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Thursday, March 26, 2026

The Writer's Life: Why Writers See the World Differently

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  An idea crossed my mind. Writers often move through life with a slightly different perspective from everyone else. It is not necessar...
Monday, March 23, 2026

Did You Know… Life In 1960s/70s Britain: You Could Only Watch Three Television Channels?

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  BBC1, BBC2 and ITV  — and sometimes nothing at all. In 1960s and ’70s Britain , television was a very different experience. Today, there a...
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Did You Know… Life In 1960s/70s Britain: You Had to Put Money Into a Coin Meter for Electricity?

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For many households in Britain there was a time when paying for electricity did not involve monthly bills, online accounts, or direct debits...

Hands In The Dirt - Notes From a Vegetable Garden: From March 2025 (Extract)

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A few early Spring entries from my 2025 gardening journal, Hands In The Dirt — Notes From a Vegetable Garden. Now available on Amazon. Monda...
Sunday, March 15, 2026

The Writer's Life: You Can Never Truly Retire From Your Passion

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  We live in a world that often treats retirement as the end of productivity. We step away from the world of work, close the door, and are e...
Monday, March 9, 2026

Self-Publishing: Amazon's Dominance in the Book Market - What it Means for Self-Published Authors

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    When Amazon first launched in 1995, it described itself as “the world’s biggest bookshop”. In 2026, that description is not far from th...
Saturday, March 7, 2026

Self-Publishing: Amazon's New Update for Kindle Users: From January 2026, Readers Can Download DRM-free Kindle books

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  In January of this year, Amazon made an important change to how books could be downloaded from their online platform. It's now possibl...
Thursday, March 5, 2026

Now Available on Amazon: Hands In The Dirt - Notes From a Vegetable Garden - How To Grow Your Own Food

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  Hands In The Dirt — Notes From A Vegetable Garden , publication date, 2026. Gardening and growing food, like writing, is a passion of min...
Monday, March 2, 2026

Idiom of the Day - Burning the Midnight Oil

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  Have you ever said, or heard, the words, “… last night I was burning the midnight oil ”? Burning the midnight oi l, or to burn the midn...
Friday, February 27, 2026

Idiom of the Day (but not every day) Back to the Drawing Board

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  We have all been there. You try something new. You plan it carefully and put in all the effort. And then it fails. So, it’s back to the dr...