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Posted on February 27, 2021February 27, 2021

A turnaround week

I started this week feeling uninspired – one of my least favourite sensations – and have finished with so much in my head I don’t know what to put in…

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Posted on February 21, 2021

I need a hobby or a school run.

If lockdown continues much longer, I’ll need a hobby. Writing only counted as one when I had very small children. Anything’s relaxing in comparison to wrangling toddlers. Somebody said, “Becoming…

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Posted on February 13, 2021

Not being that wrong and short story link.

For the first four decades of my life, I thought there was something very wrong with me. Then I did a Myers Briggs test and discovered I was an introvert.…

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Posted on February 6, 2021

My husband’s perfectionism, a COVID test and short story cover reveal.

This week has been so complex, I don’t know where to start. Home stuff first: It turned out the black cod was part of a five-course Japanese anniversary meal. If…

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Posted on January 30, 2021

Dark Milk, Graphic Design Fails and Black Cod.

New blog post: Dark Milk, Graphic Design Fails and Black Cod.

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Posted on January 23, 2021

Lowering low standards and accidentally writing a ‘novelette’

I didn’t realise I had any standards to lower until this lockdown. Eighteen months after we adopted a perfectly trained dog, she is now following me to the toilet and…

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Posted on January 16, 2021

Morning routines, existential crises and a good scientific phenomenon.

About a year ago, I read Amy Landino’s Good Morning, Good Life and started a morning routine. I try to get up an hour earlier before everybody else in the…

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Posted on January 9, 2021

An ode to term-time and escaping literary gloom.

Oooh! I’ve changed my WordPress theme. I even like the draft page better. I always enjoy the sanity of a new term. We’re in full lockdown and home-schooling. You might…

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