Norwich 2025

Yearly we go down to Norwich to visit our friend who lives there. It’s a nice weekend of chilling with mates and having a few drinks. It was just me and Pauyl travelling down this time, has been for the last few years. Our friends can be flakey. This year we went to the buffet…

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At the Beach

Me and the wife like to go to the beach. Each time I go I signs like the one below, and each time there are people walking their dogs on the beach! Now we are dog people but it annoys the hell out of me when I see this. The beaches are closed to dogs…

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18 Year old inventor

Sometimes I read articles that just make my head spin…… I have a 18 and 19 year old in the house and to be honest its an achievement if they can get out of bed (i’m exaggerating of course) but seriously they are normal teenagers. Justin Beckerman is 18 and yet has build several fully…

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Fail!

I’m not finished yet, I will still try. But I think I am going got fail! But…. there is too much going on at home with one of my kids at the moment and this is getting in the way of the NaNo dream, I vowed to get it done this year and I can…

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Procrastination

2 1/2 months since the last post… I named this blog well. Looking back through the posts it’s a lot of me making plans that don’t seem to go anywhere. Wish I could work out a way to get this done.

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Accountability

Nanowrimo season rapidly approaches, as well as planning for this to ensure I have a good outline to complete a novel this year I am working on a small short story project for Christmas. Something I have also been meaning to get done for many years. To try and help with the planning phases for…

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Linux Commands – Nslookup

I have been “learning” Linux for some time now, but to get myself more familiar I have installed it on a Laptop I have and another pc. One of my file servers has also been installed with the command line only version, this is to force me to learn the commands and then to remember…

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Make or break

As usual I have fallen behind, don’t seem to get as much time on a night as I would like and when I am writing I cannot seem to quiet my inner voice telling me what I am writing is crap! Not the story, just the writing I am not happy with it. This weekend…

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2022 Goals

When I was looking at the year ahead in December I was, as usual, up for planning and making grand goals that I would achieve in this new year, new me, new life. Blah blah blah. my goal was: Writing 2 Weekly Blog 12 Short Stories Xmas Story NaNo April/Nov Shattered Worlds Novel Fitness Gym…

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17th June 2017 – Just in case

I have done so well so far and almost finished a post for today but didn’t get it done and I’m not at my conputer now. But…. just came out for a drink with friends sonjust in case I don’t get to finish it later this is my post for the day. Just to make…

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