Game on: instructional writing

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 …

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.  I’m writing in bed.  It’s possibly my favourite place to write.  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.  It’s still February.  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.  I think I learned further things in the process of choosing what to write about.  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. …