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April 2013 Blogging from A to Z begins here
July 2013 My childhood memories begin with a trailer here
November 2013 Blog Every Day in November contents page
April 2014 contents for Blogging from A to Z
April 2015 contents for Blogging from A to Z
April 2016 contents for Blogging from A to Z
April 2017 contents for Blogging from A to Z
April 2018 contents for Blogging from A to Z
April 2019 contents for Blogging from A to Z
April 2020 contents for Blogging from A to Z
April 2021 contents for Blogging from A to Z
April 2022 contents for Blogging from A to Z
Contents (post by post excluding the sections above)
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2013
Blogging from A to Z April Challenge
Cathedral window patchwork pincushion
What every blogger should know
Promoting blogging to non-blogging friends
No doubt about it – I’m a logomaniac!
Qualia – a personal experience
How can tomorrow affect today?
How do you deal with distractions from writing?
These boots were made for walking
The secret of success is not likes or follows…
I can temporarily live without…
Socialising with bloggers on comment threads
Yesterday was National Poetry Day
Blog Action Day – action for girls and slaves
Introductions Blog every Day in November – please see link above for more posts
Craft group in the Guinness Book of Records? Surely not!
How to adapt a child’s sweater by enlarging the neck opening
What I have learned from reading free books
Voting has opened for the UK Blog Awards
What should I do for my next two hundred posts?
How not to make a hash of hashtags
Eight years of Christmas preparations
When does an idea count as a brainwave?
My blogging year – 2013 in review
2014
Epiphany musings and my thought patterns
Twitter chat hour from a newbie’s point of view
Golden Globes: American Hustle wins three awards
10 things to do in a power cut
New Year’s resolutions revisited
Always something there to remind me
I upgraded my laptop against all the odds
A book review for World Book Day
The heat is on -turned down to low!
I believe my blog’s anniversary is not far off
What Sue wrote – wandering happily
Wherein Sue began to blog daily
Blogiversary and even more daily blogging
Tips for new bloggers on WordPress.com
Review of my year of blogging on Sue’s Trifles
How Google+ may help A to Z Challenge Participants
The mother of the prodigal son
Looking forward to Blogging from A to Z in April
UK Blog Awards 2014 – the Awards Evening
Analysis of blog stats and strategy
UK Blog Awards – the goody bag
Do you pray? Is there any point in praying?
Book review: The Last Queen of Sheba
Book review: Adrian Plass and the Church Weekend
Mixed progress in achieving my targets
Tourist trap (Guest post from Johanne Winwood)
Singular sensation – a ripple of laughter
Technology, tools and loom bands
Alexander McCall Smith – a favourite author
What is the opposite of writer’s block?
How a spectacles case became a picture
Book review: Neither Here nor There
Blog Action Day 2014 Mental vs. Physical Health
Blanket crocheted in four shades
Reading books on my Kindle app
Stats for less frequent blogging
Bring back “ken” and other archaic words
2015
Social media and the difficulties of leading a balanced life
Doll’s trousers and hat (crochet)
Doll’s clothes and “that dress”
How to enlarge a knitted garment without frogging
What I have learned about Social Media during April
Patriotic squares and other motifs
Looking back over five months of 2015
Can a blog post be a list or a list a blog post?
Looking back over three years of blogging
Why having more than one internet-enabled device is almost essential
Book review- Love Triangles by Bobbie Ann Cole
To blog or not to blog, that is the question
What I have learned in October
How to cover a paperback book with adhesive film
2016
The Writing on the Wall – Book review
Book review: finding Myself in Britain
The blog post I nearly forgot to write
Theme Reveal for the A to Z Challenge
Truth is stranger than fiction
A sewing project – girl’s pinafore dress
Looking back and looking forward
Gladys Aylward: A Life for China (Book review)
Writing Day and some new directions
What I have read in October 2016
How to write ten poems in ten days
What else I read in October 2016
How to take control of your own (computer) updates
Another book I read in November and a place worth visiting
Christmas greetings to all my readers
2017
A knitted hat and some baby bootees
List free Blogging from A to Z in April -some tips for WordPress bloggers
What else I read in February 2017
Blogging from A to Z in April theme Reveal
How blogging and social media are enriching my life
Blogging from A to Z in April Challenge
Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson
Tweeting about the Psalms – the first week
A group of books as background to a film
Wishing all my readers a Happy Christmas
Looking back on 2017 and forward to 2018
2018
#Psalmtweets: the last 16 Tweets
Posting daily to social media – the pros and cons
The effect of our decisions on the environment
Theme Reveal for the A to Z Challenge 2018
(See A to Z Challenge 2018 for other posts)
What I read in March and April 2018
Reflections on the A to Z Challenge 2018
The Blogging from A to Z Challenge Road Trip
Why it is good to meet up with other writers
What I read in June 2018 (Part 1)
What I read in June 2018 (Part 2)
What I read in June 2018 (Part 3)
What I read in June 2018 (Part 4) The Lost Words
What I read in August 2018 (Part 1)
A visit to the Lost Words Exhibition
What I read in August 2018 (Part 2)
What I read in September 2018 (Part 1)
What I read in September 2018 (Part 2)
What I read in October (Part 1)
What do you want to be when you grow up?
