tiredness – Country Mum Writes

When The End is not The End…

Guys, I did it! No, I didn’t get an agent, but I did finally finish my revised manuscript and on 1st June I emailed it back to Potentially Interested Agent (PIA). Huzzah, you may say (and I really wish you do, keep the word alive my friends. Our double-z words are scarce enough). On theContinue reading “When The End is not The End…”

Stolen kisses, kids, and writerly fidelity

Well, last night 3B (Beautiful Baby Boy) slept 10:30-5:30, marking his (and my) first 7-hour stretch of sleep since he was born 7 months ago. 🥳 We are celebrating as a family by having builders in: Current animal count: 4 cats, 16 hens, 1 cockerel, 0 Shetland ponies. Kid status: #3, 4 and 5 asleep,Continue reading “Stolen kisses, kids, and writerly fidelity”

On (not) going to bed

8pm Step 1: stay within earshot of “sleeping” Children 1-4 while polishing an agent submission in my own bed. This is technically resting. 9pm Step 2: check on Child #3 to see if the magic of “ok you can look at your sticker book as long as you STAY in bed” has worked for instantContinue reading “On (not) going to bed”

On Mumming

I’m posting a bit about the three strands of my life – Countrying, Mumming, and Writing – that I’m trying to weave into one glorious plait of happiness. Today: Mumming How on earth can I summarise the journey from laid-back, loved-up twenty-something pootling around London to obsessive thirty-eight year old, Mumming in the country? ThingsContinue reading “On Mumming”

On the fickleness of tech

6:28am Am sitting in my bed, glaring at my laptop, which looks like this: Please excuse the flash, I’m also sitting in the dark to avoid waking Husband. It was so sleek and fast when Husband first set us up together. I could actually type, on a real keyboard, instead of tapping away on myContinue reading “On the fickleness of tech”

Sometimes you have to actually just write stuff

9:53pm Finally had a proper chunk of editing. Am now at just over 50% of betas comments processed and applied where necessary yay! Wish I had the energy to feel more triumphant about it…it’s a Thing, definitely Yay-worthy, but I’m So. Tired. Definitely could have just gone to sleep an hour earlier instead. But sometimesContinue reading “Sometimes you have to actually just write stuff”