The Time Has Come...

...to sign up for the A To Z Challenge 2015!

 

I didn't realise that sign up was now open... but it turns out it is.

So click here and go and sign up - then get preparing.

I have already started my list for possible posts... although I haven't looked at it in a while, so I'd better take my own advice and get preparing. :)

A is For Abaft & Arlee!

Today is the first day of the Blogging From A To Z Challenge 2013.

And before I dive in to my theme for this year I think I should mention another 'A' - the founder of the Blogging From A To Z Challenge - Arlee Bird!

This is my third year participating in this challenge and I'd like to thank Arlee for starting this whole thing up - thanks Arlee! :) You can visit his blog by clicking here.



So anyway I revealed my theme a couple of weeks ago and so the very first word I came to in my dictionary that I didn't know was:



abaft adv, adj naut closer to the stern of a ship [Old English be by + æftan behind]


So there you go - you learn something new everyday - some of you may have already known what 'abaft' meant but I know I certainly didn't. It's one of those words where I think I've heard the word before but if I had heard it I had no idea what it meant.

See you tomorrow... 

Teaser Tuesday - The Last One Until May

The rules of Teaser Tuesday are simple:


• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

And then head over to Should Be Reading to add your link. 
 
So this week's teaser:

"You have never lived in a village, Ruth. The things that go on in a pure peaceful village would probably surprise you."
  
Page 13, They Do It With Mirrors - Agatha Christie

And this book counts towards the Mystery & Suspense Reading Challenge hosted by Book Chick City. 

This is the last Teaser Tuesday I'm going to take part in until May. I'm taking part in the Blogging From A To Z Challenge in throughout April... so you'll be sick of me with out me teasing you as well!!!

For more information and sign up go to the A To Z Challenge Blog. 

Now seen as it starts on Sunday (being 1st April and all) I suppose I'd better start planning some posts - oops!

I've set up my random quotes for the month - each quote corresponding with the letter of the day... but for actually posts I've got nothing at the moment. I'm going for random subjects... but I better get on with it!

A To Z Blogging Challenge... In The Not Too Distant Future

If you only read my blog via Google reader then you will not have noticed the A To Z Blogging Challenge badge over on the right... so not all of you will know about it.

The A To Z Blogging Challenge is back and you can now sign up for it - but wait until you've finished reading this or you might get sidetracked and never come back... :(

Anyway the challenge is that throughout April you blog every day about a different letter of the alphabet. Most participants go from A to Z but some mix it up and go from Z to A. But you do one post each day - a different letter everyday.

Now because there are not enough letters of the alphabet to have a post every single day of April you don't post on Sundays.

Now this is where it gets a tiny bit complicated. You don't post on Sundays except when the month starts on a Sunday... this year it does just that. So you don't post on Sundays except on Sunday 1st April - do a post then.

Did that make sense? No well tootle over to A To Z Challenge and all the information is there including useful posts on how to survive.

I think I may be mad taking part as on my other blog I am currently taking part in Sally Q's 100k In 100 Days which doesn't end until 9th April... and writing blog posts for your own blog doesn't count towards your total. So I'll have 9000 words (and no doubt more) to write for that and then 8 posts for the challenge!

And this year I've decided to try and be truly random. Last year I ranted and raved about things I liked and things I didn't. But they were all things I wrote down as they came to me.

This year I'm going to sit down to write a post and the first thing that comes in to my head when I think of the letter in question will be what I write about (OK so if it's something really boring I might opt for the second thing to come in to my head).

So go and sign up... and start preparing today!