Tales from the Scrap Book: My first Haiku…

Just wrote this after quite a painful few days trying to finalise numbers for my Covid-19 wedding. What you think? Me, Myself, IThe bonds so fast, brokenPersevere, Persist, PrevailReturned but not forgotten... AfroCelt 👍🏿 (c) AfroCelt 2020. All rights reserved

Tales from the Scrap Book: The Season

Hiya, everyone. I just thought that I'd share this excerpt that I wrote a few years ago. I actually wrote it back in 2011, whilst recovering from a nasty injury. If I'm honest, I think it was my way of coping with it and the frustration of not being able to play footy. I recently …

Sprinting Trials

In my last post, I talked about trying out "sprinting". Sprinting is what I'm going to name the act of typing to reach a certain amount of words in a set time. In my case I followed a lady's advice and tried for 500 words in half an hour. So I set myself up with …

Sprinting!

So, in a previous post, I talked about the issues that I have had with distractions in this new AC (Age of Covid) era.  Strangely enough, almost straight away, I found a useful way to get me to push myself onwards! I came across it almost by accident, really.  In one of the writing groups …

Motivation & Self Belief

"The only opinion that matters is the one you have of yourself"Adebayo Akinfenwa, on getting Wycombe Wanderers promoted to the Championship, 13/07/2020 Two nights ago was a bit of an event in ours. My fiancée and her family were all excited. Last night was English Football's (or soccer for those of you from the US) …

The problem with Covid…

"...From this evening, I must give the British people a very simple instruction. You must stay at home..."Boris Johnson, British Prime Minister, 20th March 2020 20th March 2020. Round about 9pm. Its a date and time that won't leave my memory too quickly. Why? Easy, it was that day and time that two policemen entered …

Changing your Scenery

"A change will do you good"Cheryl Crow Its something that should be obvious really, but if I'm completely honest - Ive only discovered it recently that changing your scenery can be great for your productivity Let me be clear, I do have an "office" at home where I try and do a lot of my …

Inspiration

Try to be a Rainbow in someone's cloudMaya Angelou It's a single word, yet one that is capable of stirring a dread that will chill your soul. "Where do you get your inspiration from?", "Who inspires you?", "Thats an inspired choice!" For me, I think the source of the dread isn't in the word itself …

The Life begins…

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton These are strange times we are living in, fair play! The leader of the free world appears to be bonkers, the UK, my naturalised home, is in an existential crisis following a decision to undo nearly 60 years of unity with Brexit …