July 2, 2026 by alexallington@outlook.com

Catch up to July 2026 and Writing On…

I brought in the time-shifty YA’s and cleaned out the box, and then I finished transcribing the last story in the Luckshill Riders series, which has always been provisionally called Now We Are 50. It’s a start. 🙂

May 7, 2026 by alexallington@outlook.com

‘In midst of life we are in death’ 07/05/2026

I suppose I should say ‘Happy New Year’ – maybe I am just wishing we’d had one.

Too many things have happened between my last post here and now to write about. The most important thing is that my mum died a few weeks ago.

I have yet to resume either writing or gardening or anything else I was doing before Christmas 2025. I have not yet regrouped.

All I can say is that I can plant the vegetable garden. That the stories are where I left them, so I can write on when I want to. The grass is growing, so I guess we will be silaging soon.

22nd August – 27th August 2025

Rufus in the drought stricken field tucking into 3rd breakfast.

Still trying to sort out the Substack thingemy.

No work directly on any manuscript this week. Next week is beginning of 3rd 1/3 of 3rd 1/4 of year and it looks busy on the writing front now as other tasks are completed.