You may remember on the 6 May I posted about (then) Captain Tom Moore who decided to raise £1000 for NHS Charities to help fight coronavirus by completing 100 laps of his garden on his walker before the end of April when he turned 100 (10 laps of the 25m garden a day). You can…
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500 posts (or is it?)
Time to celebrate my… 500 blog posts does seems a lot, but the thing is, I used to blog on blogger (my first post was 15 October 2008) – I closed it when I created this little corner of cyberspace (24 March 2017). If I include those posts I am at 1013. What is interesting…
Writing Retreat Cruise #3
Continuing my report of my writing retreat cruise (read #1 here). Obviously the purpose of the cruise was to write. We’d wanted to do a retreat where none of us had to spend a lot of time shopping, cooking, cleaning… you know how it goes. We worked out a cruise was the best option. Everything…
School’s back…kinda
Today my eldest Barbarian (Heckle) starts back at school after 6 weeks of closed schools. Thanks to a gradual start to face-to-face schooling, Jeckle won’t start back until 2 June (after 8 weeks away). Both Barbarians are excited to be going back to school. Online learning just isn’t the same. Hopefully everything will go well…
Fictional character I’d like to be
In 2020 I’m answering a list of 52 journal questions. Read about it here. What fictional character would you most like to be?My younger teen self would have wanted to be Hermione Granger (Harry Potter by JK Rowling) Hermione owns her geekness. She sticks up for herself. She’s tough. Empathetic. She has amazing abilities and…