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We have been back to real life for some days, though not really real life, because my honey was still off work, and we’ve returned in the middle of the school holidays, so basically we’ve all been in our pyjamas since Wednesday night.

I have short stories to write, many of them, and ( Read more... )

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I’ve spent the last several weeks sinking into a slow swamp of rewrites, but I can finally see a glimpse of sunshine, and if you don’t record the good days, somehow they get forgotten faster than anything else.

So today I:

edited seven chapters of Book 2, including three really ( Read more... )

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I can tell the end of The Creature Court is on the horizon, because I’ve spent the day being hit in the head by other books. Important, exciting future books which are not yet. The trouble is, now I’ve answered the last questions about Book 3, my brain is telling me that the job ( Read more... )

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Jem is growing up. In the last week she’s gone from slithering over soft toys to flat out crawling, head high, getting into everything. Which is awesome and exciting, but it’s amazing how fast in parenting the ‘oh wow’ moment goes to ‘oh shit’ as you realise ( Read more... )

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It’s the end of my ‘holiday’ March and I’m exhausted - between our big room swap and a family emergency which has led to many visitors, I’ve basically been cleaning house for a week. Seriously. How do real housewives do it? How did housewives cope before podcasts? And will I ever ( Read more... )