alberta's sefuty chronicles

Sefuty Snippets: Ellen's Tale & ROW80

2016-03-10T12:14:00.000+00:00

Because I am hoping to bring the fourth In The Sefuty Chronicles out this year I have begun a new meme here. Sefuty Snippets. Hopefully here with ROW80 weekly(but I no longer promise things like that)I will post a snippet from one of the three already published. Ellen’s Tale,The Storyteller’s Tale and Jack’s Tale a) to remind those who have read them and having waited so long for this

Brainstorming letters and words & ROW80

2016-02-21T16:36:00.000+00:00

Had my friend from forever/editor up here these last few days and apart from hours of conversations and laughter we have been brainstorming a bit not only on my A-Z subjects - mainly the titles and which bit goes with which letter but also on a challenge set up by one of the members of my writing group down here on earth. The police alphabet- Alpha Beta etc all the way to Zulu, write a

Time may have a chat with me later:

2016-02-15T10:58:00.000+00:00

I do like sunshine - blue skies and light all around. As a youngster I would spend hours baking and relishing in the sunshine. Unfortunately although I still like sunshine and blue skies at this time of the year both are normally a sign of low temperatures. I no longer revel outside in this bitter cold - I hibernate and watch the light from indoors. In the summer sun and blue indicate

They have to part

2015-01-09T12:51:00.000+00:00

I am not quite back in the routine this new year - am working on it honest but so the page does not remain empty for too long I am leaving a quote.

2014-11-15T13:23:00.001+00:00

AS some of you know I'm indulging in NaNoWrMo again this year, in the last fling to finish The Children’s Tale - I hope! This month long challenge to write 50,000 words of fiction in the four weeks is designed to focus the mind and to cast procrastination into the gloomy corners of a cave. Does it work? It has in the past, for myself and thousands of others, but the pace is frenetic

Children finding their way

2014-10-13T13:17:00.000+01:00

Many apologies for such a long absence - that old friend of mine, LIFE, came to stay and rather like those house guests in the old days of Jane Austin and Dickens just stayed and stayed:) LIFE is going to visit someone else , I hope, any day now but is going through that stupid ritual of just getting out of the door then remembering one last thing it forgot to mention. However, we are by

Still the same spade! Blue Moon lives again:)

2014-06-16T21:43:00.003+01:00

There is an old joke that keeps doing the rounds. A guy shows of a gardening, or DIY tool, proudly, with a tear in his eye, declares it’s the old hoe, spade, hammer that his father handed to him before his father died. ‘They built things to last back then’ is the proud declaration, ‘why this has only needed a new blade and two new handles in all that time. As good as the day his father

May vanished now June is running past me!

2014-06-06T23:01:00.000+01:00

Last year I had great hopes of The Ancestor’s Tale hitting the book shelves. The year began well then rapidly then unexpectedly turned into a trip over the Niagara Falls in a barrel. The fourth in the Sefuty Chronicles

The Monk's Tale: food security part 4

2013-02-03T11:22:00.001+00:00