40 Patches

“The End”.  I’ve only gone and finished!!!   It is extraordinarily satisfying, at page 303, to write “The End”.  Actually, it’s probably fewer pages than that as I did re-write chapter 39 (I spent ages writing the first 39 but it turns out I only stenoed three pages) and I also re-wrote another chapter recently and […]

I have stenoed chapter 39.  It’s one of my worst; I think I chose a duff memory trigger.  I will be re-writing chapter 39 with a different memory trigger that I can write more about.  I had decided to write about the handmade knife I chose and was given for my 40th birthday (I “bought”

I re-wrote chapter 37 as it was directionless.  I then stenoed chapter 38, which is also not great.  Again, all done before “needing” my warm-up blog.  Chapter 38 is about my connection between the smell of jasmine flowers and Beirut, unexpectedly one of my top three favourite places to visit.  There is likely to be

Chapter 37 is fairly badly written but it was stenoed before this blog so this post is just to highlight that there are now only three chapters remaining to steno and that chapter 37 was about fish tacos in Mexico.  This photo is of unbelievably good ceviche for about 75p.

Having stenoed chapter 36 this morning, another pre-blog chapter written, I have just worked out that my August target of writing 15 chapters has been achieved, with half the month still to go.  That means there are only four more chapters to write and then the steno element of this writing process will be finished

Fuelled, possibly, by half a bag of “Sour Squirms” (sour sugar-coated jelly sweets) and stenoing while still on a squirm-high (novices; they say four sweets is one serving.  As if), I have stenoed not one but two more chapters.  The blog is redundant today, I am all about over-achieving without the blog as a helpful