What I read in October (Part 2)
What I read in November (Part 1)
What I read in November (Part 2)
What I read in December 2018 (Part 1)
2019
What I read in December 2018 (Part 2)
What I read in January 2019 (Part 1)
What I read in January 2019 (Part 2)
What I read in January 2019 (Part 3)
Changing the world: three book reviews
What else I read in February 2019
More books I read in February 2019
What I read in March 2019 (Part 1)
Theme reveal #AtoZChallenge Please see A to Z Challenge 2019 for related posts
What I read in March 2019 (Part 2)
What I read in April 2019 (Part 1) Living prayer and New Life: Reflections for Lent
What I read in April 2019 (Part 2) A New Day by Emma Scrivener
What I read in April 2019 (Part 3) Empire Antarctica
What I read in May 2019 (Part 1) Borderlands
What I read in May 2019 (Part 2) Shadow Doctor the past awaits/ It started with a Tweet
What I read in May 2019 (Part 3) The Perihelix / The Last Runaway
What I read in May 2019 (Part 4) Lady’s Maid /The Wrong Messiah
What I read in June 2019 (Part 1) The Librarian
What I read in June 2019 (Part 2)
Tom’s Midnight Garden/ Ash Princess /Three Things about Elsie
What I read in June 2019 (Part 3) Bookworm
What I read in June 2019 (Part 4) The Ladybird book of Wild Flowers/The quiet Music of Gently falling Snow/Live, Lose, Learn/The Dangers of Family Secrets
What I read in June 2019 (Part5) The Wood
What I read in July (Part 1) Ghost trees
What I read in July (Part 2) Men and Women in Christ
What I read in July (Part 3) Owl Sense / The Man in the Needlecord Jacket/ Storytelling
What I read in August (Part 2)
What I read in August (Part 1)
What I read in September (Part 1)
What I read in September (Part 2)
What I read in September (Part 3)
What I read in October (Part 1)
What I read in October (Part 2)
What I read in October 2019 (Part 3)
What I read in October 2019 (Part 4)
What I read in November 2019 (Part 1)
What I read in November 2019 (Part 3)
My 800th post on Sue’s Trifles
What I read in November 2019 (Part 2)
What I read in December 2019 (Part 1)
2020
What I read in December 2019 (Part 2)
What I read in December (Part 3)
What I read in January (Part 1)
What I read in January (Part 2)
What I read in February 2020 (Part 1)
What I read in February 2020 (Part 2)
Theme Reveal for the 2020 A to Z in April Challenge
What I read in March 2020 (Part 1)
What I read in March 2020 (Part 2)
A to Z Challenge 2020 Links to all posts
What I read in April 2020 (Part 1)
Changes to my blogging and social media habits
What I read in April 2020 (Part 2)
What I read in May 2020 (Part 1)
What I read in May 2020 (Part 2)
What I read in June 2020 (Part 1)
What I read in June 2020 (Part 2)
What I read in July 2020 (Part 1)
What I read in July 2020 (Part2)
What I read in August 2020 (Part 1)
What I read in August 2020 (Part 2)
What I read in August 2020 (Part 3)
What I read in August 2020 (Part 4)
What I read in August 2020 (Part5)
Book review of Recital of Love by Keren Dibbens-Wyatt
2 Books I read in September 2020
3 more books I read in September 2020
A post about writing and blogging
2 books I read in October 2020
Two more books I read in October 2020
Book review – A Beautiful Tapestry by Tracy Williamson
Another 2 books I read in October 2020
Two books I read in November 2020
Paint Chip Poetry Challenge #49
Paint Chip Poetry Challenge 50
Three more books I read in November 2020
Paint chip challenge 51 Baptismal gowns upstairs
Paint chip challenge 52 Silence
Five books I read in December 2020
2021
Abstract poetry paint chip prompt
Ballade paint chip poetry prompt
Five more books I read in December 2020
Two books I read in January 2021
Dramatic monologue paint chip poetry prompt
Ekphrastic poetry paint chip prompt
Two more books I read in January 2021
Two more e-books I read in January 2021
Two e-books I read in February 2021
World Book Day, blogging and lockdown
Book review: Walled City by Maressa Mortimer
A to Z Challenge 2021 (links to all posts and previous challenge pages)
Narrative poem with paint chips
Book review: You Beneath the Skin
Book review and author interview: Not Knowing, but Still Going
Book review: The Garden beyond
