Pointless and Dying Phrases

Pointless and Dying Phrases

Claire and I often watch Pointless in the afternoon. It’s a quiz show hosted by Alexander Armstrong. The format is to try and choose an answer that is the most obscure correct answer. One of the rounds today were clues to phrases which are rapidly dying out. We were...
Corsham Writers, Raymond Chandler, & Duck Soup

Corsham Writers, Raymond Chandler, & Duck Soup

I attended my second meeting of the Corsham Writers Workshop on Thursday. As with my first meeting, it was a delight to chat with other writers. There were a couple of writers new to the group, and a long standing member who hadn’t been at the first meeting I...
Facebook Friends and Profile Hacking

Facebook Friends and Profile Hacking

Brian Feinblum gave me some book publicity coaching last year. He asked me how many facebook friends I had, to which my reply was around twenty. “That’s hopeless, you need thousands’, he replied. He also gave me some tips on how to achieve that, which I have been...
Wordle Strategy

Wordle Strategy

Claire and I start most days with the New York Times Wordle puzzle. Then we move onto Quordle. Finally, after completing Sudoku, I feel my brain is ready for writing or researching. Judging by my facebook friends, Wordle is very popular. I post my results and then my...
Easter, Oak, Golf, and the Garden

Easter, Oak, Golf, and the Garden

My last post concerning oak was way back on 5th September last year. That post was inspired by the oak we had bought to replace the rotten legs on our garden swing. Naturally the swing in question is a bench type of swing, not the children’s playground variety....