Water. The stuff of life. It’s my pick from the posts of the last seven A to Zs, as my theme for this anniversary year is flashbacks. It is also the proper place for Flashback Friday posts – the meme
W is for Water #atozchallenge #flashbackfriday
Orogeny: Flash Fiction + link to #WEP post #AtoZChallenge
Orogeny, or mountain building, featured as my A to Z for O in 2015. This year my theme is flashbacks. I’m picking out posts from the seven A to Zs I’ve done before. Wednesday 17th is supposed to be the
WriteClub19 opens today + Theme Reveal @AprilA2Z
Theme reveal and WriteClub19 all in one post! WriteClub19 WriteClub19 submissions open today! Hop over to DL Hammons’ website to get all the details and/or upload your story. Remember, it has to be under 500 words and not reveal your
A to Z Review and Book Tour starts today
As mentioned in January, the A to Z Review and book tour blog hop runs from today to the end of February. A Book of my A to Z Challenge It’s a really interesting premise. Have you made a book
More thoughts on the 2017 #AtoZChallenge
A week after the great A to Z Challenge announcement, I thought I’d try to make some sort of sense of it all before making a final decision for this year. In short, the organisers have decided not to do
The Happy New Year Post
Family have left, friends have gone, the leftover food has all been eaten up or turned into soup and frozen, and I’m resolving to lose what I put on over Christmas without doing anything too drastic so I end up eating
A2Z Roadtrip – goodbye
I have come to the conclusion that I am a complete wannabe at blog visiting, because however much I think I should visit and comment and like posts, I don’t. I know it’s the key to making more friends and them knowing more
Transit of Venus
and World Book Night T in my A to Z of Natural Phenomena is for the Transit of Venus across the face of the sun. This event happens twice, eight years apart, roughly every 110 years (the pattern repeats every
Methane Archaea
Strictly speaking, I think microscopic animals that use methane instead of oxygen to support life are not classed as ‘natural phenomena’ but just as ‘amazing nature‘. The first chemophiles (lovers of chemicals) were discovered living in the depths of the
Lyrid meteor shower
Meteor showers are the best time to look at the night skies in search of ‘shooting stars’. Meteors are particles of dust and other space particles that hit the earth’s atmosphere and burn up, causing a stream of light that
Halley’s Comet
Halley’s Comet is one of the most famous of all, partly because it is featured on the Bayeux tapestry. It’s the most easily visible of the short-period comets, i.e. ones that come back fairly often, in Halley’s case every 75-76
Giant’s Causeway
Have you ever seen a set of hexagonal columns stretching out from the land and sinking beneath the waves? Well, I finished with a view of the ones at Fingal’s Cave yesterday, and here are some more. This time we’re
Barrier Reef
Day 2 of the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge, and my theme this year is Natural Phenomena. Barrier Reef; there are three main types, the best known of which is of course the Great Barrier Reef, of the
A to Z Challenge Theme Reveal Blogfest
Greetings, one and all, welcome, welcome! Here we are for the great and amazing Theme Reveal Blogfest, where hundreds of people unleash their plans for the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge. And this year my theme is… Natural Phenomena
On scheduling posts
Seven weeks from Wednesday, the April A to Z Challenge will start. If you haven’t signed up yet, all the details and sign-up list are here. Do it, you’ll enjoy it! The key to that enjoyment is scheduling your posts