Tag: the alphabet adventurers
I can see the end of the year from here … (*list alert*)
Looking back, it seems to have been a busy year with not a lot achieved. But then I remember that I had a book published in November, which I was…
Domestic weekend
We manged to have another weekend off, an entire weekend to ourselves without any obligations to anyone else. And we got quite a lot of work done too, both around…
A good writing day
Despite the recent difficulties I’ve been having regarding finding a new paperback publisher, yesterday turned out to be a good writing day. My working days are clearly split into two…
Organised again
I’ve been a bit overwhelmed with trying to catch up with work again, but I think I finally reached a balance once more. The past week in particular has been…
Diary of a novel: The Beast Within (Week 2) – planning work
We took last week off for the bank holiday. The last time we booked time off was a fortnight in June, when the heatwave was at its height. But we…
Logging time, and a thunderstorm
The time-logging app worked on Monday, very well – to an extent. So too did the “no housework” thing. I say to an extent, because on Monday afternoon we had…
Writing and editing and planning, oh my!
I only have a three-day week this week. This isn’t because of any actual holidays. It’s because I have two appointments in Solihull, one on Tuesday and one on Thursday….
Technobabble
I’m not great technically. I get by. I can learn how to do many things, and I even learned computer programming once upon a time. But these technical giants, they…
Slow day yesterday
When we moved house, we treated Rufus to 2 new baskets. One was for the living room, the other was for the bedroom/office. This is the one currently in the…
The best laid plans … again
It was just starting to go well, with everything dropping into place. I had a great list of things to do. We were going out Friday evening. And we were…
Decisions made (*** lists alert ***)
I spent much of yesterday trying to prioritise my workload and putting jobs into some sort of workable order. I even did a little writing, which was very good. Yesterday…
To-do list (*** list alert ***)
So, it’s all over bar the shouting. Well, actually, it’s all over. We’ve moved the last scrap of wood over from the old house to the new house. We’ve handed…
Life on the farm: all good things … (*** list alert ***)
Well, it’s been about as busy as ever here on the farm, with not a lot of actual words being produced. And it’s about to get even busier. I feel…
Round-up and to-do list
I had a lot to do again last week, and I didn’t manage to do them all. daily writing exercise write a blog post every day I only managed one…
Round-up and to-do list
I’m a bit late with this, this week, but I have been busy, just not necessarily busy doing what I was supposed to be doing … I did some work…
The alphabet adventurers
The time is near for my lifestyle blog, Tales From Baggins Bottom, to pack itself away. It has served me well, since 2005, across Blogger and WordPress. But things change,…
Working at the weekend
I don’t often work at the weekend, or of an evening if I can help it – unless, of course, there’s a genuine emergency and only then if it’s for…
Round-up & to-do list
I had quite a hefty to-do list last week, one that even made me gulp, and only 4½ days in which to do everything. However, I got through pretty much…
A time-management experiment
On Sunday I pre-scheduled Monday’s blog post (round-up) and I worked on my diary for the coming week. I stuck to my original plan of having an hour for morning…
Round-up & to-do list
The week before Easter was a 4-day week. I had a lot to do before we broke up on Thursday, all of which was on the history book. Here’s how…
A new office
So I have a desk in the dining room overlooking the bird table in the garden. The desk is of a very dark oak and it goes very well with…
