Back from a week's walking in Somerset holiday. Boo-hoo.
Holiday stories are boring, so I won’t subject you to mine. Here, though, are 10 things I learnt last week
1. I don’t go brown. I go pink then red then white again.
2. I’m not as fit as I thought I was (or rather, I’m more unfit!)
3. Not many places genuinely qualify to be called ‘picture postcard’ – but Bossington definitely does.
4. Opium addiction isn’t very nice. I didn’t discover this, I should point out, first hand. We were staying in a house that Samuel Taylor Coleridge visited when he was suffering some particularly unpleasant side-effects of addiction and withdrawal.
5. I wrote the last chapter of my new novel. Yippee. That’s the first draft done. Still loads of work to do, but at least now there’s light at the end of the tunnel.
6. I need to simply say No when asked whether I’d like to see the dessert menu.
7. Don’t believe the leaflet about the walk around Cheddar Gorge. It might be 3 miles but it’s a bloody hard three miles.
8. The tidal stretches of the River Parrett are pretty in a bleak, muddy sort of way.
9. Providing self-catering accommodation and B&B looks like incredibly hard work.
10. It's a fantastic year for blackberries.
You do know that there is alread a queue outside Waterstones near where I live, waiting for the 3rd novel? People are camping out!
I hope you brought back Scrumpy for your all your regular bloggers?
He didn't. And he can't watch his desk every hour of every day...
Well done, Tim for finishing the first draft. I've also done walk round Cheddar Gorge - you're right; blimmin' hard work!
Thanks Mootia. I always remember that saying climbers use about how when you reach the top of a mountain you're only, actually, half way there (because you've still got to get down safely). I think having got the first draft of a novel done is a bit like that!