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Living the dream … as always

Hello there, yes, still alive. Things are busy though and I have books to write. I’m determined to publish a bloody book this year if it’s the last chuffing thing I do (and at this rate, it probably will be). As a result I am working on two at once, the dementia memoir the first of the two sequels to Too Good To Be True. Yes, there are going to be two and Lord Vernon is in them as well. The first…

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The story of Spiny Norma ... and other things.

Hello there, yes, still alive. Things are busy though and I have books to write. I’m determined to publish a bloody book this year if it’s the last chuffing thing I do (and at this rate, it probably will be). As a result I am working on two at once, the dementia memoir the first of the two sequels to Too Good To Be True. Yes, there are going to be two and Lord Vernon is in them too. The first of…

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Thoughts …

It’s Mothering Sunday today, which is British Mother’s day, which is a church holiday, which is why Mother’s day is in May in every other English-speaking country. Mothering Sunday was originally the day when people went back to their ‘mother church’ or in other words, it was the one day a year posh people’s servants were allowed to go home and visit their families. I went to church, because I’m…

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In which MTM is a cockwomble, just for a change …

Last Monday was an interesting day. The kind of day that makes me wonder what the fuck is going on. Well, no, I mean, I end up thinking that most days—at the moment, I think that every time I watch the news for starters—but I digress, I am talking about on a personal level. Sometimes, though, I wonder if other people’s lives are a bit less chaos-tastic. This is probably no big surprise to you,…

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Bite me …

It’s been a while since I contacted anyone, I didn’t do any Christmas cards and things have been a bit higgledy-piggledy this Christmas and New Year. There are reasons but I can’t really talk about them. Suffice it to say there was a death in the family, so this Christmas was pretty much a rinse and repeat of last year. When stuff like this happens, I tend to write about it on my blog. There are…

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I’m not the pheasant plucker …

Well this is the week that was and was it a bit of a week? Oh yes it was. Also you’ll notice it’s not the weekend. I’m not sure how much I should say about some of this stuff so this one’s going under the radar. Bit of a mix of news this week. Good, bad, funny and sad. Such is life. Right. On we go. Stall at the ready, I was about to do a three day stint selling books at the St Edmundsbury…

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A kick-up the arse-starter

For a long time now, I’ve wanted talk about Kickstarter. This is slightly more a marketing post than an MTM update kind of post but … I just thought the information might be useful. I have only done one Kickstarter because it takes a lot of organising and as you know I am about as much use in an organisational capacity as a chocolate teapot. However, many of the ‘how I did’ articles I see about…

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The gap between intention and delivery ...

It would be my Mum’s 91st Birthday tomorrow and it feels surprisingly weird. For starters, I had a horrific dream that the ongoing stomach thing went comprehensively wrong while I was out with friends. I dreamt I had stomach cramps and thought nothing much about them, little realising that I was actually bleeding to death at a wine tasting. The final death scene, where I keeled over and hit the…

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I bore you about the aurora borealis and also bang on about other things …

Woah there, another massively busy week. We hit the ground running (from both ends) with a lovely bout of the Noro on Sunday night. I was fine by the end of Monday but it was still a right pain in the jacksy. Tuesday I kept things very low key because I was still feeling a bit delicate so I did a bit of admin though in that I wrote three reviews, which I’ve been meaning to write for ages. There…

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Crikey but it’s been a long time hasn’t it? I am well aware that this is not good for my readership and that most of you are long gone. However, life has been very busy. I suppose everyone gets back from holiday in September and has to catch up on the month and also do All The Things that those of them with kids were putting off over the summer. I confess to being no different, although, today I…

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The end … or … is it the beginning?

Where have I been? I’ve been selling a house. That’s where I’ve been. It’s been a hell of a ride. After needing a document from me which delayed everything, exchange on Mum’s house was delayed from the Wednesday until the Friday. On the Friday the people at the bottom of the chain, the ones who had put the most pressure on everyone else to hurry the fuck up, suddenly decided they needed an…

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General wittering … and cars

Woa, well that’s been a bit of a week. Things are hotting up in the sale of Mum’s house. We are hoping to complete by the end of August, fingers crossed. If anything it’s the lawyers that come with the auction house we used who are going to slow things up. It’s a shame. Whenever anything happens the companies we deal with always ring my brother because he’s the bloke but I’m the clued up one……

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Life laundry and other adventures

It’s been a busy few weeks, as you’ve probably guessed from the spectacular lack of blog posts, which is irritating because I had loads of stuff to say last week and thought I would carry it over. Needless to say, when I sat down this evening I couldn’t, for the life of me, remember what I was going to write about. Bum. Never mind, onwards and upwards. Two weeks ago, I won ticket sot the Self…

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More wittering…

It’s that time of the week and here I am, back like a bad smell. At the moment, I feel as if my blog is officially Not Funny anymore. And at the same time, not poignant either. I hope I’ll get back in the swing of making it interesting soon. In the meantime, talking of bad smells … At the market today I couldn’t help picking up a cheesy bargain. A massive Epoisse cheese was going for a song from…

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Stuff

A mixed bag this week so on we go. On health Because I have French blood so if you ask how I am I’m going to smecking well tell you. Before you hesitatingly raise a hand, first finger extended in an ‘excuse me’ gesture and start to explain that you didn’t actually ask how I was at all, rest assured I’m going to tell you, anyway. Once again, I have been riding the vomit comet this week, although…

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Meh.

OK here’s a TMI alert for everyone. This is far too much information, very much TMI. If that’s not your thing, please feel free to pass on this one. The rest of you… enjoy. Last night I was unfortunate enough to have yet another visit from Cardinal Chunder and Mr S’hitattak. Jeez what is going on? Actually no, let’s stop me there, because I think I may know. After the Stomach Bug That Would Not…

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Let’s try kindness…

This week has been hectic although looking back on it, it’s less that I’ve had a hectic week and more that, after last week’s visitation from Cardinal Chunder and friends I was definitely not firing on all cylinders for most of the time. I finally got back to the gym on Thursday, even though I was still feeling a little ropy. It did leave me a little time to browse the internet more than I should…