Category: Blogging

  • It’s In The Beans!

    It’s In The Beans!

    Anyone who knows me well, knows about my coffee addiction. It’s only a one-cup-a-day habit, but I can’t start without my morning cup-of-joe. And today I proved something that I had suspected for a long time: it’s in the beans. Let me explain… In June 2015, while on a short holiday, I stopped for a…

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  • Deadlines or No Deadlines, It’s Your Choice

    Most people meet deadlines head-on. I’m not one of them. Approaching deadlines are some kind of sub-conscious signal for me to drift off into another dimension, totally oblivious to whatever else has to be done. I had been working on an article since before COVID-19 hampered the travel plans of half the planet, or was…

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  • Where Will This New Challenge Take Me?

    The Ultimate Blog Challenge is a great tool for writers – as long as you keep writing. It doesn’t work if you skirt around it, doing everything but write. So where will this new challenge take me? Only time will tell. Having a glitch in the system on Day One was enough to derail this…

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  • The Wheels Fell Off But I’m Back, Did You Miss Me?

    The October Ultimate Blog Challenge started, and almost ended for me after just one blog post. I was there, then I wasn’t. Did you notice my absence? Did you miss me? After I posted the first blog on my site, I linked it on Facebook, read two other posts and made comments – as per…

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  • How COVID-19 Stole My Mojo!

    COVID-19 STOLE MY MOJO! And I want it back! I did the right thing and isolated like I was supposed to. When I went to the shops for the bare essentials, like Gelato, I wore a mask, scrubbed my hands, kept my social-distance, and sanitised everything! But for some reason, locking the doors to the…

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  • It Has Been A Long Time Between Drinks

    My last post, way back in February, was ‘One More for the Road’. And all I can say now is that it has been a long time between drinks. Today is the first day of August, and I regret not having come back to my blog since the beginning of the year. Back in January,…

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