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Thursday 19 March 2026: Number crunching

The dog wouldn’t let me go back to sleep yesterday after the poet went off to work. That’s okay, though, right? It means I get to do everything a bit…

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Friday 6 March 2026: The plumber and the roofer…

Write a story around that! Friday already…The week seems to have disappeared into a puff of smoke. I barely got a thing done yesterday. In fact, I didn’t get a…

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Tuesday 17 February 2026: Pancake Day

It’s pancake day today, one of my favourite days of the year. I love pancakes, but I’ve never, ever been successful at making any. I always end up with either…

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Thursday 12 February 2026: Freedom!

Another lazy start to the day yesterday as I headed off for my last (hopefully) appointment for the light therapy treatment. The dogs hadn’t kept us awake half the night,…

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Tuesday 10 February 2026: So much rain

Friday Friday started as usual with my dirty cuppa and my quiet hour. I didn’t get any reading done, and my reading hour does seem to have slipped off the…

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Friday 6 February 2026: More catch-up

Wednesday We had an unexpected sprinkling of snow on Tuesday night, which was nice to watch. It didn’t last long, though, as it was very wet and very quickly turned…

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Wednesday 28 January 2026: Busy day

We had a bit of a rough night after Storm Chandra made landfall. America freezes and the United Kingdom floods! Is Australia on fire? The worst of the rain hasn’t…

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Thursday 22 January 2026: Exercising my driving muscle

I had a much better night on Tuesday. The puppy let me sleep until 5am! Yay! When I got up a bit later and opened the living room curtains, the…

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Wednesday 21 January 2026: Roof man here

I had to get up early yesterday because the roof man was apparently coming. He’d warned it was weather-dependent and as it hasn’t really stopped raining (or snowing for a…

0 217  2 Comments on Tuesday 20 January 2026: Weekend catch-up
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Tuesday 20 January 2026: Weekend catch-up

Grab yourself a cuppa and pull up a chair… Friday Because my appointments at the hospital had been messed up, Friday’s appointment was quite early in the morning. The poet…

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Friday 16 January 2026: Late again…

I had another disturbed night on Wednesday, but this time it was just me waking myself up, coughing. For the most part, everyone ignored me, but I did have to…

0 282  3 Comments on Wednesday 14 January 2026: Steady work
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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….

0 404  2 Comments on Wednesday 19 November 2025: Need more focus time
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Wednesday 19 November 2025: Need more focus time

I’m not getting very many longer segments of time in which I can focus properly on a job that needs a lot of concentration at the moment. So I’m doing…

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Tuesday 18 November 2025: Back to the beginning

On Saturday I had to work. I still had that editing job to do and send off to be set and I wanted it off my desk sooner rather than…

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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…

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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…