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Apparently it’s Galentine’s Day today. Hands up everyone who’s heard of Galentine’s Day? I certainly hadn’t. So of course, off I pootled to find out what it’s all about, and it’s something to do with showing your appreciation for your female friends. Well, I appreciate all of my friends, but here’s a shout-out for my gal-friends anyway!  Thursday started better than Wednesday ended but I did still want to finish sorting out some sort of social media content calendar.

Another lazy start to the day yesterday as I headed off for my last (hopefully) appointment for the light therapy treatment. The dogs hadn’t kept us awake half the night, so we were feeling quite relaxed. When we got to the hospital, it was rammed. It really was. The worst we’ve seen it over the past 3 months. A train of cars was just circling around the car park, coming out to go back in again.

I had a nice, leisurely start to the day on Tuesday. The poet was up and away early and I was able to go back to bed…until the dogs decided they not only wanted out but they also wanted feeding. We went back to bed and managed almost an hour before we were up again. But it was a nice start to the day.

Friday Friday started as usual with my dirty cuppa and my quiet hour. I didn’t get any reading done, and my reading hour does seem to have slipped off the map. But at least I had a leisurely start to the day followed by a bit of a soggy play with the dogs in the garden before we went off for my hospital appointment (28 of 30…).

It’s publication day today for my VERY SHORT standalone SHORT STORY Valentine’s Date.  The story was previously published in Twee Tales Twee and Twee Tales More, and it currently appears in Words Worth Reading: Issue Six.  You can buy Valentine’s Date here and Words Worth Reading: Issue Six here. And you can buy all of my books here.  This post appears on Words Worth Writing and Patreon.

This short story will only be available on this platform for 7 days. Petra was on a roll. “Do we have to come boring Christmas shopping with you? Do I?” she whined. Molly sighed. Her little girl was already growing up too quickly, already losing the joy of childhood. Oh, she knew it would happen eventually, knew it would come one day.

Wednesday We had an unexpected sprinkling of snow on Tuesday night, which was nice to watch. It didn’t last long, though, as it was very wet and very quickly turned into sleet. By 9pm, it had all washed away and it was raining, but it was very thick rain. The dogs let us sleep until 7:30am on Wednesday, but they were ready for their breakfast by 8am.

We can never get enough of Ian Hislop on these pages, and on Tuesday he was on LBC with Andrew Marr talking – what else? – Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Mandelson and much else besides. In particular, what w...

The weekend Saturday was tied up with just shopping and more workshop catch-up, and we took the dogs for a short walk. On our way home from the supermarket, we went to buy bird food, and when we got back the poet topped up the bird feeders and the food buckets.  When he came in, he moved my new calendar down on a wall in the study.

Thursday I had a really bad start to the day on Thursday. A pain in my side woke me up at around 2:30am and it took some time to get comfortable and fall back to sleep. I didn’t disturb any of the dogs, although I did ask them very quietly if they wanted out. The poet carried on snoring the whole time, but he was tired after a long drive home earlier in the day.

I ummed and ahhed a bit about February’s workload and whether or not to include some new short stories. I knew I was already committed to one (12 stories in 12 months), but could I realistically manage many more than that? In the end, I decided I could write another 2 entire stories, revise a third, and start a new one, the new one a novella.

It’s publication day today for my standalone SHORT STORY Deadly Deeds in Morecambe Bay. The story, featuring Mavis Braithwaite, also appears in Words Worth Reading: Issue Six. You can buy Deadly Deeds in Morecambe Bay here and Words Worth Reading: Issue Six here. And you can buy all of my books here.

Topical & evergreen ideas to write about that editors want to see

I got the January schedule pretty much spot on, but then I didn’t have a lot of spare time in which to do any extras.  I didn’t quite get the Patreon posts up and running until the end of the month, and I only invoiced for one client edit. Ah, yes, I heard from that former Upwork client and he became a current Upwork client again.

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