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

‘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.

Escape into my stories…Ride through my pages…

Escape into my stories…Ride through my pages…

Escape into my stories…

Alex Allington writes Young Adult and Middle-Grade fiction. She is working on a contemporary Equestrian Fiction series – ‘Luckshill Riders’. Also on the workbench is her, Middle Grade, ride-through-time adventure series – ‘We Rode For…’ starting with ‘We Rode For Wessex.’.

Ride through my pages…

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15 – 22 June 2025. Horrible Windows Update to Walking Into Doors.

15 – 22 June 2025. Horrible Windows Update to Walking Into Doors.

No idea how or why these things occur despite my machinery being set up to only update on command by me. This time across several machines we lost functionality, it removed Apps, caused blue screens, and decided that me working was going to have to stop – my oldest and very fast HP lap top now behaves as if it is chewing gum as it is W10 I feel it’s been injected with obsolescence. Then I walked into a door… Continue reading

17th to 23rd Feb 2025

17th to 23rd Feb 2025

Hard to write anything in the face of the world situation that I for one cannot influence.

Hard to think of writing adventure stories with a happy ending when you cannot see one suddenly.

My father fought in WW2 – just a boy like all the others. My mum was a little girl and but for him surviving that war I would not be typing this. He is long dead now – never saw a mobile phone nor the Internet. I’m pretty sure he’d be disgusted at us all.

My writing is a bit ‘off’ this week. My old laptop died. Another I wore out and though I have a second, the first will need replacing and honestly Today, I Can’t See The Point.

Don’t give up. It matters.

Hum. 😞. Not much. But I have to or the real dictators in this world win.

Fuck’em.

 

10th Feb – 16th Feb 2025

10th Feb – 16th Feb 2025

Couple of scruff-cats😀
Out and about sketching and thinking about plots😀
I can never get enough flower power these days😀

The daily work on the manuscript continues with Pro Writing Aid critiques – they are in the cusp of introducing their whole ms feed back but even the level I am using currently is very cheering to do and I won’t be starting self-edit phase until mid to end March so by then I will have a lot of feed back to think about before anything gets booked with an Editor.