Category Archives: personal blog

We decided to go for a walk along the waterfront at Stokes Bay. Ever since the COVID lockdowns, I have carried very little cash. That can be a bit of a nightmare when it comes to paying for car parking. The council have tried several things and luckily just about every car park in andContinue reading “1220 – Out for a walk”

I really feel quite bad. The last two nights have been pretty pathetic in terms of post quality. I apologise for that. What makes it even worse, is that tonight I have again left it too late to do a reasonable post. I can assure you that this is equally frustrating for me.

It’s 2345, and I nearly forgot the post, and as I don’t really have anything to write about, I’m afraid it’s another short one.

I’m sorry, it’s a very short post tonight. Just a placeholder. My brain has gone to sleep, and. I can’t think of anything to write

I would have gone for a walk this morning, but was raining so I didn’t bother. I had a couple of things I needed to do in town at lunchtime, and my plan had been to take an extended lunch break, and walk into town. But it was raining, so that didn’t happen, but IContinue reading “1216 – Rain”

I went for a quick morning walk down to the waterfront. I wanted to see what was happening with the roadworks at Crossways. From the picture you can see that things are progressing. There’s a sign that was put up around June time, which said the roadworks would take 50 weeks. I haven’t really workedContinue reading “1215 – A walk into Town”

One of my readers, Clive, commented on yesterday’s post in response to my question regarding using real places in fictional writing. It was a good question. His response was a slight departure, suggesting writing fiction using models of real people. I have to say that I would stay well away from that. He was correctContinue reading “1214 – Fictional real places”

This is one grumpy cat, but only she knows why. Just to finish off the box set thing. We ordered, for a quite reasonable price the DVD’S for seasons one to five from the great provider. They arrived today, and we’ve started watching – excellent. I’ve set Elayne a mission; when she goes into aContinue reading “1213 – the box set, and a question”

Last night I told you about a boxset we had only just started watching (8 seasons, 96 episodes), we had got to around the 7th episode of 13 in season one when the streaming service flashed up a message saying that the whole series was coming to the end of its run and would beContinue reading “1212 – What happened next? (see 1211)”

Earlier this week we found a new boxset to watch. Like all of the box sets, we wonder how it is going to develop. In this case, we were hooked by the third episode. A couple of episodes later, we were slightly disturbed to see a message flash up on the screen saying that theContinue reading “1211 – binge watching”