Preparing the front room for the builders’ return with the new floorboards is a bigger task than we’d bargained for. The cement base for the tiled plinth around the fireplace seemed to have been built in several small chunks, and the old floorboards ran through the middle of one side, like an oak sandwich withContinue reading “Welcome a Board”
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Cutting Edge
It was an odd weekend. We’d been so focussed on arriving on time for my aunt’s funeral that I’d put to one side the fact that I’d volunteered for the committee for my local woodland trust, with the first meeting due for this Sunday. While I was on holiday, the call for all hands wentContinue reading “Cutting Edge”
Not quite Chicklit
I almost didn’t finish the story for the Globe Soup competition, but I don’t like being defeated by a writing challenge. The request was for a story with the theme “Knowledge is Power”, word limit 2,000 words, and I was put into the group asked to write in the genre Chicklit. I hate the term,Continue reading “Not quite Chicklit”
Nothing to see here…
No pictures, no huge progress, not much to see here. Move along, folks. Husband is getting spooked by the two large demons with black skin and red eyes and gold claws sitting on the workmate in the corner of the kitchen. He forgets they’re there until he walks in to make a tea or doContinue reading “Nothing to see here…”
Julia Chalkley 