Last week was a holiday week. I spent the week in Northumbria with the family, visiting the in-laws and generally relaxing. Saw a lot of ducks, peafowl, horses and dogs.
The journey home was split with a stop off in North Northamptonshire to watch my elder grandson participate in a skateboarding competition.
I think the holiday was mainly about eating, though.
Thanks to the miracle of scheduling, I still managed to publish a personal (creative writing) blog post and a ‘professional’ blog post that I’d written before the holiday.
I also got a couple of good daily outlines from Overclock that I can work with. The week before they had been pretty useless. (Well, not suitable for what I want to convey. I imagine they’d be perfectly reasonable starting points for someone else.)
I made use of the fact that the rest of the family are late risers to keep on top of ‘work’ - see here - but didn’t embark on anything major, so as not to be frustrated by limited time available.
Today (Sunday) I have mainly been working on the reprint of my previous book whilst listening to Junior NRB’s latest EP - “Don’t Be A Fool”, and “Kala”, by M.I.A. ("Paper Planes" is the most beautiful / shocking song; makes me cry everytime I hear it.)
Also, check out this post by 100 Libraries about the rebuilding of the Altadena library after the devastating fires.
Next week is all about the talk. I need to finalise this pretty sharpish so I can practice and refine.