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I am a 69-year-old gay disabled amateur part-time writer living in Slough, Berkshire UK. I have published around 60 articles in 20 leisure and lifestyle magazines. I live with a range of health issues including heart disease, chronic kidney disease, Type 2 diabetes, depression, atrial fibrillation and restless leg syndrome. (I'm working my way through the medical dictionary!). I'm a member of Slough Writer's Group which is interesting and informative. Latest News. 10th July 2023 Awarded 'The Sandy Lee-Guard Award for Endeavour' by the Slough Writers Group. 6th December 2023 Completed studying 'Writing for Magazines' with CityLit University. January 2nd 2024. Fell over in the lounge and fractured my left femur (whilst recovering from fracturing my right femur in July 2023). May 2024. Completed studying ' National Centre for Writing' course 'Creative Non-Fiction - An Introduction'. 3rd November 2024. Began studying 'Article Writing and Freelance Journalism' with 'Writing Magazine'. Expected duration 8 Weeks.

Friday, 18 October 2024

Frustrating Friday!

Today's been a frustrating day. I couldn't link my DSLR camera or my Digital Voice Recorder to my PC to transfer image and audio files to my computer. I tried every way I could to do so, but eventually managed it.

I opened the wav file that contained the 18-minute interview with the 'owner' of Pine Ridge Dog Sanctuary and used otter.ai to convert the audio file into text which it did with hardly an error. The interview came out at just over 2,000 words. The article calls for 800-1,200 words, so there's a lot of editing to do!

Royal Mail say that they attempted to deliver a package to my home twice today, but could not gain access. We were in, but the 'entryphone' didn't 'ring' at either time they say that they tried to deliver it. They're now saying that it's awaiting collection at the local parcel office. I'll ring in the morning to see if I can collect it. Fingers crossed!

Kaira is doing fine; less nervous than she was and settling in well.  She's got quite an appetite, which is good because she's as thin as a rake and her ribs and spine are showing through, so we're trying to fatten her up gradually. She has two beds to choose from - one in the lounge and one in our bedroom. She uses both. She loves her head being stroked and her ears rubbed. She's only barked twice so far - once when she heard voices outside the bedroom window (ours is a ground floor flat) and the other time when she heard a pack of hunting hounds on 'Midsomer Murders'!

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