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Hoping in vain that having the doors of my house wide open will encourage the much warmer air outside to waft through and warm up the freezing interior.

At last I have this in my hot little hands. Now I may have to stop doing what I'm meant to be doing and read instead. Adam Kay

It's World Postcard day today. Send a postcard. Maybe a bookish one or a touristy one;: they're all lovely to receive.

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Today is International Stammering Awareness Day. I wrote about my own stammer as a child in a story that came joint runner-up in the Evening Standard Short Story Competition 2024: stories.standard.co.uk/iqbal-hussain #StammeringAwareness #ISAD2025 STAMMA Pic: Gillian Chatelain, Unsplash

Looseleft.

Surely people should enjoy books the way they enjoy books without others making stupid remarks about it. If people buy books only to look fancy in their bookcase - at least authors get royalties. If people want to be snooty, let them. I just like reading the books I like!

Coffee and books. Obviously I was unable to resist.

So over writing competitions that do this. "The winner and shortlisted entries will be notified via email after 31 October." How long after? Nothing on their website. I assume I can send my entry to another competition. It's rude to not let all entrants know when the list is out

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This is fiction. Just. For how long?

In our region, the rule-of-thumb for when to plant grain crops is "after ANZAC Day". The operation of planting completely erases anything in the paddock. So I figured, if it will be visible until at least ANZAC Day, let's combine the two? To the greatest place. Happy Australia

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Brilliant.

The one thing I can always tell about a child when I teach them