Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, I have gone from a scribbler wondering whether she was allowed to call herself a writer to a self-published author in less than two weeks. Yes, my first-ever ebook is now available in all good Amazon stores (and at Smashwords too)! I’d been thinking for some time of [...]
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Anyone who’s dropped by since last Sunday probably won’t have noticed the arrival of a new widget at the end of the righthand sidebar. There it is, lurking down at the bottom, apparently of even less importance than the Scribblings archive (which I plan to get rid of one day when I have something better [...]
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I’ve been playing with Pinterest this week. I’m sure everyone knows what this is by now – the latest social media craze that’s taking the online world by storm, the best thing since the last best thing, etc., etc. A fascinating factoid: apparently, 80% of Pinterest users are female. I wonder how that compares with [...]
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With the clocks going forwards last night, I’m back to creeping to my desk in the dark in the mornings, for a while at least. I’ve missed that over the last couple of weeks; the friendly glow of my laptop screen in the gloom, and having nothing to see through the window, helps me focus [...]
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This blog is often the only way Hubby gets to know what I’m up to, shut away in my office all day with only Snofru and an occasional visit from Baby Bagpuss for company. This week, he asked me whether I’ve stopped posting at my other blog, The Vegan Cat-Lover. The answer, dear Hubby, is [...]
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Right after publishing last week’s post, I put up the first content on my WIP’s website. You can’t see it yet, and nor would you want to – other than that single meagre paragraph, the site is host to nothing more than a few Amazon links, some rather nicely designed social media buttons (not mine) [...]
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What a lot of tennis fans we have here! When I mused about grades of fame and the royal box at Wimbledon back in 2010, Scribblings had its highest page view count ever. And now, 18 months later, when I focus on that fine sport again, page views go through the roof. (We do have [...]
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I recently got back the marks for my latest Open University assignment. I’m doing a general science module this year (compulsory for the Natural Sciences degree I might obtain some time this century) and last month’s topic was biology. Disturbingly, despite my background in zoology, I scored lower on this assignment than on any other [...]
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It’s that time of the year again. If your daughters have delicate musical sensibilities, you might want to consider locking them up – along with anyone else with taste, good sense or a nervous disposition. For this Saturday, Market Place will be proud to host the nth Annual Abingdon’s Got Talent (sic) talent show. By [...]
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A more sombre post than I had anticipated to launch this latest new version of Scribblings. Anyone who’s been following my updates on Twitter or Facebook recently will know about Bagpuss’s illness, and his death last Wednesday. And now, just four days later, Hubby and I are off to Northamptonshire this afternoon, to see a [...]
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