I’ve not done very well this week. I’ve had a rough week for various reasons so I’ve fallen behind with OctPoWriMo. So much so that I wrote four of the poems yesterday and three of them today. It’s depression, it amkes it hard to anything but the basics and while …
It’s Autumn, it’s October and we are days away from Halloween. As a kid, I never went trick or treating. Well, we went once. But living on the edge of nowhere Wales where my neighbours were a couple of fields away, it wasn’t something we could do. I live in …
So, I thought I would write about my blogging process. From inception to publishing and promotion, this is how the blog post is born on QLF. I follow the same routine most of the time and I post at least once a week. It’s not the way other people do …
This week has been tiring. Not in terms of writing, but in the real world. Where I work and live and sleep. If only it were all digital, but alas I exist. Flesh and mind and all. So I’ve been behind in both writing and posting poems for a couple …
Today is World Mental Health Day. And as I said to a colleague recently I am very open about my mental health. For years since my health has improved, I have written blog posts about my illness and diagnosis. I have even written about mental health for The Mighty. I …
OctPoWriMo stands for October Poetry Writing Month. The challenge is to write 31 poems in 31 days and is an off-shoot to NaPoWriMo in April created by Morgan Dragonwillow in 2012. I do both challenges most years depending on the circumstances. There are no real rules, just write 31 poems …
So, between my mum, my dad and my step-parent there has been some excellent advice over the year. Though to be honest I’m not entirely sure whether all of these pieces of advice are great or really even advice. Words definitely. And I’m sure they meant well. I think it …
We finally finished RuPaul’s Drag Race. We’re now watching RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars! They’re only six episodes long each so that won’t take long at all. We also rewatched Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries which we love and thankfully the Kickstarter for the film hit its target on the first day …
I don’t cook. My wife cooks and I eat. I can cook, and I will cook when needed but I don’t actually enjoy cooking that much, I do like food though and there are some things I can make without a cookbook or a recipe. One thing I can make …
So you’ve gone self-hosted, set it up, now what? Now you need plug-ins! What Are Plug-Ins? Plugins are little extras that you add to your WordPress site to give your blog some extra functionality or some extra features you might want or need. This includes everything from security to displaying …
