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A Trip Down Memory Lane. . .with some of the bricks missing!
I took a little trip down memory lane last night, and realised it’s riddled with holes!My parents are re-decorating and are clearing out what they glibly refer to as ‘the spare bedroom’ – in the other...
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Lost for Words
When people find out that I am writing a novel (I suppose I can now say ‘have written’, since I finished the latest draft at the weekend) the first question they normally ask me is the most obvious one...
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Six Days Till Disney - The Meltdown
It’s a trip more than 18 months in the making. 18 months of planning and preparation, hopes and anticipation, making plans then changing them then changing them back again. Tickets have been bought,...
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Life AFTER Disney
It was a trip 18 months in the making. 18 months of planning, and dreaming, and planning some more. Hours and hours were dedicated to examining and re-examining every small detail of this trip,...
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What is Normal?
Today was my first Monday back at work after almost three weeks away – the beginning of my first full week of work after two weeks of fun and sun at Walt Disney World and a third week to recover....
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The Wizarding World of Harry Potter: a Muggle’s View
Orlando, Florida, 2009. Tarps and scaffolding mar the skyline of the Islands of Adventure theme park. Proclamations from something called the Ministry of Magic tell revellers to be patient as the...
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Sunday Book Club - The Hunger Games
I can often measure how much I enjoy a book by how quickly I read it. Sometimes I start to read a book and I’ll pick it up every now and again when I have some free time. I enjoy the story, I’ll...
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#amwriting
I am happy to report that I am writing again.In real terms it has only been a few months since I finished my novel and passed it with trembling hands to the first of my test readers. It has felt like...
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10 Reasons 2012 Will Be Awesome
I know it’s a little early to be thinking about next year, but if stores can start stocking Christmas goods in October then surely I’m allowed to indulge in a little positive forward thinking?I’m the...
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Mission: Christmas
Mission: Christmas. That was the title of the to-do list I wrote down today. It’s my list of everything that needs done not just before Christmas itself but before I can even think about putting up...
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Lacking in Life Skills? Not Anymore...
You might recall a previous pair of posts highlighting my rather woeful lack of anything resembling a common life skill. Sewing presented the most arduous challenge. Finding that thing that turns off...
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Something About Nothing
This week’s news roundup equates to exactly that – something about nothing. Or nothing about something. Or something like that.I know, it’s the most exciting blog post ever, right?Hmmm. On my mind...
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A Guilty Pleasure?
Amidst the usual news and nonsense on my Twitter feed today I stumbled across this post on the Los Angeles Times blog that reminded me of my third year English teacher. During a discussion of an...
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It was all going so well…
This was supposed to be a Writing Weekend. It was meant to be one of those wonderful weekends when two whole days are lost completely to working on my novel, ignoring anything and all around me - just...
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I Was Virtually There...
I had a new and peculiar experience today…conference by Twitter!After narrowly missing out on the Writers and Artists conference last year, I was looking forward to attending this year’s event and...
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A Day in the Life of a Procrastinator
Today I’m going to write. A lot. I’m going to write at least ten chapters, and they’re going to be AMAZING. They’re going to be epic. They’re going to be the best ten chapters anyone has ever...
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I mean it this time...
At last the long dark days of procrastination are at an end. This is going to be a Big Writing Weekend.No really, it is.I know the fact that it’s already lunch time and I haven’t actually started yet...
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If only they'd told me...
In the middle of a conversation with one of my oldest friends last night, I had an epiphany. It was one of those moments when you think to yourself “why couldn’t I have figured that out sooner?” If I...
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My Hunger Games Trilogy Pt 1 - The Wait
The moment is almost upon us…As anyone who has sat within earshot of me at any point in the last five months will know, The Hunger Games hits cinemas this week. To say I am excited would be something...
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My Hunger Games Trilogy Pt 2 - The Review
It was almost a case of life imitating art as I walked into the cinema last night to find a teenager with her feet planted firmly on my seat. Not sitting on the seat, just sitting with her feet on it....
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