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0 32  1 Comment on Tuesday 3 December 2024: Catching up
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Tuesday 3 December 2024: Catching up

  Gosh, what a lot of catching up I have to do today…Where did I leave you? Oh yes, Wednesday… I didn’t feel very well on Wednesday. During Monday night…

0 86  2 Comments on Wednesday 27 November 2024: Rubbish technology
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Wednesday 27 November 2024: Rubbish technology

So, Tuesday was all about poor communication and rubbish customer service. Wednesday was all about technology failing… I reminded myself that Mercury was now in retrograde and wondered if that…

0 120  2 Comments on Tuesday 19 November 2024: Snow watch
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Tuesday 19 November 2024: Snow watch

After a busy and lazy weekend we struggled to get up on Monday. And while I was having breakfast, I wandered off down another rabbit hole, this time watching a…

0 118  2 Comments on Monday 18 November 2024: Publication day!
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Monday 18 November 2024: Publication day!

I took 2 days off last week, but that didn’t necessarily mean I didn’t do any work. Thursday morning we took the dog back to his humans. On the way…

0 153  4 Comments on Thursday 14 November 2024: Wild goose chase
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Thursday 14 November 2024: Wild goose chase

Because I fell down a rabbit hole on Tuesday, I didn’t get around to yesterday’s blog post until yesterday. I collected and replied to some comments on my gardening post,…

0 167  4 Comments on Monday 11 November 2024: Remembrance Day
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Monday 11 November 2024: Remembrance Day

The only thing I really worked on on Friday was The Secret of Whitehorse Farm. And even then it was only pre-writing. Everything else was on binder work in Scrivener…

0 183  4 Comments on Monday 4 November 2024: Publication day!
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Monday 4 November 2024: Publication day!

Before I carry on, I’d just like to say IT’S PUBLICATION DAY! Paper Roses, a Wordsworth short, is out today! You can buy it from Books2Read/DianeWordsworth. Right, after I posted…

0 128  2 Comments on Wednesday 30 October 2024: Tax shouldn’t be taxing…
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Wednesday 30 October 2024: Tax shouldn’t be taxing…

With nowhere to sit yesterday morning, because most of the living room furniture was stacked in the dining room and I couldn’t get to any of the dining furniture, the…

0 127  2 Comments on Tuesday 29 October 2024: Writing and reading
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Tuesday 29 October 2024: Writing and reading

Our internet is shocking at the moment. The entire village have been complaining, despite high-speed cables being laid beneath the roads in recent months. We’re getting all the upheaval of…

0 205  4 Comments on Monday 21 October 2024: Leisurely weekend
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Monday 21 October 2024: Leisurely weekend

I forgot to mention in Friday’s post that on Wednesday the money I was owed by Vocal landed in my bank account. On Thursday morning, another job I did from…

0 167  2 Comments on Friday 18 October 2024: Home again!
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Friday 18 October 2024: Home again!

I was a day behind all week on my blog posts, so when the poet finished his work on Wednesday and we decided to head home on Thursday, I didn’t…

0 234  4 Comments on Monday 14 October 2024: Northern Lights
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Monday 14 October 2024: Northern Lights

We had a late night on Thursday, binge watching something on Netflix. Fortunately, it meant we were still up to watch one of the apparently best ever shows of the…

0 191  2 Comments on Thursday 10 October 2024: I wrote a(nother) short story!
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Thursday 10 October 2024: I wrote a(nother) short story!

When I got up yesterday I was convinced it was Tuesday. I still had my story to write for 12 STORIES IN 12 MONTHS. But it was fine, I still…

0 219  2 Comments on Wednesday 9 October 2024: It’s deadline day! 😱
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Wednesday 9 October 2024: It’s deadline day! 😱

I had such a leisurely start yesterday, not rushing or worrying. I mean, I had ALL day to write a story that was due in today, and I’d already done…

0 159  2 Comments on Tuesday 8 October 2024: Getting annoyed with things
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Tuesday 8 October 2024: Getting annoyed with things

Monday morning began with me finalising the outline for THE MYSTERY AT HORTON EDGE on Story Plotter on my tablet, which I did straight after breakfast while still in my…

0 204  2 Comments on Friday 4 October 2024: That was the week that was
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Friday 4 October 2024: That was the week that was

I skipped a few more regular daily posts over the past couple of days due to the September wrap-up, the Hello October, the book review, and the Take One Idea…

0 206  2 Comments on Wednesday 18 September 2024: Tidying my Scrivener binders
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Wednesday 18 September 2024: Tidying my Scrivener binders

Today’s image was a free image from DepositPhotos. I liked it, even if I don’t know what’s in the glass… We both woke up with aches and pains everywhere yesterday….

