Last year, newbies to the event, we paid for three days camping, a weekend pass … and a vague idea of “buying a boat” at “Some point” in a “distant future”. Our minds were blown away, from the initial decision to have a narrow boat to visiting the broadbeams and knowing there and then what […]
Category Archives: Family Life
Saying Goodbye
posted by MoreThanACat
To three camping stalwarts today: our Elsan toilet, the camping fridge, and the old brown coolbox. All have done stirling service. None owe us anything. While two of them – for certain – cost us nothing, coming free as they did with Shara the van. Shara went to the big campsite in the sky 5 […]
Burning question
posted by MoreThanACat
Six people give an account of a dinner party. One member of the party doesn’t mention one of the guests at all during his account. Why not?
Jan
04
January Blogging Challenge: Imaginary Friend
posted by MoreThanACat
“If Sarah wasn’t a writer,” OH said over dinner, “I’m sure she’d be schizophrenic.” As you can imagine, Mother was horrified. A brussel sprout clattered back onto her plate. A dead ringer for Her Majesty in a younger day, she called on that to deliver a stinging retort. It involved the words “bloody” and “idiot”. […]
Dec
04
Weekly Photo Challenge: Relax
posted by MoreThanACat
When you need a massage, there’s nothing like one from your bestie 🙂 for more takes on this week’s challenge click here
In the wee small hours
posted by MoreThanACat
I woke to the sound of a heavy breathing dog. He had moved. His fan (a dyson – yes I know, spoilt) was no longer cooling him down. For my own sanity, I sorted it out: until he moved again. Then with morpheous ignoring my pleas, I went to read the BBC news and catchup […]
Jul
24
50 before 50 – the rules
posted by MoreThanACat
Simples… I have to post proof that the challenges left to do have been completed. I have to blog the memory of the challenges already completed…
Recent Posts: Sarah E Smith
A Line In The Sand
One of my characters in Widowhood of Spiders (book 2 of Symington’s adventures) is angry. So angry in fact he is in danger of breaking the unwritten code of the criminal world: twice. Not only is he in the process of killing a policeman; he is doing it in front of witnesses – not bound […]
Engineering Rows
This week I’ve been doing a lot of thinking rather than a lot of writing. Being stuck in traffic is like that. And I’ve been thinking about my victim. Well one of them. A chap by the name of Sir Martin Hamblebee. In my head he’s a nasty piece of work. A bully. A pompous […]
5 Questions for Authors: Ann Wuehler
Until recently, all I knew about Ann was that she wrote for the same publisher as I do (KGHH), and lives in the same state as my cousin (Oregon). So I asked her to give me a bit of a biography, which was a good thing because her writing credentials are epic. Make me feel […]
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Time’s War
