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I have both surprised and impressed myself that today’s chapter is 30, marking the last chapter of my 30s, the three-quarter mark.  I am also currently ahead of my target to write 15 chapters in August.  I ended up writing chapter 29 about karums, a Latvian sweet treat.  They are not my favourite food but […]

Chapter 29 will be the eighth of fifteen chapters for August, so I’m pretty much half way on 10th August.  I feel much more positive about reaching my target of 15 chapters this month now.  I don’t usually “make” myself write on weekends but I know there are days ahead when I probably won’t write

I will, I will, I will write this and move straight into stenoing chapter 28 rather than fannying around all day like I did yesterday.  In part, I am driven by the fact a friend is coming over for lunch and the likelihood of my writing a chapter in the evening is extremely slim. Today’s

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