Zakynthos – Francesca's Thoughts

08/08/2018

Cool for the Summer

Ugh. UGH. I just glanced at the date and realised that in one month’s time I will be returning from my holiday. Which means in one month and one day, I will have nothing to look forward to except autumn, which is a tenuous thing to look forward to when a) this weather might last Continue reading

(All Hail) Creation, Travel

Cofu, Holidays, Indifferent Ignorance, Ionian Islands, Kefalonia, My Family and Other Animals, The Durrells, travelling, Zakynthos, Zante

24/05/2018

10 Things I Can Tell You About Dragonnovel

I’ve been working on my book most of the morning and I started writing a quick update for my patrons, but there are only two of those currently and one is a close relation, so I thought I might as well share it here. The text is still a bit too draft-y for me to Continue reading

dragonnovel, writing

blue caves in Zante, dragonnovel, Indifferent Ignorance, Ionian Islands, Patreon, the Bechdel Test, writers on Patreon, writing a book, Zakynthos

10/02/2016

Would You Like that Gift Wrapped? A Question About Customer Service

I must say if I had known how well people would react to a blog about the perils of salad, I’d have opened up about IBS a lot earlier. Watch the cracked tiles for more anecdotes, I guess. This week I have been wonderfully, amazingly busy packaging up Etsy orders, most of them for Valentine’s Continue reading

DISCUSS., February 2016, Films, Holidays, Videos

customer service, customer service horror stories, Etsy, Indifferent Ignorance, Ronan Atkinson in ‘Love Actually’, Shopping, would you like it gift wrapped, Zakynthos

03/11/2014

Once More Unto the Rain and British News Channels

I’ve made it back to England in one piece – not even a in-suitcase breakage – and am remembering the art of removing Wellington boots. Should ‘Wellington’ be capitalised? I’ve also been re-learning the TV news, which is different from BBC app news insofar as I can exit the app with a flick of my Continue reading

Fuckin’ Idiots, Holidays, November 2014, Photogenius, Zakynthos

‘Sun Sex and Suspicious Parents’, EU, idiots reading tabloids, Indifferent Ignorance, Laganas, McDonald’s, news, Zakynthos