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Because I smashed 2017’s target of 45 books with 56 books read, I set an always ambition target of reading 50 books this year, and only just scraped in on the last day of the year to make it (having…
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I pledged to read 45 books this year, and ended up reading 56 books (although Thomas rules dictate that if it’s got an ISBN number it goes on the list!). I also pledged to finish writing the Mr Tumnal sequel, The Imaginary Wife…
Continue readingOnly 42 books read this year, but one of those was the clasic of all clasics that is War & Peace, so I reckon that has got to equal about 6 regular books! I’ve also been fitting in more writing,…
Continue readingThis was my second full year of getting the bus to work and reading lots, and lots – another 45 books in all. That said, I also did a 100-day walking challenge with work during the summer which shortened my…
Continue reading2012 has been a year dominated by books and by reading and writing. At the beginning of year I set myself the Goodreads reading challenge to read at least 20 books in the year. I didn’t manage to reach this,…
Continue readingI have now worked my my last day of 2011st year, and so it seems like a fitting moment to provide some account of the last year (although what follows was actually written a few days ago). Has it really…
Continue readingAfter the gloriously epic year that was 2009, it has been a quieter 2010 for us in the shire, but none the less enjoyable for all of that. After three years of uncertain change things have settled down. I continue…
Continue readingIn typical storyteller-style, this yearâs roundup begins with a Previously on⦠moment. You will remember that last year the series ended just as the kitchen was stripped down to plaster and awaiting a new kitchen. The kitchen was fitted just…
Continue readingIf last year wasnât full of enough change for you, then this year has continued at an epic pace. So, after the last season finale didnât leave you wanting more and with questions as where the story was going, then…
Continue readingDo you ever get those years, where, quite out of nowhere they take the most unexpected of turns? It was always going to be a year of change for me, but in now way could I have predicted the the…
Continue reading9 December 2006 Is it really possible that I have been writing these annual notes for thirteen years? So what have been the highlights of the year of Thomas? What’s been the BIG news? Could it be bigger than what…
Continue readingSo, another year has passed, my dear friends, and so comes my annual Christmas witterings. Work continues, as always, filling up those 7¼ hours of each working day – the accompaniment to everything else that I have been doing. The…
Continue readingJanuary Floods. A new building. Kind of shakes you. February Pepper. A new cat in my life March and the backstreets of Bath awaken the photographer in me. April Blood & Fire, a novel reborn. From the pain of the…
Continue readingJanuary Floods. A new building. Kind of shakes you. February Pepper. A new cat in my life March and the backstreets of Bath awaken the photographer in me. April Blood & Fire, a novel reborn. From the pain of the…
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