Tag: family
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All Set for the Lazy Days Book Tour!
This is definitely going to be something to look forward to in the New Year! This is only the second time we have run a book tour, and this time we will be including a quiz/competition every day, with prizes. Still thinking through all the details, but it will be fun and different… There are…
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#TuesdayBookBlog Lazy Days by Anita & Jaye Dawes #familydrama @jaydawes2
Today, we have done something else for the very first time! Our latest WIP, Lazy Days, is on pre release on Amazon Kindle. Not exactly sure how this works, but D E Haggerty encouraged us to do it. No book link yet, but http://amazon.com/author/anitadawes will get you to the right place. I hope! The…
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Happy Birthday!
Merlin, this fine specimen of cat hood is 13 years old today. It sounds quite old but seems like only yesterday, we peeked inside a cardboard box to see the cutest bundle of black and white fur looking back at us. Right from the beginning, Merlin has known exactly what he wanted and the…
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Work in Progress…
Today, I finished uploading our holiday journal to the PC. While I had been doing this, it was interesting to discover just how little information I had managed to write down all those years ago. For instance, we visited Norwich, one of the largest and oldest cities in Norfolk, and all I wrote down…
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Relationships…
I have always been fascinated by relationships. Any kind of relationship really, for as I grew up, it seemed everyone had one except me. I spent most of my childhood in foster or children’s homes, where most of the other kids were just like me. Sad, forgotten little people who didn’t really understand what was…
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Work in Progress… or Plain Sailing!
I have been sticking like glue to my routine with this new project, determined to finish it no matter what else is going on. See previous post here I write at least 1000 words first thing every morning, regardless of any other work, research or queries that I do later in the day. Although this…
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Jungle Book
The family had been looking forward to watching the new Jungle Book film on TV this Christmas, and listening to them talking about it, I wondered why they loved it so much. I had never seen the earlier cartoon version, although I knew the songs from all the clips they show. I only…
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A Good Sign…
Christmas day was almost perfect. The cooking schedule went like clockwork, and for once the roast potatoes turned out just right. The family arrived on time, and the exchange of gifts had us all laughing. Nothing too expensive, seeing as though we were all as p0oor as church mice this year, but everyone appreciated…