Category: Blog
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Wordle Up!
In January 2022 I wondered what all these green and yellow square boxes were that kept being posted on Twitter and so I discovered Wordle. I caught the bug like everyone else not least because I share my surname with the creator. After a couple of weeks, I was wondering if a Wordle League could…
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Twas the day before Christmas
Twas the day before Christmas, when all through the flat Not a creature was stirring, except for one lowly pratt, No stockings were hung by the chimney with care, No hopes that anybody soon would be there, When living so long, with nothing to show, At this time of the year, there is no inner…
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Failure to Launch
I finished writing ‘The Puzzle’ in May 2021 and have been trying to find an agent or publisher since. Fifty rejections – or in the majority of cases just silences – later and I entered it in the Readers’ Favorite 2023 Competition for an entry price of $119. The results were out today and whilst…
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We’re all going on a bummer holiday
My holiday officially starts today, as yesterday was a Bank Holiday, and I don’t think I have ever dreaded two weeks off work more. Not that I want to be working but it is going to be just like a work week without the work. Not going away. No money. In the flat alone as…
