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Sunday, 30 March 2025

Saturday, 29 March 2025

A Sudden Flush of Pink

A Change of Protagonist

Struggling with my own deadline, I have decide to turn the second draft of my Guy N Smith themed story from a 10k story in a 1k rewrite by changing the narrator of the first person text. It is the only option if I'm going to get the tale ready in time for the Guy N Smith zine...


Morning Eclipse



Friday, 28 March 2025

Tree Shadows

 These tree shadows spreading over the houses on my journey to and from work each weekday have been catchin my eye lately:








Thursday, 27 March 2025

Time 2 Play

I guess it's that time again...



Norther Lights over Swansea

Tuesday, 25 March 2025

Set for Sound

I put the last day of my holiday to good use by dragging my x2 CD shelves up to our bedroom, complete with our CD player.



It has been a nice long weekend. I have got a lot done.

Monday, 24 March 2025

Out of this World!

Lovely day off,

with another day off tomorrow. At peace 😎


A Day in the Garden!

A rare day off work combined with in ever rarer warm, sunny day. Which meant just one thing - a day in the garden!




Sunday, 23 March 2025

Come In

I have finally completed the first draft of my Guy N Smith. It ended suddenly, out of the blue and took me by surprise. I just need to tidy the thing up now...

Furry Paws

Trying to work on an introduction to one of my favourite reads.


Saturday, 22 March 2025

Gardening

I finally managed to clear the chicken coop from the garden today! 


Whilst I was dismantling and burning the construction, Mrs E busied herself by adding a small wildlife pond to the garden:



The oustanding plant of the moment has to be our cherry tree, both in is large and bosai forms:


Haunting Ghost Stories

I picked up this hard cover book this week for just £3.59, and that included p&p!

As well as containing some classic ghostly tales, the book contains some fascinating illustrations, in colour as well as black and white.