12th June 2017 – A Facebook rant!

I have a love/Hate relationship with a few websites none more so than Facebook. It’s one of those sites that people generally either love or hate, I do both. I think it is brilliant for keeping in contact with friends and family that you might not speak to very often, sharing pictures and keeping up…

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Results day

Well its results day for my kids, and i’m dissapointed again. I love my kids but I can’t sem to drill in how bad things are in the real world, they just do the bare minimum and then when they fail say things like, “I don’t know what I can do” What can I do…

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The Madness that is 118 118

When I was a kid it cost 10p to use a BT phone box and there were not mobile phones, if you needed directory enquirers to find a number you didn’t need to take out a mortgage to do so. Today since the privatization there are now several companies offering this service. the most prevalent…

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Tv Procrastination

I can’t seem to stop myself, every time I finish a series instead of using that time to write or do my web design course I start again. The latest one I am watching is suits, don’t get me wrong when I am watching it I don’t mind as it is a brilliant show, but…

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Preptober

It’s 23:03 on a Sunday night, 2nd October. It was a writing meet day so I got quite a bit done this morning in Darlo. I didn’t get much done once home but I have a start now. Preptober is the name given for the month of October leading up to National Novel Writing Month….

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Statement of purpose

As part of my writing journey I have finally started to work through one of the “how to” books I have owned for a long time. One of the things the author says is a good thing to do is to come up with a statement of purpose, something to inspire me to carry on,…

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Baby Names Rant!

I can be quite an opinionated person, for those of you that know me you are probably rolling your eyes now…. I was reading a news item in the November copy of Writing Magazine called Name Dropping. It was talking about Charles Dickens giving his characters strange last names and then talking about celebs calling…

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I have a problem…

I was sent this image from the amazing How I met your mother tv show recently in response to the number of books I am buying, I don’t blame anyone for thinking that I needed an intervention, even if it is a joke. I have loved reading most of my life and it is extremely…

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How to get regular

I know what you’re thinking, plenty of fibre…. but no that not what I am referring to. Apparently you only need to do something for 3 weeks for it to become regular, so I am going to try it. Although at this point I am not sure what to try. Blogging Writing Prose Or maybe…

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