Well, it seems to be here at last. A couple of days of sun and warmth. Spent most of today in the garden, tidying up the grass mowings, then lounging with a book. I have been trying to get more exercise over th e last couple of weeks, mainly by walking up the hill opposite […]
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Just had a look at the website of a local (minor) author – it’s one of the ugliest I’ve seen in a long while. It was produced by a supposedly professional design company. Going to their website and looking through their portfolio I found not only dozens of design-failure horrors – piss-poor in terms of […]
So we’ve had a houseful of guests this weekend. Lots of food, lots of talk – and drink was taken! Naturally, no work was done. B’s had a bad back for several days, meaning I’ve been doing lots of running around, resulting in an extremely complaining knee. Which at least gave the two of us […]
Don’t worry fans – I’m still here. Just not felt moved enough to write anything for a long time. Busy getting on with work, putting a customised ZenCart shop together for Elfin Diaries. It’s the first time I’ve worked with this particular ecommerce platform, and the last two weeks have been a steep learning curve. […]
So, the other day I was enjoying a cup of tea and a biscuit in front of the computer. I had just bitten into the biscuit (a nicely crunchy ginger one) when the phone rang; I put the half-eaten comestible down on the desk while I dealt with the call. Ten minutes later, phone call […]
….same as the old boss? I don’t generally write about politics – it’s too easy to take up an entrenched position that you can’t move out of. Much easier to watch everything, say nowt on the subject and keep your options open. But here in the UK, we’ve come to the end of a pretty […]
In case I haven’t mentioned it before, I’m to be a granny again. This one will be my fourth, and is expected around Christmas.
OK, I don’t post much these days. I spend a lot of time (probably too much time) reading blogs, articles, Twitter and Facebook – I like keeping up with the news. And I haven’t much real work to get on with – heck, no paying work at all right now. Plus my health ain’t that […]
From somewhere, I could hear the lion’s swift trot, its pads slapping on the floor – pad-pad-pad-pad….. …..I awoke to the familiar dub-dub-dub-dub of my heart in full 200bpm SV tachycardia mode. Taking care not to awake B, I tried the usual physical manoeuvres – holding my breath, scrunching up my thoracic muscles – but […]
Just spent half an hour looking back through my blog entries, all the way back to January 2004. I hadn’t realised this blog was so old. I actually started writing a blog sometime in 2000, in Open Diary, a predecessor to Blogger and LiveJournal. (I’ve still got those old posts around somewhere – perhaps I […]