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winter

A collection of 17 issues

I shan't be an asset

From under the dogs, I reinstalled Instagram and started unfollowing accounts, and then making other accounts unfollow me quietly. Updated my 'bio' to say I wasn't there anymore. Messaged a handful of people to ask if they post anywhere else and to say if they don&

Well, we moved house again

I was so scared for months - it's been an elderly lady's house and Anything Could Have Happened to prevent the sale going through - I was genuinely sick with worry. But we're in. It's in the countryside, or a village of

the week we all moved in together

The Big Spoon and I and our dog and two guinea pigs had been sleeping at the new house since last Wednesday, because I got so tired of being sensible and waiting until it made sense. We were on an air bed, which I thought was fine but apparently didn&

W9: writer's block

Early Friday morning the Big Spoon caught me brainstorming Noor's story again. This isn't the current story, I said, this is the one after the one about the flood, which is next. And he said, very gently, if this is the story you keep coming back

week 5: coughing on Kindle

I was so sure I was going to write four pages a day of fiction all of January. I finished Owl, which was good, which meant I could publish Three Stories Not About Birds, and then I started on the rewrites of Lark's Guests and lost my momentum.

w4 review: aaaaatchoo

Tuesday night after realising I had everything figured out, I cleaned the guinea pigs' hutch. Because Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. They seem happy with it, after the usual nose-bomping their toys back into the Correct places. A few things combined to make Wednesday very

w02: 6th-12th January

Woke too early Monday from a bad dream about shopping crowds. Morning pages and fiction pages went fine, bus and work went well, errands in the city were successful but scattered my brain, and then when I was nearly home and buying milk a woman looked at my boots and

w52: 23-29 December

It's been a useful week, apparently, from the look of my completed items log, but I don't seem to have journalled. I bought two new desks with Christmas money so now the Big Spoon and I each have an office. It's very tempting to

w51: 16-22 December

Toward the Midnight Sun (Kindle unlimited) A chatty Monday morning at work - waiting around for a doctor's appointment rather than getting anything done at the house. I was looking forward to using the new leaf blower but the conversation was nice. I wish I could type up

w50: 9-15 December

Priscilla went Very Fast on Monday morning's walk because the pavements are wet & it's just above freezing. It's also pretty windy & two advertising boards blew over as we crossed the river bridge, startling us both. We had a cuddle of reassurance which