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The Raiders by Marian Allen

It’s ten years since I went freelance, do you have any question you’d like to ask me about that?

I’m not sure whether I am going to be able to participate in AudioMo this year, but if I do subscribers to this blog will likely get at least one post with audio, a day for the month of June. If I don’t posts will return to their usual hiatus.

It would be easy to look back on the last year and remember some of the things that haven’t gone quite according to plan, not that there particularly was a plan. I’ll try not to do that but…

The year started, the way the previous year ended, with lots of water. Groundwater flooding is a thing here and floodwater started in December last year and carried on until May. It’s the longest length of time I can remember, and the levels were about the worst they’ve ever been and for a good proportion...

After days, weeks, months and probably even years I’ve finally deleted my Twitter account. I’ve been @tontowilliams there since 2007 when twitter used SMS to broadcast messages.

In many ways I am gutted to have deleted my account. However, I have not been using the platform for many months and prior to that I was at best a sporadic Tweeter.

I am still on the socials though. Probably the one that I am most active on is Instagram where I am also @tontowilliams but I am also on Blue Sky a...

I think that I spend far too much time thinking!

I’d say that I have the majority of my life behind me now and sometimes I worry that I don’t know the direction that I’m heading (other than the inevitable at some point) and possibly I feel the most uncertain about life in general than I ever have at any other point in my life. There are ‘things’ that have passed that I can never get back, and some things that I know I’ll lose at some point in the future.
I’ll sit and write about those things t...

Back towards the end of last year I discovered my Kindle reading stats. I mostly read on a Kindle Paperwhite that’s about five years old, and although the stats aren’t available on that device you can find them either on a Kindle reading app (iOS or Android) or by going to the link here. (You need to be signed into your Amazon account and read on a Kindle!)

The stats showed me that I had a pretty healthy consecutive daily reading streak going, and I got to thinking as to whether or not I coul...