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  • My Writing Week

    Although I took a week off from my blog, I was still tutoring throughout the week, mixed in with motherly duties such as baking giant cookies and be taken on adventures on the X-box! We also managed a few trips out but now it’s nose to the grindstone with plenty of deadlines lurking on the…

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  • There are just so many to choose from but this one made me laugh out loud:    

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  • I Hate Mondays Part Two

    Yes, it’s that dreaded day of the week again:  

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  • Top Tip Of The Week

    Check, check, check! With readers’ letters, busy editorial staff don’t often have the time to let you know if they’re going to use your letter. It’s great if they do as it saves time standing at the newsagents every week checking to see if your letter has been published. But if you don’t check, you…

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  • Well, it’s been a few weeks but we’re almost to the end of the ‘ABC’ of ideas for articles. This week, I have ideas for V, W and X. It’s now getting a little tricky – and Y and Z are still to come! V is for vintage, whether the vintage relates to records, clothes,…

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  • My Writing Week

    As it’s half-term next week and I’ll be dividing my time between work and motherhood duties, it’s been a frantic week to say the least. I haven’t managed to send out seven pieces of work, as I did this time last week, but I’m up to five so that’s not bad going.   My market…

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  • This exam answer really made me smile:  

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  • I Hate Mondays Part One

    If you’re anything like me, Monday morning came round far too quickly. I feel a little like this fella:    

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  • Top Tip Of The Week

    Contractions Building on my tip from last week, this week contractions is the subject of my top tip. A contraction is where words are shortened. As the words are being shortened, an apostrophe needs to be used to indicate the missing letters e.g. I’m is short for I am and so the apostrophe highlights that…

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  • S is for spooky stories. If you like tales of the paranormal, there are lots of publications dedicated to anything and everything unexplained. The editors are always interested in well-researched articles, from UFO sightings, to myths about strange, terrifying creatures, to ghostly tales of old. T is for true-life tales. All of the women’s weeklies…

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