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Showing posts with label Cats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cats. Show all posts

Saturday, 15 February 2025

#Caturday

The first thing I saw when I woke up this morning.


Thursday, 13 February 2025

X2 More SCGS Books

x2 more books added to my Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories collection. Iam now just x3 books away from completing the current range now. Those remaining books are all in order - with x2 en route from Uxbridge and x1 from America!

Looking through my collection, I had an idea. I have a box of Lego kicking around doing nowt these days. Wouldn't making Lego creations of the Seth drawings featured in these books make for a rather cool project? Hmmmmmm.

Saturday, 8 February 2025

Wednesday, 8 January 2025

Wednesday, 25 December 2024

Merry Crimbo 🎄

Planning next year's goals on my suprise present - an Amazon Scribe!


Pwscat ready for her crimbo dinner:


Pwscat on the prowl:

Saturday, 21 December 2024

Familiarr. Draft 2 complete

The 2nd draft of my final novel is now complete.



Thursday, 12 December 2024

Looking Back on 2024 - Part 1




And so this is Christmas 2024. And what a year it has been! I lost my beloved Soosh in a house fire back in March - an event I still do not think I have processed properly. I also lost most of the book collection I have built up since childhood plus a lot or nostalgic keepsakes, some which has been with me for over half a century. Uninsured, we had to cancel our planned Brusells, Glastonbury and Japan trips to get us at least back on our feet again. It has been a long process and even now the repercussions of the traumatic event have yet to be fully ironed out. Looking back on the first few months of 2024, the only good thing to manifest itself for me for that period of time was my hospital consultant finally put me on my new meds, which I need to be injected with every two weeks. This was a real game-changer for my health, and though it took 4 long years to prescribe me the injections, I am truly grateful to the NHS for allowing me access to this very expensive but miraculous medication. Today, at 58-and-a-half-years old, I have never been so healthy. And on that upbeat note, I think I will close this first part of my lookback on the year that was, and for a couple of weeks still is, 2024…

Saturday, 30 November 2024

Volunteering

My first day volunteering at the local Animal Centre

Saturday, 23 November 2024

Storm Bert

A really atmospheric storm bludgeoned the house all day, conjuring just the right mood to add a big chunk of writing to the novel I'm currently writing, Familiar.

Saturday, 16 November 2024

Thursday, 14 November 2024

Sunday, 10 November 2024

Cracking On.

I woke up this morning feeling quite concerned that on Day 10 of Nanowrimo, I would fail to meet my minimum word quota for the day.  At circa 17k words, I literaly had no idea what would happen next in the novel. 

It's a difficult task completing Nanowrimo - its targets are ruthless, especially when you are holding down a full-time job. Forcing the narrative,  conjuring the plot from the ether can take time, you'd naturally think. But the way this novel clicked together today, really made me appreciate that my muse really rewards the hard graft of daily writing.

When you're fingers bleed,
you're muse will lead.

Saturday, 9 November 2024

Telly

Watching telly with the little one.

Critical Cat

fudjcat critiquing my writing this morning:

Monday, 4 November 2024

Waiting for Mammy

Balancing Act

A day off work to work on my new novel. Typing can be a bit of a balancing act with the fudjcat fighting for dominance of my lap though.


Saturday, 2 November 2024

Cwtching

Saturday, 26 October 2024

Preening Pwscat

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Sunday, 20 October 2024

Pre Halloween Reading

I've been so busy of late, with two important new jobs to learn, training courses  to complete and getting my latest Explore Gower book written and published. Hopefully the next two weeks will be a little quieter so I can crack on with some much needed reading...


Saturday, 19 October 2024

fudjcakes