Book review: The Thorn of Truth
Beyond the Hills: Book review and author interview
Rondelet Paint chip poetry challenge
Book Review: Three Vicars Talking
Sixain paint chip poetry prompt
Book review: The Voice
Book review: Phoebe: A story
Book review: Three trilogies by John Galsworthy
Book review: Why I am no longer talking to white people about race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Three short books from BorrowBox
Books about writing and reading from BorrowBox
Paint chip 31 word poem – Lazy lizard
Paint chip poem with 31 words – corn maze
Two books about the countryside
Paint chip 31 word poem – breath of fresh air
Paint chip 31 word verse – acorn
Two amazing books inspired by the Bible
Not quite rhyming – slanted paint chips
Sentence fragment paint chip verse
Two books I downloaded from the authors’ websites
Two more library Books I read and enjoyed
Book review: The trials of Isabella M Smugge
Book Review: The Other Daughter by Caroline Bishop
How to knit and crochet an angel
Book Review: Three women and a Boat by Anne Youngson
Book review: The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult
Book review: The Family Tree by Sairish Hussain
Book review: City of Friends by Joanna Trollope
Book review: Write Well compiled by Amy Scott Robinson
Book review: Grandmothers by Salley Vickers
2022
Book review: The Crystal Crypt by Fiona Veitch Smith
Book review: Letters from Father Christmas by JRR Tolkien
Book review: An Engagement with Nature by Jacob McAtear
Book review: How to Raise an Elephant by Alexander McCall Smith
A List of Nature and climate change books reviewed
Book review: A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier
Book Review: The Lie of the Land by Ian Vince
Sue’s Theme Reveal for the #AtoZChallenge 2022
A to Z Challenge 2022 Christmas (links to all posts for the challenge)
Book review: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Book Review: The Wounds of Time by S.L. Russell
Double Meanings paint chip poem
Book review: Where shall we run to? by Alan Garner
Key to the city paint chip poem
Book review: The Blue Salt Road by Joanne M Harris
Paint chip challenge Rain dance
Book review: The Captive’s Crown by Olusola Sophia Anyanwu
Neutral shades paint chip poetry challenge
Book review: The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau by Anthony Hope
Pacific Island Paint chip poem
Book review: The Scarlet Nightingale by Alan Titchmarsh
Three library books I read recently
Book review: The Pilgrim by Joy Margetts
Brisbane: A novel by Eugene Vodolazkin translated by Marian Schwartz
Book review – The Wanderer: Scorned by Natasha Woodcraft
Book Review: Popcorn Poetry by Brendan Conboy
Book review: The Gardener by Salley Vickers
Book review: The Bird Way by Jennifer Ackerman
Book review: Bewilderment by Richard Powers
Book review: One Field of Flowers by John Chambers
Book review: Talking God by Jacci Bulman
Book review: The Book Share by Phaedra Patrick
Book Review and author interview: The continued times of Isabella M Smugge by Ruth Leigh
Book review: Love in the Time of Bertie by Alexander McCall Smith
Book review: On Gallows Down by Nicola Chester
Book Review: The Gallery of Vanished Husbands
Book review: Letters to William by Margaret Stevens
Book review and author interview: The Wanderer Reborn by Natasha Woodcraft
Book Review: Lost Horizon by James Hilton
Looking back over 2022 and forward to 2023
2023
A round-up of book blogging summary posts and reading challenges
How do you know what to write?
Book review and author interview: Friend of God
Book review : Beneath the Tamarisk Tree and interview with Rob Seabrook
Book review and testimony: Friend of God by Rachel Yarworth
Book review: The Insect Crisis by Oliver Milman
Book review: The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
Book Review The Dangerous Dance of Emma JJ by Annie Try
Book Review: Half man, Half poet by Brendan Conboy
Book review: 36 Islands by Robert Twigger
Book review: A History of the Island: A Novel by Eugene Vodolazkin (translated by Lisa C. Hayden)
Book review: The Company of Heaven by Catherin Fox
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