Hello my dearest readers, Welcome to the new me! As you can see, I’ve had a little work done – though I swear that the picture at the top is one hundred and twenty per cent accurate – and I hope you’ll love it as much as I do. Go on, have a play with …
You know you have writer’s block when: 1. You do little sums in your head to work out how many words you’ve already written and how many you still have to go before you hit the target of 500 a day. 2. These little sums get more and more complicated and start to involve calculators, …
Eventually I had to fight myself out of the cosy embrace of the Dog Who Came In From the Cold and trudge to the Barclays &*$%£ Bank in the Village, to present myself in person to be chastised for forgetting my codes, my mother’s maiden name and my full postal address – and also to …
I’m settling down to read my next five chapters of The Dog Who Came In From the Cold, next to my cosy little fire, and right in front of my delectable alcove cupboards which are CLOSED and hiding the hideous telly. Things simply couldn’t be much better …….except, of course, that as ever, a vile …
Ladies and gentlemen, I have a dream. It’s not about peace and harmonee for the whole world, I’m sad to say, though I’m perfectly happy to get behind that as and when. No, it’s a simpler, purer dream. My dream is to shut my TV inside a cupboard. I’ve always had a thing about the …
*Blush* The adorable Brit in Bosnia/Fraught Mummy has lavished me with the Zombie Chicken award. Dearest Fraught, you shouldn’t have, but I’m so glad you did! For the very few out there who are not yet aware of the true significance of the award, I reproduce its mission statement: “The blogger who receives this award …
As we’ve come over all literary (and don’t worry, I’m sure it won’t last) did you see a little article in yesterday’s Independent, entitled, ‘Raise your brendice to a new lexicon’? It was all about a book called The Wonder of Whiffling, a compendium of quirky words from around the globe. Obviously I am beyond …
Very excited as I have been asked to join the Telegraph’s online book club. I started my journalistic career, oooh, 400 years ago, on the Peterborough column of the mighty Telegraph. The paper had just moved to Docklands but had one foot still very much in Fleet Street. My colleagues on Peterborough, although all in …
I have been tagged by the wonderful, irrepressible Linda of gotyourhandsful and havealovelytime. Linda is a great writer, and one of the kindest people I know, so I have no hesitation at all in nicking one of her best lines, to announce that I do love a good tagging. This tag is all about favourite …
I do feel guilty for inflicting my last whinge on you. Blimey, I shall have to do double the blessing counting if we’re to get through even the beginning of autumn in any sort of shape. Thanks for all your kind words and I’ll try not to do it again. I was going to counteract …