2026 – Page 7

Weather the storm

9 January, 2026 Lynn Jones Posiblogging, Uncategorized

Hi, According to Elmore Leonard and his Ten Rules of Writing, number one is “Never open a book with weather.” This is great advice and as I’ve started this week’s blog post by referencing Mr Leonard’s sage wisdom, I can now talk about the snow 😉 Chamsellation A bit of a – thankfully rare! – occurrence, in that we had to cancel the first Chams’ meeting of the year. I had kept an eye on the weather and pretty much not thought much about it. I mean, it’s not often we have a bad winter in the East Midlands … [ Weather gods, please do not take this as a provocation! 🙏] … so I was somewhat surprised to see […]

Something for the memory bank

2 January, 2026 Lynn Jones Posiblogging, Uncategorized

Hi, How was New Year’s? Hopefully good. Hands up who left coal outside, did the First Footer thing, or another tradition? Personally, I like to renew the enchanted salt paint to keep [insert name here] away from the house 😉 #32: Enjoy the Little Things I’ll let the geek massive have a grin at that reference 🤓 However, film quotes aside, I feel there’s some truth in it. Today we had a fright slight dusting of snow in the wee hours. This meant we – and the hounds – needed to be suitably wrapped up against the chill. Cue leggings and opaques under jeans for warmth (yeah, right 😉) and my new Popsy boots. They’re just -ahem- genderfluid enough to […]