
I wrote about my recent hospital experience back in March ( A Slice of Hospital Life ). This week brought the final follow-up appointment with the surgery team to check that all was well. Not to complicate matters, I opted not to change my hospital details following our move to Cornwall. So Monday’s final hospital [...]

I never realised it was so straightforward. Pasta, I mean. Specifically, making one’s own fresh pasta at home. Since discovering some labour-saving secrets, I have been going about it with gusto. Jen introduced me to pasta making a few months ago. Her creations were delicious but took an age, kneading the dough and letting it [...]
Sometimes the intent fails but the outcome is far more interesting! A short outing to Weyland’s Smithy (an ancient burial site) yesterday resulted not in great photos of the barrow itself, but what we found when wandering around nearby. Much of my fail yesterday was due to not spending enough time learning (or rather re-learning) [...]

So there it is, as of right now, I just clocked up over 50,000 words in the writing of TableRappers – Persistent Spirit. And they are pretty good words. Which equates, according to this particular popup information dialog, to almost 140 pages of a printed novel. Of course, that all depends on the size of [...]