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McMini
Another gem. On the beach, on a blustery day. “Mummy this wind sounds like a giant growl that never stops.”
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“Come in to my parlour,” said the spider to the fly.
On our last day in Alsace the weather was blinding so we left later and spent a morning at the hotel pool. McMini was playing with model planes, micro mini planes, one of which was an X Wing fighter...
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Things you don’t know about parenting until you try it Number 63: Night Terrors.
One of the surrealist things about having kids is night terrors. McMini is getting over a sick bug and has a slight temperature so it was pretty much a given that he’d have one. They are also more...
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Shingles anybody? It’ll make you feel better.
I was looking at this post, earlier and a few days before that, this one. Both are about trying to balance career with other things, in the first being a Mum, in the second illness. So this is not for...
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Fed up with eating snail and tortoise dust? Join us the #slowwriters.
I know this isn’t a glacier. It isn’t even an iceberg. It’s mini icebergs, in the Tweed but it’s the closest I can get. Ah I was all fired up to write this post, but now I’ve labrynthitis, sinusitis...
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You what?
Occasionally, I go metal detecting. Thus far, no enormous gold hoards have been discovered on my watch – how surprising – but I do find other things which are far more intriguing. Most of the things I...
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Even More McMini
Oh deary me, another one of those weeks, I foolishly volunteered to do a blog meme, thinking I could easily rustle up three victi er hem sorry, three nominees to pass it on to. I have two happily...
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A little light fluff… literally
It’s been a bit too long since I posted anything on my blog. I have a box 010 post owing and heaven knows what else but there may be a bit of a hiatus until after I’ve launched both books… not that I...
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What do you see, you people looking at me?
As many of you probably know, there’s a little bit, in WordPress, that tells you what people typed into their search engines to get to your blog. I’ve just been looking at fellow Gumbee Writers’ Guild...
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Still alive and prattling on about my book. #books #bestsellers (no, really).
Yeh. Sorry about that. However, after a message of concern from one of my fellow bloggers, I thought I should just let you know that I’m still alive. We have plumbergeddon here, new heating being...
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In search of a prince – or the ups and downs of frog kissing…
This week has been rather busy: recovery from half term, the production of the parish magazine which I now edit for my sins and a visit from McOther’s folks. As a result there hasn’t been time for...
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Detail: What Noticing Stuff means to a writer.
Some random true life stories this week, as inspired by Mr Chuck Wendig’s blog, even if I’ve missed the deadline and my very tenuous efforts to link them to my ‘job’ – which is really just an...
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Just another day in paradise!
Come the winter we are hoping we might be able to go skiing so in order to prepare, it occurred to us that it would be smart if McMini and I actually had a go at skiing first. So today, it was McMini’s...
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I want to be straight! (Yeh) I want to be straight! I’m sick and tired of...
It occurred to me, the other day, that it might be prudent to try and explain why it takes me so sodding long to write a book. So in this gargantuan half rant, half post with a dash of tirade I am...
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I bring you tidings of great joy … probably.
I hope this finds you well and that you survived hurricane Doris, if it hit your part of the world. We have, although unfortunately, it appears that our garden fence has not. It’s currently lying prone...
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Can I have fried brains with that? Time management/productivity hacks for...
The longest blog post in the world … probably. This week I will be mostly talking about making something out of nothing, or as that pertains to my world: time management. As many of you will remember,...
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Welcome to my GORGEOUS Life! On humorous giveaways and being embarrassed by...
Jeez, well, this week’s been interesting. Welcome to what the lovely Dame Edna Everage would call, ‘my gorgeous life’ in all it’s technicolour glory! (Phnark.) So, this week McMini had pukka actual...
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And now for something completely different … #eyebombing #eyebombthereforeiam
Eyebombing: the art of spreading googly joy Saddled as we are with a thoroughly grim world landscape right now I thought everyone could do with a bit of cheering up. So it occurred to me that it would...
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This week, I have been mostly thinking about #marketing #bookmarketing...
Oh yes I have. Several things got me started, Tricia Drameh’s post: https://authortriciadrammeh.wordpress.com/2017/05/28/become-a-millionaire-selling-books-on-amazon-or-not/, Then something similar on...
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Mind Expansion Anyone? #McMini #kids #parenting #children
McMini ‘wearing’ a head warmer. Over the holidays I thought it would be fun to tell some of the funny stories about my family. There is ‘Catching Socks’, ‘Night of the Homeless Man’, ‘Tale of the...
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