Tag Archives: cats

#104 Coping with cats

Posted on August 15, 2019 by M J Dees

While clearly adorable, cats do make life more interesting and sometimes more challenging for the people they own. In a recent post, I shared the obsession  that one the cats who has shared ownership over me had developed with my … Continue reading →

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#101 Putting shelves up

Posted on July 16, 2019 by M J Dees

Regular readers of this blog will be aware that I have recently moved house again, hopefully for the last time in a while.  The move was almost three months ago and yet most of my clothes are still in suitcases … Continue reading →

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#100 Writing a blog

Posted on June 22, 2019 by M J Dees

It seemed apt that the 100th post on my blog should be about writing a blog and what better way to celebrate than by taking a tour of the most popular posts of the last five years. Although we are … Continue reading →

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#98 Hiding bow ties from cats

Posted on June 5, 2019 by M J Dees

My day is meant to begin at 05:45 when my alarm is set to go off but more often than not I am woken earlier by one of the cats who obviously feels that 05:45 is far too much of … Continue reading →

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#94 Moving house (again)

Posted on April 17, 2019 by M J Dees

As I write this, I am in the first phase of a house move, or rather flat move to be more accurate. For readers in the US a flat is an apartment and it is anything but flat. Phase one … Continue reading →

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#35 Forget your charger and other IT related issues

Posted on April 8, 2017 by M J Dees

I do most of my writing on my mobile phone, I also have a tablet which I can use if my phone runs out of battery. I write on Google Docs which means I can access my work on any … Continue reading →

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#14 get a cat

Posted on January 22, 2016 by M J Dees

Was it Daphne du Maurier who said that cats helped her to write? She obviously didn’t have my cats who consider laptops, notes or anything else essential to writing as a threat which should be immediately sat on to death. … Continue reading →

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#7 Cleaning

Posted on January 4, 2016 by M J Dees

I’m currently in the middle of rewriting the first novel which I have tentatively named Living with Saci as it features the character from Brazilian Folklore who only has one leg, smokes a pipe, wears a red hat and causes … Continue reading →

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