I’ve got into a habit of writing a round-up piece at the end of the month. Because I’m on catch-up, fitting in posts to dates after the event (confessions, eh?), I thought I’d slot one in mid-month instead. For a change. There’s a whole load of instructional writing out there on the web. I’ve read …
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Game on: playing with worms
I think you know by now that I like the odd pun, a spot of alliteration. So when I say playing with worms, it’s really about playing with words. There. Â Just to reassure you. Playing with words may not feel like playing a game – and in a sense, it’s not. But wordplay is still …
Eco audit: taking your pulse
Back to the blog tinkering. Trying to create a bridge between what I wrote about in my first few years of blogging – and what I’m writing about now. Cue a certain amount of moving posts around, and developing new categories: including an eco one. I’d been thinking about an eco theme for a while …
Eco audit: to heat or not to heat
I’ll confess this now. Â I’m writing in bed. Â It’s possibly my favourite place to write. Â And, when you get the luxury of the house to yourself, you get to do what you want a little more. But another reason for writing in bed is because it’s cold. Â It’s still February. Â Snow is coming and going. …
Cereal packets and serious fiction: reading the world around us
A month of ‘learning from books’ comes to a close. Â I think I learned further things in the process of choosing what to write about. Â An unexpected bonus. I normally write a ‘content post’ right up to the end of the month – but I’m sneaking in a bit of reflection on the month instead. …
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