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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 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 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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Posted on January 2, 2021

Pandemonium and mailing lists

Happy New Year everybody. Hope 2021 brings good things. We’ve been in good going lockdown since New Year’s Eve. I did originally start this post by saying life had been…

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Posted on December 29, 2020

The season of peace and goodwill and probably too much Georgette Heyer

For those hanging on with bated breath: the on-line Nativity was written, cast, filmed and released (privately on Youtube) on Christmas day to rave reviews. I collapsed after lunch on…

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