A first time!

Bloggie friends! 

2012 was such a year for me!

With some writerly joy for my story (see side bar! LOL!)

But best of all this year for me

Was having Charlie and little Gumtree!

Charlie says: I cannot ignore those laser eyes!

Gumtree says: I like my first trip outside! 

Old Kitty says: See you all  in 2013!

The Night Before!

Twas the night before Christmas

And all on the window sill

Was a Charlie all weary

With a silly billy Gumtree!

Me and the Gang wish all our bloggie pals glad tidings, holiday cheer and plenty of spirit (in our case, 40 per cent proof..)!!

Yay!

Chaos Before Christmas

Bloggie friends!!

With a crash and a bang and a thud, thud, thud

I tumbles and stumbles and go judd, judd, judd

I scatter all things in my path with such glee!

I am silly and ditzy and my name is Gumtree!

Charlie says: I ignore everything.

This was a rare sunny moment last Saturday morning. Notice I don't have any Christmas decorations up yet. The Gumster is in full attack mode and everything is game but I'm hoping to have some up by this weekend! 

Have a great week everyone!

Party Time!

Bloggie friends!

I had a nice surprise pop up on my email last week. My story "London Meat" is out on an open forum for this competition and some kind soul and complete stranger  emailed me to say how much they really liked it. Awwww!  Makes all this writing malarky worth it! I won't win but it's just nice that someone liked my story enough to tell me.

Gumtree says: I play with Charlie's handsome pic!

Would you all believe it's only 14 days to Christmas!??! Yay!

Hide and sneak!

Bloggie friends!

Gum-gum wants to know where Charlie is.

Charlie says: Shhhh!

In the meantime, I (and a load of other fab peeps!!) won the "write a novel in one month" challenge (NaNoWriMo)! LOL!

Huge congrats to all and hope others join in next year too. It's totally crazy - I basically centred my story around one of the nastiest, wickedest, sneakiest most amoral characters I could dream up and had such fun with her for a month! LOL!

Now back to my regular blogging schedule time! 

Merry Christmas one and all!!

A temporary truce...

... between Charlie and  Gumtree! And yes those are bits of their fur on the carpet as this was taken after a most vigorous knockabout-play-fight-play that they both won of course! :-)

Bloggie friends!!!

This writing a 50,000 word novel in 30 days is bizarre but it's taught me two things:

1) I'm literally and metaphorically writing rubbish just to get to the word count! LOL!

2) I miss blogging! I miss you all!!!

See you at the finishing line!

p.s. Gum-Gum goes for his "little operation" this Thursday so please wish him luck!

:-)

Peace and a Nano confession!

Bloggie friends!!

Peace at last? 

Charlie says: Nah, I still rule!

Gumtree says: I like my fluffy toy, Charlie!

And now my confession!

I am actually doing my first NaNo (National Novel Writing Month)! Ahem. 

But I deliberately didn't join any forums etc because I want to do this by myself and see if I can. Here is my progress (apologies to the organisers if I wasn't meant to show this! ) 

As you can see - I have a long long way to go. So forgive me if I disappear for a bit in November while I try and catch up with my word count! Wish me luck! 

p.s. Skyfall was BRILLIANT! Daniel Craig can totally have me! Ahem. Off I go now to have a cold shower. :-)