40 Patches

I’m writing this just before making lunch, which would be fine were it not that I got up at 7am with a view to writing this post and a chapter.  Instead, I went out for a walk and coffee (smelling the jasmine flowers along the way; poetic) and spent an hour and a half working […]

I wrote chapter 26 this morning.  I was thinking to write the blog post but found myself in front of my steno instead of this laptop so it seemed silly to put it to one side in order to write this.  Chapter 26 is actually about my steno machine so I was probably a bit

I did my wardrobe cull (the pile in the photo being a charity pile that is now in a local British Heart Foundation charity shop), went for coffee, tidied my utensils drawers, then wrote another chapter, 25, before even writing a blog. Chapter 24 was about a mango dessert I had in Manila with my

How is it already 6th August and I’ve only written two of the 15 chapters I am hoping to write this month?  And those two I wrote on the same day in a burst of beginning-of-challenge brilliance. Today I am poised for a wardrobe cull, which I intend to start after writing this, though I