Dementia redux; rinse and repeat …
It’s a bit of a mixed bag this week. On the one hand, life is getting slowly back to normal, people are allowed out to visit other people and I have been visiting my significant family member: my mum,...
View ArticleHandcart locked and loaded. Destination: Hell … mind the doors please.
This morning it is pissing down and rather cold. Bit of a bummer after it’s been so lovely, although the plants need the rain and I bet the blackbird is pleased not to have to be eternally dive bombing...
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Finding out about how the bunny got on … Bunny! It’s coming down to the wire I have about 50 minutes to break the back of this before we all knock off for the evening, with a quick ten minutes of...
View ArticleWell there’s a thing …
Grumpy bastards R us This week has been a bit of an interesting mix. Is it just me or is everyone a bit grumpy coming out of lockdown? I live on one of the main drags into town so there’s a fair bit of...
View ArticleDown, down, down in a burning ring of fire … a ring of fire …
Yep. That’s where I’m going this week. Flame throwers at the ready. You see, for a while I’ve been wanting to say something about Black Lives Matter but I haven’t really known how. This week … well …...
View ArticleDementia too, because obviously dementia once wasn’t shit enough
Yeh, I selected that heading from Whiny Titles R-Us but it does sum up the way I felt at the start of this week and the feeling I’m trying to describe. The slough of despond; rain and yellow lines …...
View ArticleGeneral wittering …
A quick one this week as I am currently in the thoes of trying to locate my W8BN form. Gads! I have decided to open a Barnes&Noble publisher account to sell my books direct. Why in the name of Pete...
View ArticleSmug mode …
One of the things I’ve been trying to do since lockdown eased is continue walking for an hour each day. Unfortunately, I’m coming up against the usual problem which is that post lock down is back to...
View ArticleMTM fails at modern life … bleargh and t’ing … but then again #AtHomeYALC
Mary fails at modern life Good morning, I am feeling monster lethargic this week. I have two book reviews to write, and haven’t and I have to do this and we’re going out tomorrow to some friends. That...
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You ain’t seen me … roight? Bit of a bum start this week. The touch pad on my computer is bust so no editing my auto responders, doing mailing list anything or Facebook or BB ads because because none...
View ArticleThis week, I have been mostly …
How are you all doing? This week, I mostly did … a podcast appearance. The one I mentioned last week with Bonnie Dillabough. OK so I’m not sure I acquitted myself too well, especially not when it came...
View ArticleThis week I have been mostly …
Reading. Well, OK, not this week but I have been reading so I am going to review a couple of books I enjoyed, so here we go. Erinsmore by Julia Blake At a recent event … well … not that recent – last...
View ArticleArnold’s pants!
Blimey but it’s windy here. Must be all the fruit I’m eating. Oh ho ho. The weather is pretty blowy too. Storm Ellen, I thought we’d had Ellen after Dennis but thinking about it I think that was some...
View ArticleTreasure
Yeh, I know it’s about five hours after the usual time but things got out of hand. Two different types of treasure this week. First the lovely one that is McOther. Ah bless him. This week he was sixty,...
View ArticleWell … that was weird …
Lancing Beach. Just to throw you when I’m talking about Suffolk beaches later. Some guy found a gold coin here. A strange week all round. I was going to share some of the questions and answers I’ve...
View ArticleHow does it work? Audiobooks.
Today I thought it would be interesting to do a what-are-the-duck’s-legs-doing-underneath style post about audiobooks. Obviously, I know jiff all about audiobooks or producing them so the best place to...
View ArticleI aitn’t dead
Several things have happened this week which are very apposite to this heading but since they aren’t fully resolved and I want to wait and talk about them when they are, I thought I’d settle for these...
View ArticleWinning at cars and losing at life …
Unfortunately, at the moment I am not being one of these … Once again, it’s the time of the week when I am supposed to be writing my blog and I’ve done nothing about it. Oops. The fact is, things are...
View ArticleI am a luddite. It’s official.
Gah! Excuse me if everything is a little off today but … ugh something weird has happened. For those of you who don’t know, this site is hosted by WordPress. A while ago, WordPress updated their main...
View ArticleThat’s … a bit of a thing.
These last fifteen days or so have been a bit of a roller coaster. You may, or may not, know – but I think you will know because I can’t believe I haven’t mentioned it – that I have an arthritic knee....
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