Yes, it's that time of year again!

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4 NOV: Use Your Common Sense Day: Is common sense common?
If common sense were common a lot of accidents wouldn't happen. Also, how many times do we do something and wonder why we did them - little things, like taking something out of the oven, knowing it's hot and still managing to touch it? Too often our common sense is away with the fairies.

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This week's TheFridayFive questions, since it's NaNoWriMo this month

1. Where do you get ideas/inspiration for your writing?
Quite often I'm working for prompts from challenges, or exchanges with suggestions from the recipient.  Sometimes I'll want to follow up an idea I've had in a previous work, or there'll be a request as to what happens next ( Read more... )

The lowest number of words for a month this year, but 8,250 still brings me to 122,600 and so past my main goal of 120,000 for the year and with a reasonable chance of reaching 135,000.

Reflecting the lower number I have less to share, but begin with Allbingo Fall Fest for which I wrote The Witch, the Ghost and the Hound from Hell which is a ( Read more... )

I finished knitting the sleeveless cotton top in hydrangea coloured stripes.  I'm very pleased with the result.

( October 2024 )

My TBL is at 15 titles, probably the lowest it's been for a couple of years!

Maigret's Memoirs by Georges Simenon read by Gareth Armstrong.  Different from the usual stories, with Maigret himself providing some of his own history and explaining how he is different from he character described by M. Simenon.  Learning a bit about Maigret's ( Read more... )

Nothing from FutureLearn - I did start one course but abandoned it after a few days as, although I would have been very interested in the subject, the presentation did absolutely nothing for me.

OpenLearn

Approaching Language, Literature and Childhood A new course, looking at children's books and how they have changed, and improved, from the ( Read more... )

21 OCT: Reptile Awareness Day: When’s the last time you saw a live snake? What was your reaction?
To continue counting the number of Brownies we had walking through the reptile house.  Not that I thought any of them would be eaten, but it would have been very easy to lose one or two.  They were in uniform, but it was a wet day, so they were all ( Read more... )

6 books, due partly to being on holiday and reading in the evenings.

The Glimpses of the Moon by Edmund Crispin
The tenth and last book of Gervase Fen, although there is one published later that is short stories, many of which date from an earlier period.  This book was written 24 years after the previous one and isn't a patch on the earlier books ( Read more... )

12 OCT: International Migratory Bird Day: If you had to fly south for the winter, where would you go?
I'd like to visit New Zealand.

13 OCT: Silly Sayings: What’s a common saying or axiom or proverb that you just don’t believe?
'The elephant in the room'. It's something no-one wants to mention, although it's on everyone's mind. Seriously, someone' ( Read more... )