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
More thoughts on the 2017 #AtoZChallenge
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
Lots of offers!
You may be losing track of all the things going on at present. I have a list beside me to help steer me through, but most of the things there are unrelated to the blog or the books. For example,
Lima
Lima – capital of Peru and the word for L in the NATO alphabet. I’ve been to Lima. Only for about half an hour, but I have at least been there. I may even have a stamp in my passport
Charlie
I feel a proper Charlie, trying to decide what to post about for Charlie, the third word in the NATO alphabet. Charlie is My Darling – a Scottish folk song of the Jacobites (Bonnie Prince Charlie) Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker –
Bravo Victor – the cover and giveaway
It is all Victor’s fault that I chose the NATO alphabet as my AtoZ Challenge theme this year. Apart from V for Victor, there is also B for Bravo. And as book 6 in the Princelings of the East series
Tuesday haiku – Alpha
A is for Alpha α The first letter of the Greek alphabet. The root of alphabet along with the second Greek letter, beta. Another way of indicating a first rank – my school divided its years up into three classes,
A to Z Challenge Theme Reveal!
All over the web, people are signing up for the A to Z Challenge – which starts April 1st. Blog from A to Z starting with A on the first, B on the 2nd… take Sundays off and end at
Friday… Writing Exercise
Something different this week. Chuck Wendig gave us a writing exercise in place of the usual flash fiction challenge. “I want you to take one thing and describe it ten different ways. That thing can be… anything. An object. A person.
Tuesday haiku – AtoZ Theme Reveal
Have you got a theme For the April A to Z? Reveal it with us! The #A2ZReveal is a great opportunity for everyone to get a jump start on your #atozchallenge #blogging experience. You can link up with fellow #bloggers,
What’s in store for book reviews
Saturday is book review day, but I confess I didnt get anything new read over Christmas. I started a couple of new ones, though! This year I’ve got my work cut out for me, since I’ve signed up to read
How stories start
Last night I was working on the ideas for my AtoZ Blog Challenge. That’s not till April but because I’m doing A to Z on the background to the stories I thought I’d better work on the whole lot in
Princelings World from A to Z
I came across a very interesting site which is promoting the A to Z blogging challenge in April. The idea is to post a blog on the letter A on the 1st April, B on the 2nd and so on