0 175  2 Comments on Tuesday 27 August 2024: Working on the schedule
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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…

0 267  6 Comments on Wednesday 14 August 2024: I wrote another short story…
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Wednesday 14 August 2024: I wrote another short story…

It’s almost as though I do this kind of thing for a living! We were up with the larks again yesterday because my car was booked in for what we…

0 253  4 Comments on Tuesday 13 August 2024: Happy dentist
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Tuesday 13 August 2024: Happy dentist

We went out on Sunday to get me a long grabby thing (long-handled litter-picker) so that when I’m walking around the garden, I can easily pick up windfall apples and…

0 284  3 Comments on Thursday 8 August 2024: Working in Ireland
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Thursday 8 August 2024: Working in Ireland

After our first trip to Durham, where I didn’t really organise myself properly, I think I’ve learnt some lessons because, so far, Ireland has been working quite well. We lost…

0 292  2 Comments on Friday 19 July 2024: Free image Friday
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Friday 19 July 2024: Free image Friday

Today’s free image was so cheerful and energetic, I just had to use it. I love yellow. The poet was up bright and early to head back to the midlands….

0 311  2 Comments on Wednesday 3 July 2024: Productive day
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Wednesday 3 July 2024: Productive day

After a bit of a rough night, we were up relatively early to take the poet to the dentist. He was full of cold (hence the rough night) and secretly…

0 265  2 Comments on Thursday 20 June 2024: More writing!
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Thursday 20 June 2024: More writing!

After a late night on Sunday submitting the cosy mystery for the anthology, Monday started later than usual. Over breakfast, though, I dealt with emails, one of which had come…

0 291  2 Comments on Wednesday 19 June 2024: Busy weekend #2
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Wednesday 19 June 2024: Busy weekend #2

Sunday was Father’s Day and I had up to 2 stories to write and a blog post. One of the stories, THE KNIGHT OF WANDS, had to be in by…

0 285  2 Comments on Wednesday 22 May 2024: Magpies are clever
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Wednesday 22 May 2024: Magpies are clever

I’m not used to being in the house on my own yet and during the night on Monday/Tuesday, I woke up at about 3:30am thinking I could hear noises. I…

0 892  1 Comment on Monday 15 April 2024: I❤️processes
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Monday 15 April 2024: I❤️processes

The dog very graciously waited until 6:30am on Friday morning before waking us up the first time. He went straight back in his basket and slept for another hour. Then…

0 395  2 Comments on Friday 12 April 2024: Late up!
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Friday 12 April 2024: Late up!

Oh my goodness, what a late start we had on Thursday. We’d had a really rough night with the dog. He was all right in the end, but from 2am…

0 432  2 Comments on Thursday 11 April 2024: The week is galloping along
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Thursday 11 April 2024: The week is galloping along

Image courtesy of Deposit Photos It’s free image day, hence today’s picture. I liked it, so I used it. How can I be writing Thursday’s blog post already? It seems…

0 952  2 Comments on Wednesday 10 April 2024: New books & notebooks
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Wednesday 10 April 2024: New books & notebooks

I bought 2 books in the end from Amazon with my gift vouchers, earned playing games, and I still had £5.02 left. The books I bought were both writers’ guides….

0 337  2 Comments on Thursday 27 March 2024: My reading this week
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Thursday 27 March 2024: My reading this week

Wednesday morning was even slower getting started than Tuesday morning, and I had a lot to do. I really couldn’t afford to fanny around. And yet, that’s what I seem…

0 536  2 Comments on Friday 15 March 2024: Catfish, anyone?
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Friday 15 March 2024: Catfish, anyone?

We have a meal plan. Not because of any diet, but originally for budgetary purposes and now for variety. Plus, it’s easier if we don’t have to decide what to…

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Friday 23 February 2024: Things picking up again

It started to rain during the night on Wednesday. I remember waking up and registering it and then going straight back to sleep. Instead of lying there listening to it!…