NaNoWriMo 2015

I had so many plans for this years NaNo, you tube videos, blog posts etc, I should have known I wouldn’t have the time to do this, but I am optimistic each year. Well the image says it all, I was worried from the first day that I would fail again as I could never…

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67%

19 out of 31 = 67% So at the beginning of May I set myself a may challenge, to write on this blog everyday. On the whole I managed to get something down, although towards the end I began to slip more. To say I wasn’t really posting anything beforehand this has worked as it…

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Shopping and Shoes!

So I went shopping today with the wife and 10 year old daughter…… I am not the best person to go shopping with I have the attention span of a child when they are walking round looking at clothes. The ten year old daughter is like the typical woman, picking up pair after pair of…

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19th June 2017 – Weather

I live in the UK so we don’t really get the extremes of weather other countries get so I feel a bit cheeky saying this but, god it’s hot! Woke up so many times last night trying to sleep in 27 degree heat. Windows open, covers off and it’s still so warm. I love it…

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Bookshops

Went to a carboot the other day and there is a permanent book/video shop there is a shed of some sort. It hasn’t been open when I have been before but was this time so i called in. Loads of books, looks like an old fashioned bookshop, I liked it. Plenty of books in the…

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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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Google and the Pi

I often remark to my grown up kids (18,19) at the lack of skills with computers in their generation, when I was their age I was playing around in DOS and writing silly little programs in basic, that is the kind of thing that got me into wanting to work with computers. If the PC…

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Posh cafes

I miss the good old days when there was a local cafe that you could go in and get normal English food, for a reasonable price. Today these cafes like to think they are something they are not. The town I live in isn’t that big and yet it has a rediculus amount of charity…

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The Writers Bureau

I got tired of the endless Procrastination and the debilitating self doubt so I have signed up with the Writers Bureau for the Comprehensive Writing Course, I know some people do not like that sort of course but when people are useless like me at getting in gear and need the kick up the butt…

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