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Crabs

I have been scribbling again as the deadline for both my crabs horror story and Shell Island writeup is the end of the month.

Tired After Hours Planning

After a long day in the office, I foundcacquiet spot to catch up on some planning before heading home forcthe weekend. Looks like it us goung to be a tiring couple of monthscahead...

Ploughing on through 2026

It has been a pretty hectic first month of the year, and there is still much to do.

See Swansea and See Gower are now both up and running and I will be spending the rest of January getting content onto the See Glastonbury website...

February looks like it will be as equally busy for yours trully, so continue to watch this space for updates. More detail on what I will be up to in February 2026 to follow soon...

Tough haul this workweek, even though I spent it working from home. But I made it to the weekend, and even found time in the even to scribble some pages of another new ghost story. How manis is that I now have on the go?

Stirring the Pyewacket.Broth

Work on my Pywackett tale was fed by a dream that clung to my attention long after awakening from my slumber. The ideas fuelling the project are of an ageing vintage, but the idea of the tale and the character are still very much alive and the creative yeast added to the brew today should hopefully prove a ripe recipe and, one day, prove a fruitfuil endear...

Cruel Crustacean Cutoff Curtailed

I have delayed the deadline for GNS3 content to January 2026. Christmas deadlines are cruel.

Cracking On With Crabs

Working After Work

Amongst the Crabs Again

I managed to pull myself together this evening, deciding to crack on with my Guy N Smith ghost story for next year's zine:

Welsh Spirits

As regular readers of my Pixie-Led blog will already know, I am working on a series of ghost stories for my next fiction book. The stories will all feature Welsh settings, and a few of them (including the Snowdodian tale I started today) will be based on Celtic folktales that have sprung up in the countryside here...

Low

Off work as I struggle with the latest flare-up. Everything work-wise is an intermittable struggle these days and I need to take my mind, as well as my body, away from the place for a while to heal.

As usual at such times, the cosy gaming offered by Animal Crossing has proved successful in taking my my mind off my troubles, ans I even did a bit of writing in the evening for next year's Guy N Smith zine, GNS3..

Ghostly Crabs

Just finished my first draft of my crabby ghost story. Sat down with pen and paper this afternoon to jot down a few lines and was suddenly carried away until the tale reached its conclusion!

Swansea Library

I took the opportunity to work on my ghostly giant crabs story for the next Guy N Smith fanzine down in the city library this evening. This will be my last ever visit to this location as the council are selling the building and the library is closing in a couple of day as it prepares to move into the city centre :(

Surely this is/was the beautifully located central library in the whole of the country?

I did a fair bit of crab research, as well as writing a several pages of the story itself as the sun sunk lower through the trees that line Swansea Bay: