• Daily Prompt: Sewing Skills Wanted!

    I would like to learn how to make my own clothes. As a larger lady, it is incredibly difficult to find clothing that fits well. Even though more shops are stocking larger sizes, the shape and cut of the garments – and sometimes the ridiculous and highly unnecessary amount of skin exposure – still makes…

  • Daily Prompt: Exciting Times

    Tell us about the last thing you got excited about. Before today, it was attending my first Leicester City Football Club game of the season last week. Going to a match is always exciting, even when the team isn’t doing well, because anything can happen. But we’re in good form at the moment, so there…

  • Daily Prompt: Names

    Where did your name come from? The origin of my name (a haiku) Arabic language Islamic faith and scripture Mother and father

  • Hello Filbert, my old friend…

    Hello lovely readers, I hope you are well. It’s been six weeks now since I began the Publish Everything Challenge and it has gone really well – as measured by my success criteria, at least. The detailed story of how it came about is available here but, in a nutshell, I was feeling disconnected from…

  • Did somebody say Phys Ed?

    Hello, hello, hello, It’s three weeks into the Publish Everything Challenge so I thought I would triple your greeting just for the fun of it! By way of update, the challenge is still going strong. I have managed to stick to the daily posting schedule, even with some Big Things happening elsewhere in life, so…