Oww

One of the highlights of the British winter is black ice, which on tarmac looks identical to wet tarmac. Consequently, while walking the pooch this morning I marched merrily out of a puddle onto the ice and fell flat on my back. I must've lost a few minutes because an elderly lady who was in the distance when I fell was standing over me when I opened my eyes. She didn't know whether to laugh or be worried. I have bruises everywhere but the dog thought it was great fun! He loves it when we get down on the floor nd he can reach to lick us. Another ow! Himself has decided to put a loft access in my writing space. I can understand the sense of it. When the plumber plumbed in the radiators on the top floor he made life easy for himself by putting water pipes across the other loft access so we can't reach anything that is stored up there [the man was an idiot]. So yes, it's a job that needs doing. But I wish he'd used dustsheets. Now I have books, papers, PC etc smothered in gritty Victoria plaster dust and bits of loft insulation, and a big hole in the ceiling through which a deluge of icy air streams and warm air wells up. I'd probably be more amused by this if I wasn't sore and achey and still a bit damp with dog spit.

Brrrrrrr

Deeply frustrated because it's just too cold to write. I've been sitting upstairs at my table and when I'd got up to 3 blankets, extra socks and an hat I gave up. Blue is a colour that doesn't suit my hands. So I'm reading instead! :)

WHY blogger - just why?

Am I the only one baffled by the changes to the dashboard? It's a confusing mess rather than a tidy easily navigable tool. Two out of ten for innovation!

Well that was fun!

I managed to finish my Nanowrimo attempt with 24 hours to spare, in that I made the requisite word count on Tuesday morning. The novel is nowhere near finished. I reckon I have at least another 40k to go - hell, I have nearly 300 Romano-Celts to kill off apart from anything else!

So I'm plugging away at that more slowly now and alternating it with bits of On A Lee Shore, which I absolutely MUST get finished soon. I dearly love my pirates, but I want to get on to the second draft where I tighten everything up and make it more tense. Pirates are fun, tense pirates are even better!

"Alike As Two Bees" is on its travels again. Fingers crossed that it finds a home soon.