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Wednesday word of the week – Joint

There are lots of types of joints – carpentry, elbow, marijuana, the main part of a non veggie Sunday dinner…

Other uses for the word include a place to meet someone for a drink, something done in partnership (eg jointly writing a book), cutting up a carcass for food, held or belonging to more than one person (joint account) the contrivance by which two artificial things are joined together (that’s something to do with plumbing, I think) the part of a stem from which a leaf grows, the cement bit between bricks and to prepare something ready to be joined to something else.

If I’ve missed any, please let me know – that way this post will be a joint effort.

patsy

Wednesday word of the week – Tiro

A tiro (which can also be written as tyro) is a beginner or novice. Two or more are known as tiros.

I’m a tiro when it comes to wildlife photography, but fortunately this little bird hopped off instead of flying away, so I got some of it in focus. Anyone know what it is?

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Want some cheap romance?

I can’t guarantee that your beloved will write you poetry or buy you flowers, but I can guarantee you some romance at a very affordable price.
Escape To The Country is currently available for 99p / 99c.

Here are a few things reviewers have said –

‘ lively humour and bubbling fun, that’s the gold, I loved this book. Smiled all the way to work on the train, smiled all the way home, sniggered happily more than once.’

‘ It’s a great story with characters that are written so well that you really care about them. I laughed, I cried and I shouted “no” at them several times as I joined them on their journey. I also got rather hungry with some of the food descriptions!’

‘ There is real warmth in this tale, the characters are believable, the dialogue good, and the story keeps its pace.’

‘Just the thing to cosy up to on a chilly night.’     Get it here.

Happy Valentine’s! x

patsy

In the … People’s Friend Special

I’m very pleased to have a short romantic story in the current issue of The People’s Friend Special. (Thanks to my friend Sheila Mooney for telling me she’d spotted it!)

If you’d like to read some of my romantic short stories, you might like to take a look at these four collections, which each contain 24 stories.

patsy

Wednesday word of the week – Mull

A mull is a promontory. Mull can also mean to ponder or consider. Mulling wine, beer or cider is heating it with sugar and spices. Eg I went to the Mull of Kintyre and mulled over whether or not to have a glass of mulled wine.

Mull apparently can also be a form of non acidic compost or a particular type of muslim, so I suppose I could have sat on a pile of mull at a mull* in the company of a mull. We may have mulled things over together, but we’d not have drunk any mulled wine.

*Not Kintyre though as the soils is acidic there.

Now I could have mulled some wine and photographed that as I do like the stuff, but instead  here’s one of the foghorn at the Mull of Galloway. (I don’t actually know the  man in the picture, but he stayed there so long I took the shot anyway, then walked down to see what he was looking at. It was a HUGE seal. He (the man, not the seal) then pointed out various different birds and explained about the tides and other interesting stuff.)

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Pretty Kitty

Aaaw, look at the cute little kitten. Look at his nice fluffy fur. Look into his pretty blue eyes. Focus and concentrate. Feel yourself getting the urge to buy a collection of slightly spooky stories. That’s it, click on the link – you know you want to…

OK, that’s enough now. Go read your books. Stop looking at the kitten. If you stare into those eyes too long, you’re in danger of buying the entire set of slightly spooky stories.

What do you think his name is?

patsy

It really is a mystery

I’ve had a lovely new review for Acting Like A Killer. If you’d like to see if you agree with Bookworm and live in the UK, you can get either the paperback or ebook for £2.53. That unusual price has been set by Amazon – no doubt they have their reasons. Sorry, I don’t know how long it will stay like that (they did it for a few days last wek, then out the paperback back to the usual £10 before dropping it again) and I don’t know if a similar discount has been applied in other countries.