30 June 2025 – 06 July 2025 The Writing Week

30 June 2025 – 06 July 2025 The Writing Week

30 June 2025:

I have had a horrible head cold since last week, which while a long way from ‘chest infection’ level, has left me rather sneezy and spluttery; so I went to the Abbotsbury gardens and really enjoyed reading in the shade while thinking about illustration for the series and embellishments I can draw.

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22 June – 29 June 2025 Nothing is Ever Truly Lost: Isolation and Other Returns.

22 June – 29 June 2025 Nothing is Ever Truly Lost: Isolation and Other Returns.

These days I skim around other writers like a pebble over water attracted by the twinkles and the chinks of light or the sound of distant laughter but then, like the pebble, I sink into isolation. I need to be more wood? Wood floats. May be I will start to be an utter plank. Normally, I am a kind and chatty soul after all I have been around a bit now and none of this stays the same and one good power cut from a war to many and all these words and endeavours are gone. Continue reading →

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 →

8th -15 June 2025 Editing Begins – and Abruptly Stops Again – or a Weird Windows Week…

8th -15 June 2025 Editing Begins – and Abruptly Stops Again – or a Weird Windows Week…

Text book Indie Writer Stuff …

All going swimmingly well – printed out MS and carted it to the gardens at Abbotsbury and sat and read through and also in their cafe and I covered it in sticky notes. All good So Far🙄. Continue reading →

27th April to Sunday 4th May: Beginnings and Beginning Again – Seasonality of Life? The Rolling Year…

27th April to Sunday 4th May: Beginnings and Beginning Again – Seasonality of Life? The Rolling Year…

‘When the sun shines grass will grow…’ Ron Huxter. It’s a fact in this part of the world and Ron imparted this, to my then much younger self, on a scrap of paper left in my lambing shed  in response to my panic  that ‘grass might not grow’ ( in time for what ever it was or that it might not be enough grass or the right kind of grass) Looking back now from an age that is close to that Ron was at the time and feeling familiar panic washing through me only minutes after getting out of bed that ‘my writing may never get published’ I realise that the two things are not necessarily The Same. Continue reading →