The Silly-Savvy Salopian

13: 1000 likes!

I’ve hit the big time! I’ve done it! Today, I received the grand total of 1001 likes on my blog, for which I received ‘Congratulations’ from Word Press. Is this just the start? The start of my new life as a remote being? Why haven’t I reached the big 1, 000, 000 yet? Come onContinue reading “13: 1000 likes!”

12: Clean Oven

Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links to Amazon products. If you choose to make purchases, I will receive a commission at no extra cost to yourself. So, how many words of my ‘book in a week’ have I churned out since yesterday? None. Zero. Zilch. Mrs Hinch is, of course, to blame for this prevarication! How?Continue reading “12: Clean Oven”

11: Book a Week

Is it possible, I ask you (i.e. myself) to write a book in a week? How long will Mrs Hinch stay away for, if I just sit down at my desk and write on and on and on? Will she place her rubber-gloved hand on my shoulder and entice me into my kitchen to seeContinue reading “11: Book a Week”

A Recent View: A Silly Poem

One. One person viewed the not me that is the me that wrote the latest but not the last one. Copyright owned by Jay Cool, May 2019 If you are the ‘one’, please read another of my silly poems, e.g. Deblobbed. Image by Henryk Niestrój from Pixabay

Restlessness: A Savvy Poem

Nested. Never mind all the rest; never mind the endless tests or the race to be best ……… or the boys who were nothing – nothing more than the rest – just pests! She wanted nothing, nothing more, and nothing less, than a place, a place for a rest; herContinue reading “Restlessness: A Savvy Poem”

10: Boss-Free

Another day over. Am I wishing my life away? No, I’m counting down the days until my life starts again. Life minus the boss. Perhaps I shouldn’t knock it; the boss pays, and I can’t say that my inbox is full of demands for my services as a savvy freelance writer. Is it the savvyContinue reading “10: Boss-Free”

9: Floats & Giggles

It’s silly, but … … now that I know I’m leaving, that there’s an end in sight, I’m actually quite enjoying my job. A strange phenomenon that I’m putting down to relief. The anxiety has lifted and I’m feeling all floaty. All floaty, happy and even a little bit (a lot) giggly! This morning, IContinue reading “9: Floats & Giggles”

Savvy Book – Look at Zoos

Feeling flat following the grand finale of ‘The Durrells’ TV series? Missing Corfu? Me too! And I’m especially gutted about the end of the romance between Louisa and Spiro. Okay, it was inevitable – of course, he couldn’t leave his children behind on Corfu! And we all knew it would end this way, but thatContinue reading “Savvy Book – Look at Zoos”

8: Hello Me!

So much for giving up the day job. Spent the day, today, working. Not at my workplace, but at home; at home, for my workplace. For the workplace which I have given up; but which, in turn, has not given me up. The workplace that still expects me to do more work for it –Continue reading “8: Hello Me!”

Mental Health: Workplace Stigma

A response to Sofia Tindall’s article, about the stigma of mental health. It’s a Friday morning and, keen to create a poem, I browse my news feed for some inspiration, only to be confronted with the revelation, courtesy of Sofia Tindall (journalist for Grazia) that the mental health stigma still exists! A revelation? Hardly! I readContinue reading “Mental Health: Workplace Stigma”