednesday morning, after feeding the dog and the birds, was Week 3 of the 50 crime mystery prompts workshop. This is the final workshop in this course. I…
Tuesday 8 July 2025: Cover work
After a lovely break in Stratford last week, yesterday was back to normal, apart from having grand-doggy #1 with us to get us up on time. We were both exhausted…
Thursday 3 July 2025: Steady as she goes
I had a good, clean shot at the day’s work yesterday. My planner was neatly filled in, with specific jobs against specific time slots, and with two half-hour breaks throughout…
Wednesday 2 July 2025: Novella 8 in the bag
We had a hot and busy weekend. With another heatwave on the go, it was starting to get quite unbearable. We kept as cool and hydrated as we could, but…


































