Me and Sam – a journey

Sam the camera came into my life in May 2010 and changed it in ways that I could never have imagined. All I knew was that changing over to digital would mean I could post pictures online without having to wait till I finished a film and got it developed, and my friends would stop [...]

Finding stuff I’d lost

It’s over two years since I finished the counselling course and I’m still finding stuff that I’d lost back then. I had no idea what that course would cost me, and am still finding out.

I’ve gone back to work on my novel

Have restarted working on my novel, which has been gathering virtual dust for over four years. I’ll be posting it bit by bit on my virtual writer’s notebook. Unedited – editing is for later. If you’d like to join me on this journey and read the rough draft as it develops, here’s a link to [...]

Today I did!

I joke a lot about being a procrastinator, but it is a serious battle and I’m therefore pausing to pat myself on the back: today I did something that I’ve never done before – I posted all my seasonal greeting cards in time for the second class post deadline. It’s always tended to be a last minute job, I’ve always needed to use first class stamps because of posting so late, and here I am on 16th December able to say it’s done!

Husband was very impressed, and I found myself explaining to him how it worked: I was so not wanting to do it, that I did it just so that I could get this task out of the way, so that I could put it behind me.

But hearing myself say that, I recognise that this is something I’ve never said before in my whole life. I’ve always