Linda Acaster's Blog, page 5
July 1, 2020
Life of an Anglo-Saxon Warrior at #Bamburgh
Covid-19 may have curtailed travelling and cancelled events, but it has opened a plethora of online talks, lectures, and instructive how-to demonstrations, most available on YouTube.
For the writer and the reader the Society of Authors has run a series of Afternoon Tea With… as well as useful talks on marketing. York Festival of Ideas took its annual festival online with talks on a wide range
For the writer and the reader the Society of Authors has run a series of Afternoon Tea With… as well as useful talks on marketing. York Festival of Ideas took its annual festival online with talks on a wide range
June 10, 2020
Native American Plains Decoration Techniques
Today on her Happy Ever After website Sharon Booth is hosting my guest post explaining how I came to research Beneath The Shining Mountains. If you’ve just hopped across from there, Welcome! If you’ve arrived here first, please follow the link above to read the original post – it’s not long and this one will then make more sense (probably).
It seems that I was almost born with an interest in
It seems that I was almost born with an interest in
June 3, 2020
Dissecting the Opening of a Short Story
I am finally digging myself out of Covid-19 procrastination with a short story which is fast turning into a novelette, as much of my short fiction seems to do. It’s quite a while since I uploaded a how-to post, so I thought I’d share the beginning of my work-in-progress. Upfront I’ll say that I am more of a pantser than a plotter, so when I started I knew little more than what you’ll read.What
May 22, 2020
Procrastination for Writers – the uses and misuses of YouTube
My first attempt
As Covid-19 continues to waft non-too-benignly through the air, it seems I am not alone in being unable to knuckle down and concentrate. First I put my lack of discipline down to the physical exertion of remobilising after a hip replacement, then there was the housework to catch up on, then washing and altering curtains, then... baking bread. If the lack of flour on the
As Covid-19 continues to waft non-too-benignly through the air, it seems I am not alone in being unable to knuckle down and concentrate. First I put my lack of discipline down to the physical exertion of remobilising after a hip replacement, then there was the housework to catch up on, then washing and altering curtains, then... baking bread. If the lack of flour on the
April 15, 2020
When Your Health Turns On You: #Hypothyroidism –– 7: Covid-19 and Vitamin D
Image
courtesy of Gert Altmann via Pixabay
Yesterday morning I caught an interesting interview on Sky News. Dr Gero Baiarda from GPDQ, a private GP service in the UK, was discussing the high proportion of
Covid-19 infections and deaths among people of the Black, Asian and
other minority ethnic backgrounds.
The numbers had become noticeable, he said, among those working in the National
courtesy of Gert Altmann via Pixabay
Yesterday morning I caught an interesting interview on Sky News. Dr Gero Baiarda from GPDQ, a private GP service in the UK, was discussing the high proportion of
Covid-19 infections and deaths among people of the Black, Asian and
other minority ethnic backgrounds.
The numbers had become noticeable, he said, among those working in the National
March 23, 2020
When Your Health Turns On You: #Hypothyroidism –– 6: Covid-19 Coronavirus
A touch of Kew Gardens courtesy of Hornsea Writers
For the backstory to this series, see the links at the bottom of the post.
Note: I’m British and live in the UK. We have a National Health Service, free at the point of access, paid for via our taxes. Your mileage may differ, even if you live in the UK.
When I wrote in Post-5 (28 February) that I’d give an update in a “few months”, I
For the backstory to this series, see the links at the bottom of the post.
Note: I’m British and live in the UK. We have a National Health Service, free at the point of access, paid for via our taxes. Your mileage may differ, even if you live in the UK.
When I wrote in Post-5 (28 February) that I’d give an update in a “few months”, I
February 27, 2020
When Your Health Turns On You: #Hypothyroidism –– 5: Functional Medicine and YouTube
The backstory for those just joining me:
During 2017 I was suffering lots of weird health symptoms, the most concerning being that my brain refused to function properly – hardly a useful trait in a novelist. April 2018 a lump developed on my neck: a swelling on my thyroid. A GP’s blood tests indicated I might develop Hypothyroidism, whereas symptoms and antibodies emphasised that I was
During 2017 I was suffering lots of weird health symptoms, the most concerning being that my brain refused to function properly – hardly a useful trait in a novelist. April 2018 a lump developed on my neck: a swelling on my thyroid. A GP’s blood tests indicated I might develop Hypothyroidism, whereas symptoms and antibodies emphasised that I was
February 26, 2020
When Your Health Turns On You: #Hypothyroidism –– 4: Vitamin Co-Factors and the Microbiome
The backstory for those just joining me:
During 2017 I was suffering lots of weird health symptoms, the most concerning being that my brain refused to function properly – hardly a useful trait in a novelist. April 2018 a lump developed on my neck: a swelling on my thyroid. A GP’s blood tests indicated I might develop Hypothyroidism, whereas symptoms and antibodies emphasised that I was
During 2017 I was suffering lots of weird health symptoms, the most concerning being that my brain refused to function properly – hardly a useful trait in a novelist. April 2018 a lump developed on my neck: a swelling on my thyroid. A GP’s blood tests indicated I might develop Hypothyroidism, whereas symptoms and antibodies emphasised that I was
February 25, 2020
When Your Health Turns On You: #Hypothyroidism –– 3: Blood Tests
The backstory for those just joining me:
During 2017 I was suffering lots of weird health symptoms, the most concerning being that my brain refused to function properly – hardly a useful trait in a novelist. April 2018 a lump developed on my neck: a swelling on my thyroid. A GP’s blood tests indicated I might develop Hypothyroidism, whereas symptoms and antibodies emphasised that I was
During 2017 I was suffering lots of weird health symptoms, the most concerning being that my brain refused to function properly – hardly a useful trait in a novelist. April 2018 a lump developed on my neck: a swelling on my thyroid. A GP’s blood tests indicated I might develop Hypothyroidism, whereas symptoms and antibodies emphasised that I was
February 24, 2020
When Your Health Turns On You: #Hypothyroidism –– 2: Vitamins + Minerals
The backstory for those just joining me:
During 2017 I was suffering lots of weird health symptoms, the most concerning being that my brain refused to function properly –
hardly a useful trait in a novelist. April 2018 a lump developed on my
neck: a swelling on my thyroid. A GP’s blood tests indicated I might
develop Hypothyroidism, whereas symptoms and antibodies emphasised that I
was
During 2017 I was suffering lots of weird health symptoms, the most concerning being that my brain refused to function properly –
hardly a useful trait in a novelist. April 2018 a lump developed on my
neck: a swelling on my thyroid. A GP’s blood tests indicated I might
develop Hypothyroidism, whereas symptoms and antibodies emphasised that I
was
