Winter Picture
Just outside the village where I live the town leisure centre sits, I went up there with my camera a week or so ago and took some pictures, this is one of them. Next the the Leisure Centre there is a farm and in the middle of the field there is an old rundown house,…
The Writers Workout, Christian Katz
This is a book I got from Helmsley last year, another tool I have decided I can use in my quest to do more writing this year. It is 366 tips, tasks and techniques from your writing career coach. As it is a nice round number I am going to use this weekend to catch…
Getting in the zone
I really would love to know why 11:30 seems to be the sweet spot for me. This is the time when i start looking at what i should be doing with writing…. not the entire night leading up to this point but the point where i should be thinking of going to bed. This is…
The decline in Computing in schools
I was reading the news today on the BBC and noticed their article about the falling numbers in students completing the Computing qualification. It seems that in the last few years there has been a steady decline in the numbers of students completing this course. It’s strange to think that when the Computing course was…
Stand Up Desk :)
I was browsing the Pulse app on my tablet and I came on an article from the IT blog It was about changing your workplace into the stand up desk concept. The idea is that when working standing up you are more productive, it seems like a strange idea and yet part of me wishes…
Nearly mid year…..
Well…. the last post on this blog was 6 months ago. It was my new year post and I had so many dreams. Admittedly the same dreams I have each year and each year I don’t really get too far into them. So far this year I have done little writing progress, read less than…
6th January 2024 – Preston Park
I decided that this year we will be doing some set days out each month to work my way through a list of places Trace would like to go. It starts with Preston Park which is near Yarm. This is a place we like to go to as once you pay the ticket covers the…
Holiday Blues
It is coming to the end of the holiday to Flamingo Land, I will soon have to go back to work and settle back into my routine of work work and more work….. I have managed to not stick to anything I said I was going to do for new year, following the advice of…