(Photo: Pete Ashton) Yay! We got married. Then we went on honeymoon. Then we went back to work and time started going all fast again… So fast that we haven’t yet managed to start saying ‘thank you’ to people for gifts and so on. So this is the start of the post wedding admin. It’s […]
Continue ReadingI’m getting married in five weeks. Exciting, huh? Yes. Well, yes and no. I do seem to have got a lot more stressed about it than I was intending to. For someone who is usually quite laid back, I’ve had more “bridezilla moments” than I thought I would over the last few months. These are […]
Continue ReadingI recently found a story I wrote in secondary school that’s made me rethink the way I write. Or don’t write, as is more often the case. The story is called Prejudice. It’s the tale of a girl called Jo, who’s being bullied at school and decides to run away. (I know. Just… stop sniggering.) […]
Continue ReadingI’ve been answering questions on formspring.me this week, as I’ve found it a good way to “just keep writing” (which would be a new year’s resolution, if I did that kind of thing). The questions I’ve been asked so far have been quite thought-provoking. I’ve found myself writing a lot more little memoirs, on and […]
Continue ReadingYou might have noticed the whole NaBloWriMo writing-a-blog-post-every-day thing has fallen by the wayside somewhat. Well, I’ve decided to take some advice from every mother ever: “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all”. Writing every day would be good, but if it means personal posts every day, then I’d […]
Continue ReadingOoh, lasagne! Well, not quite. Okay, so it’s only day five and I haven’t actually got anything to blog about… already. I had great plans for this evening. I was going to get home from work and have a bite to eat, then my Flickr friend Steve was going to pick me up, to go […]
Continue ReadingThis photo is of my great grandfather, Ernest, with his sister Jessie and his brothers Frank, Sid and little Freddie. Of the older boys, I’m not sure which one’s which, but my guess is that Ernest is second from left. There are eight years between little Fred and Jessie, the oldest – so if he’s […]
Continue ReadingI’m getting married next year. It’s all been going swimmingly so far – we’ve booked a venue and a registrar, we have a vague idea of numbers; we’ve even booked the cake (hi, Jenny!). But the one thing that we haven’t been able to have a proper conversation about without big frowns, waving of hands […]
Continue ReadingArgh! Due to Other Important Writing Commitments it’s got really late, so I’m ashamed to say that, on only the second day of NaBloWriMo, this is me publishing some nonsense that I really only wrote for myself, and didn’t intend to use, in the rush to get something out before midnight. So please forgive me […]
Continue ReadingIt’s November tomorrow, and I haven’t blogged since June, and that is a Bad Thing. It actually got to the point where I didn’t feel that I could post anything, because it had been so long and the first post after such a break would have to be something really worth writing about. That’s nonsense, […]
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