Watching From Afar
The last 24 hours have been an interesting experience - watching results roll in from the American mid-term elections. I have no part in the circus - I live ...
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Goodbye Sam
While running back and forth through the hallway to our front door last Thursday, Sam sat in the way - cleaning himself. He didn’t seem too keen to move, and...
Lots And Lots Of Words
I stayed up until midnight on Wednesday night, and wrote eighteen hundred words before falling into bed a little after 1am. I then wrote during lunchtime yes...
The Good And The Bad
While cycling home from work this evening through the early-evening darkness, an entire family walked out in front of me. The family comprised of two adults ...
Ignoring Hints From The Universe
I should really be taking the hint from the universe about attempting to complete NaNoWriMo this year. Life and work seem to be conspiring to warn me off it ...
The Stars Return
While walking into town this evening with Miss 13 on a doomed mission to purchase tea lights for the pumpkins the children have been carving for Halloween, I...
Oh To Be Thirteen Again
It’s been a strange day. I got up early, and after having a shower and getting dressed, noodled around with this and that around the house - putting things a...
In Fear Of The Mountain
A few days ago - when I made the decision to have a crack at NaNoWriMo this year, it seemed kind of like a mountain in the distance. I could see all of it, a...
The Calm Before The Storm
With seven days left until the idiocy of NaNoWriMo begins, it feels very much like the calm before the storm.
Sixteen Hundred Words
While tidying the study this evening, I looked at the games console and flat-screen television that have been taking up the desk in the corner, and that have...