Tag: newsletter
Wednesday 14 January 2026: Steady work
So yesterday I was bragging a bit about neither of us feeling particular blue because our respective football (soccer) teams both won in the FA Cup round at the weekend….
Monday 12 January 2026: Appointment mess
Friday morning meant another trip to Rotherham for another light therapy session. Because it seems to be working, I wanted to find out what would happen if we stopped at…
Thursday 4 December 2025: Newsletter is out
This post also appears on Patreon. I didn’t get around to writing the micro-fiction short story on Tuesday for this month’s 12 stories in 12 months, but I didn’t beat…
Thursday 13 November 2025: Editing
I forgot to complete my food allergies diary on Tuesday, so that was the first job I did Wednesday morning, while it was still fresh in my mind. The second…
Wednesday 12 November 2025: More covers work
Yesterday morning began, bright and early again, with me first letting the puppy out and then feeding them both about an hour later. I had my dirty cuppa and read…
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….
Wednesday 13 August 2025: Newsletter imminent…
Yesterday seems like quite a while ago, probably because it was a busy day. Much of the day for me was taken up with writing. I even had a stunted…
Friday 9 May 2025: Sweet spot
I was up with the poet again on Thursday, which always sets me up for a good day at work. If he leaves the house too early, I go back…
Friday 17 January 2025: Life’s too short
Once I’d fed the birds, had breakfast, got dressed, all those kinds of things, I checked in at my desk and went to collect the third lot of videos for…
Tuesday 27 August 2024: Working on the schedule
On Thursday night I went to bed with a good feeling: I didn’t have to get up to do any work for anyone else in the morning, only me. That…
Friday 23 August 2024: Late summer bank holiday already!
I can’t believe we’re at the late summer bank holiday weekend already! Where on earth did that year go? It’s shooting by in a blur. By the end of the…
Wednesday 21 August 2024: Converting books
The campervan was due in for its first service (with us) and we got up early to go and collect it. I dropped the poet off at the compound, followed…
Tuesday 20 August 2024: I did a BIG job yesterday
I had a lot of catching up to do yesterday, and yet I spent the first half of the day doing bitty stuff. Like yesterday’s blog post and publication planning….
Wednesday 7 August 2024: A week away
On the Friday we broke up for our week away, I ended up stopping work 2 hours earlier than planned because campsite #1 called and asked us to make sure…
Thursday 18 July 2024: Announcement!
I had a bit of a slow, lazy start to the day yesterday. The temperature finally reached something close to ‘normal’ for summer and I thought it was too hot…
Thursday 27 June 2024: Success!
The plan was to step away from the newsletter for a day or so and get on with some other work. However, there was one thing I wanted to do:…
Tuesday 25 June 2024: Back to work!
I’ve included a few more scenes from Poland today, but only for illustrative purposes. It took me a while to get going on Monday. First of all, it was the…
Thursday 21 December 2023: Another free illustration
I thoroughly enjoyed seeing all of my lovely new writer’s guides lined up on my Kindle, all nine of them. I forgot there was another freebie too that I converted,…
Friday 6 October 2023: The weekend already…
So the weekend has crept up on me again and I’ve hardly done any of the things I hoped to do this week. I did manage to compose and send…
Tuesday 20 June 2023: A thunderstorm at last
We had thunderstorms forecast for the entire weekend and, naturally, I was keeping a close eye on them all via my app. Saturday On Saturday I wanted to go to…
Monday 19 June 2023: New bed, new bedding
We had to get up early on Friday because our new bed was coming. I asked if they could give me an idea of what time, and they said any time…
Friday 27 Jan 2023: new publication started
I’d stayed up a bit late to get the short story submitted in time to the writing challenge, and that meant getting up late the next day as well. Once…
That time of year – planning!
Today is 1 December, which means for me it’s the time of year for planning ahead. And I have a lot of planning to do for next year if I…
The portable garden & the pop-up office
Last week we were in beautiful Northumberland on our holidays. We came home a day early so that we could pay for, sign for and collect the keys to our…































