Assorted Ramblings… Watchers – Read The Thing 4 Dec 201516 Aug 2017 Winter Time And The Living Is Easy I have been taking it nice and easy since completing my NaNoWriMo novella on 23rd November. It has been nice, but I have…
Assorted Ramblings… Meta-NaNoWriMo 2015 Day 23 24 Nov 201511 Nov 2016 It's Over! Thank the muses and the boozes it is complete! I'm quite chuffed. I passed 50K on day 15, which was a win for anxious writing and inept time…
Assorted Ramblings… Meta-NaNoWriMo 2015 Day 17 17 Nov 201511 Nov 2016 Baulking At The Brink Of Success This may be my first day this month that I have not successfully written words for my story. On the plus side, I passed 50,000 by…
Assorted Ramblings… Meta-NaNoWriMo 2015 Day 9 9 Nov 20159 Nov 2015 28,091 Words So Far That's quite a lot. It has snuck up on me. It should be obvious, but by writing a bit more every day I end up with…
Assorted Ramblings… Meta-NaNoWriMo 2015 Day 5 5 Nov 20159 Nov 2015 Keep It Going I don't think I've tried to do anything continuously for five days before. I've even given up working for five days a week. But I'm feeling pretty…
Assorted Ramblings… Meta-NaNoWriMo 2015 Day 3 3 Nov 20159 Nov 2015 It's dea three of Naooorimooo And it's making me hyper... But, good progress so far - I hit 10,120 words today which is past the 10% mark, because I can't…
Assorted Ramblings… Meta-NaNoWriMo 2015 Day 1 1 Nov 20159 Nov 2015 I've been fretting about NaNoWriMo for the last week, since deciding to take the plunge and drown in words for a month. I have started! Hurray. Not bad considering I…
Assorted Ramblings… This Week, Monday 8th June 2015 9 Jun 20158 Jun 2015 The Brain, Its Eye Peels I feel as if my mind is slowly reawakening. Normal things are being normal again, I'm laughing at funny things and am sad about sad…
Assorted Ramblings… Slightly Broken: Sadness and Grieving 18 May 201517 May 2015 I Ha' Been Away It's been quite a while since I've done any proper writing. I stopped because I was overwhelmed by other things such as work, stuff and other…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 31st March 2014 2 Apr 20142 Apr 2014 Ten Thousand Horrors So my week is delayed a few days. This is exactly how it feels - as if the days are slip-sliding over each other in their keenness…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 24th March 2014 24 Mar 20142 Apr 2014 Up And Down Till I Vomit Another week has flashed by in the wink of a naked eye. The last week has had a terrifying mix of ecstatic highs and…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 17th March 2014 17 Mar 201416 Mar 2014 Thrashed, Utterly ThrashedI seem to have almost annihilated my health by working too hard and worrying too much. There are loads of stupid consequences of such behaviour: lack of suitable…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 10th March 2014 10 Mar 20149 Mar 2014 Egad, Be This The Sparklings of Spring? It's not coat weather anymore, that's for sure. I despise the heat, and sweating is a bestial practice. That's why I so…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 3rd March 2014 6 Mar 20142 Apr 2014 Why So Quiet This Week? Hideously I feel it is the result of a soul-deep weariness and hyperbole. I am a bit worn - last week was pretty busy and…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 24th February 2014 24 Feb 201424 Feb 2014 Four Day Weeks I don't know if there's something inherently oppressive about working five days a week, but when I'm freed from it it make s a huge difference. I…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 17th February 2014 17 Feb 201417 Feb 2014 That's No Moon We've had awesome moons with streamers of twisting cloud tearing past all week. The wind driving it's been quite powerful - not so much here in Nottingham,…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 10th February 2014 10 Feb 20149 Feb 2014 New Wheels, Sleeping Last week was busy while not having that many things in it... I find those weeks odd. I believe it's a combination of having lots of work…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 3rd February 2014 3 Feb 20143 Feb 2014 Aaagh Improv Every Day Well, almost. Last week was fairly exhausting - in a good way, if there is such a thing. Some people tell me there is, the others…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 27th January 2014 27 Jan 20142 Apr 2014 Sneezing Need For Speed It's been an odd week - alternately frantic and quiet. Busy days, quiet evenings. It's not a bad combination I suppose. I am getting that horrible…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 20th January 2014 20 Jan 20142 Apr 2014 Last Week - Peace and Princes Just a few weeks after Christmas I'm already craving peace and quiet again. That's probably the fault of the week before last which really was…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 13th January 2014 13 Jan 201413 Jan 2014 The Week Past So, it turns out that going out for 4 of the five working nights of the first week back at work after Christmas is a little tiring.…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 6th January 2014 6 Jan 20142 Apr 2014 No More Christmas So I must return to work tomorrow. This brings a sadness upon me. I haven't done a huge amount with my fortnight off, but I suppose that…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Wednesday 1st January 2014 1 Jan 20141 Jan 2014 Egad, The Year Is Upon Us I love Christmas, and last year's was very lovely indeed. We met our desired aim of spending short but intense periods with friends and…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 23rd December 2013 24 Dec 201324 Dec 2013 A Day And A Night Until Christmas I am thrilled to have finally finished work for the festive season - it's taken ages and no time at all to get…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 16th December 2013 16 Dec 201315 Dec 2013 Skip Skipping into Wonderful Winter It is of course, mostly raining and drizzly. Well, I think it is. We didn't see daylight today having gotten up late with mild hangover…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 9th December 2013 10 Dec 201310 Dec 2013 Christmas Time, Whiskey and Rhymes Despite my previous fears about not having seen any pied wagtails, my tree-acquiring shenanigans caused me to almost run one of the tiny clockwork creatures…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 2nd December 2013 3 Dec 20133 Dec 2013 Do They Know It's December? Holy frikkin' tinsel everyone, it has become December. I haven't done any Christmas shopping yet... surely people just want to be thought of fondly and…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 25th November 2013 25 Nov 201324 Nov 2013 Slow Motion Acceleration The run up to Christmas always feels really strange - it skips from September to a month from Christmas Eve with alarming fluidity. Maybe it's just that…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 18th November 2013 18 Nov 201317 Nov 2013 Sad Television The main drama in my life this week has been the death of our BT Vision box. It had been titting about with failing to record or recording…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 11th November 2013 13 Nov 20132 Apr 2014 It's Time To Get The After Eights In Seems Christmas is a-coming. We've been poring over the glut of Christmas catalogues spilling out of shop doors and thrust (with astonishing…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 4th November 2013 5 Nov 20132 Apr 2014 Autumn's Fallen It's been a nice quiet week, followed by a nice quiet weekend of getting some sleep and not doing very much. I have enjoyed it! Mainly I've been…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 28th October 2013 28 Oct 20132 Apr 2014 So All Back To Normal Then? Well, no not really. Last week still felt very much as if it was about Colin. Obviously there was the funeral and memorial service…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 21st October 2013 21 Oct 20132 Apr 2014 The Times They Are A-Changing For some reason the classic song by that guy who can't really sing has been playing in my head quite a lot this week. Bob…
