Category: life as an author
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Returning…
I am sitting in a chair by the window in QA Hospital. I like to sit here while the nurses put the ward back into daytime mode. The sun is shining full pelt today,and I am enjoying watching the people coming and going in the road beneath the window. This tells me that out there,…
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Frustration City
You wouldn’t believe this, but it took me three days to find out how to find somewhere to put a new post. I hadn’t done this before on my iPhone, and I just couldn’t figure it out. I have been among the missing lately, and I have missed talking to you all so much. I…
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Why did I bother?
You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence? Why did I bother came to mind, as my life has not been a bed of roses. But I have made the best of it, and enjoyed quite a lot. Not sure about the end though, as indications are not bright . It will probably say on…
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Better Days are Coming!
I could feel the stirrings of something new and very different yesterday. I didn’t dwell on it too much, as there hasn’t been much good news lately, and I didn’t want to scare it off. But even though I tried to ignore it, the feeling persisted. I was beginning to feel very different. Dare I…
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A Sunday Smile…
There are bright blue skies and sunshine today, a pleasant surprise after so many grey and miserable days.#I slipped on my flip flops and ventured outside, hoping for some signs of Spring. There were no buds on the bonsai, and everywhere I looked, there were dark, bare, empty branches. No other welcome signs of Spring.…
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Battle Progress
Monday morning, and I have just spent an hour grappling with an uncooperative and unrecognizable brain. Not that it’s ever much more than begrudging at this time of day! I have to try to cope with the technical stuff early, before I have exhausted my grey cells completely. 200 emails cleared, comments from our friends…
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2026 is looking better already!
The Chinese New Year: The year of the Fire Horse… (February 17, 2026 -February 5, 2027) I don’t think I would get any argument as to whether last year was worth our time. So, news of a possible better year is most welcome! Apparently, this will be a year that moves quickly and thinks even…
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Me and Snow…
The weather here in the south of England has turned really cold. A bitter wind from the Arctic is doing its best to freeze our toes off. It is almost too cold for rational or creative thought, but I am doing my best and managing to enjoy working on the current WIP. Our year probably…
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Sunday, Sunday…
Morning everybody! It is really cold here in the UK now, unusually cold for us, with temperatures as low as -5 in the south and a staggering -10 in Scotland. We cannot keep the house warm, and we are walking around like Eskimos! There is a bright side to all this weather; we have been…
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Where I am right about now…
I started 2025 as the person I thought I knew, warts and all, familiar, but someone I thought I could trust. Life wasn’t easy, but it seemed doable. Then, all of a sudden, it wasn’t doable any more. Thinking back to the beginning of my troubles, when my legs stopped trying to move, I realise…