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Another Monday shines brightly through the windows

Another Monday shines brightly through the windows and today I'm finishing up on Woven Song by Rachael Krotec.

What book(s) are you reading this week?

Long hot day at work, got home at 7:10pm cleaned t

Long hot day at work, got home at 7:10pm cleaned the house and made a veggie chilli just starting to settle now, bed soon

Will be adding more to this soon

Will be adding more to this soon

58th read of 2024...

58th read of 2024...

It’s my day off, why have I been up for an hour?

It’s my day off, why have I been up for an hour?

Do love a Welsh Poppy

Do love a Welsh Poppy

#bookpost today 😳😉🌶️

#bookpost today 😳😉🌶️

Trying to figure out which #tarotdeck to explore n

Trying to figure out which #tarotdeck to explore next.

Idle Hands Tarot, Tarot of the Witches, or The Rackham Tarot?

#tarot #tarotcards #poll

Just shuffling away until I felt like drawing a ca

Just shuffling away until I felt like drawing a card, no question in mind.

Three of Pentacles is an encouragement and sign that I’m on the right track in work related things. This could mean what I’ve been doing with the blogs and websites will be right and to push on but there is also a thought going through my head about the day job which I may explore further.

But an encouraging card

#tarot #dailydraw #dailyreading #tarotreading #tarotcard #threeofpentacles

With everything that's going on in my life at the

With everything that's going on in my life at the moment I've decided to fold the indie publishing website into the Big Bearded Bookseller website

This means that the BBB site will get another thread of content and mean far more regular updates each month and that the indie publishing site won't look as though it is abandoned with only one or two posts every now and then

I'll be doing the same for the indie bookshop website soon for the same reasons

Both started off as hobbies and took on more weight during lock down and furlough and it would have been great to continue like that but they can't be more than hobbies and interests while I work full time

#bookshops #indiebookshops #publishers #indiepublishers #publishing #books #blogging #blogger #content

Flowers are really coming up in the garden now

Flowers are really coming up in the garden now

So a couple of packages arrived for me today one w

So a couple of packages arrived for me today one was a book I’ve really been looking forward to ‘The Phoenix Keeper’ by S A Maclean (and it has a map!) the others were a surprise from @flyingeyebooks ‘Cub’ by Jonty Howley and ‘One Day on Our Prehistoric Planet’ by Ella Bailey and how cute are the dino paper clips!

#bookpost @hachetteuk #mythicalcreature #dinosaur #lion #picturebook #fantasy

Blogging away with the french doors open, cat popp

Blogging away with the french doors open, cat popping in and out, starlings bubbling away, and the enthusiastic whoops of wood pigeons is the evening I needed

I will be posting what's in those packages once I've got a cup of tea

#blogging #quietevening #bookblogger #chilled

There is a cat in there somewhere #catsofinstagram

There is a cat in there somewhere #catsofinstagram #drinkingfromthepond

Little staff room haul to top up my #tbr

Little staff room haul to top up my #tbr

Going to have to get the outside stove fired up th

Going to have to get the outside stove fired up the next nice night

Been a weird week the past week, health issues wei

Been a weird week the past week, health issues weighing on my mind has meant I've been reading less and thinking more, not always a good thing 😂

It has meant I've put a few things into a perspective I can work with and feel better about.

A few changes will be happening around my blogging but nothing really major just fine tuning.

Sometimes you really need the splash of cold water in the face to make you realise things and that's what's happened.

It's the first Monday in May and I'm currently rea

It's the first Monday in May and I'm currently reading 'A Rivalry of Hearts' by @tessonja

What book(s) are you reading this week?

#amreading #mondayreads #ARivalryOfHearts #crystalmoonpress #bookstagram #bookstagrammer

Some salads tonight, bean salad with olives, coles

Some salads tonight, bean salad with olives, coleslaw, and there's also going to be a feta and cucumber salad with fresh dill, we'll also have rocket and some tomatoes

#healthyeating #homecooking #salads

Tattoos, books, and cats is a valid personality is

Tattoos, books, and cats is a valid personality isn't it...

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