Updatey thing

It seems like lately all I do is apologise for not posting. Must get better.
Mum has been enjoying her visit so far. I think she’s feeling slightly at a loose end because she’s so far re-organised several cupboards and cleaned out my freezer. It’s all little jobs that needed doing, but the kind of thing [...]

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Stuff and stuff

In knitting news, the hat that was going to be my knit night project was far quicker to knit that anticipated. So quick that I finished it (and seamed it) last night. Oops. It’s beautiful, though, and only took one skein of yarn instead of the two specified in the pattern so I now have [...]

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Stuff. And more stuff

The challenge thing is done barring the edits which I am just about to do. Yay me.
The cats have discovered the joys of my bathroom and, thankfully, worked out how to get out of the bath as well as in. I had visions of needing to rescue stranded kitties regularly.
Annie wants to catch my cursor. [...]

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Musings

So I’m nearly done with writing for a challenge that I entered (I should make it just under the deadline). Hitting the word count has not been the problem. *Stopping*, that is proving to be the problem. What is it about challenges this year that is making be break the 2,500 word mark when I [...]

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Interesting link on hypermobile hands

This blog article popped into my Google Alerts today: They should do all assistive technology this way.
It’s interesting because the photos of the girl’s hands are remarkably familiar, particularly the way she holds a pen without her ring splints. I’ve always been used to my hands aching after writing for a while and nearly seizing [...]

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Interesting article on the business side of writing

msagara writes a lot of interesting articles about writing, the writing business and the bookselling industry but she’s written a particularly interesting one today about the business of writing and choosing your writing area. Read it here because it’s the kind of thing that sparks all sorts of thoughts on what we choose to write [...]

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Weekend doings

Sometimes you have weekends where you get to the end not knowing what you’ve done with the time and not feeling like you’ve actually accomplished anything. Then there are other weekends where, even though you didn’t acheive anything particularly practical, you did what you set out to do and feel much better for it. This [...]

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What I have done this weekend, by ArcheryGirl

This weekend I have been remarkably productive:
- Put in a huge update for the Quakers website.
- Finished another two blanket patches, bringing my total tally up to 4 of 63.
- Wrote a big chunk of Sensible Man
- Walked into town and explored the new shopping centre.
- Replaced the work shirt that the washing machine ate [...]

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I’m packed (I think)

Tomorrow I catch my flight to Canada, which means getting up at silly o’clock because we must be at Heathrow by 8am Or Else. This means that we’re giving ourselves lots and lots of time (90 minutes) to get there because, although it’s usually only a 45 minute drive, we’ve been caught out before and [...]

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What have I been up to?

The last two weeks seem to have flown by and yet I’m not quite sure what I’ve actually achieved during them.
I had a lovely weekend up in London, visiting my sister and buying pretty baubles in Liberty.
Last weekend was a quiet, not doing much of anything weekend. I didn’t even write.
This weekend has been a [...]

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