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Posted on March 6, 2021

A pop-up bike shop and a spoilt princess of a novel.

My son has turned the kitchen and conservatory into a bike shop. Grateful he’s out of bed and not torturing his teachers online, I haven’t complained. And the children are…

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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 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 December 19, 2020December 19, 2020

Advent 3: Rattling Out a Synopsis/ Wise men finally get to Bethlehem.

Hello. It might flatter you to know I jumped out of bed to write this post at 5am. No idea what I’m going to say, but I do enjoy saying…

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Posted on December 14, 2020December 15, 2020

Advent 2: Have I magically become good at fast drafting? Certainly I’m no better at multi-tasking.

You know that novel that was brewing? The plan was to outline it so I could get going with a first draft in the New Year. A week later, the…

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