Is it Me? Or I?

Well, I’ve been back for almost a week, well. five days.  Five frantic, freezing days.  From 30C to 3C.  Bbrrrrr!

Still, my attitude to trips and holidays has become ‘think not with sadness that it is no more, but with gladness that it was’.  And I had a lovely time.

One of the things two long-haul flights and time to myself (sort of!) allowed me to do was catch up on my reading.  I read a couple of great books, a couple of mediocre ones and one that I didn’t enjoy at all.  But one thing that jumped out and … Read the rest »

From my little bit of Paradise…

Well, here I am!  I’m writing this from my lovely little green house in Five Islands, Antigua.  I arrived yesterday after a very comfortable journey.  My local taxi driver Dave picked me up on time and we had an easy run-through to LGW.  The flight was an hour late but as I’d booked to fly Upper Class – BECAUSE I’M WORTH IT!! – I spent it in the Virgin Clubhouse.  I was then buggied to the gate – just as well as it was Gate 32 (why do the flights I take never leave from Gate 1?) and I couldn’t … Read the rest »

Sweet Lady, Sweet Moment…

Aaahhh!

That, is a huge sigh of relief.  My latest book has now been published.

Each book is something special and unique to its writer.  To me it’s my child, who I want looking her best before she goes out; I don’t want any criticism of her, just for people to approve of her.  And because i want them to enjoy the book I go over and over it, tweaking here and there, changing one word, sometimes a whole sentence, sometimes raising an eyebrow at what I’d written in the first place.  She is also my employee.  Each novel “works” … Read the rest »

Mindgames

I was thinking about my lovely friend M this morning, who is half way up Machu Picchu at the moment, raising money for St Oswald’s Hospice. What a wonderful, loving person she is; she does so much for charities and other people. As my mind wandered along these lines I realised that it’s four weeks tomorrow until she comes with me to the Employment Tribunal, brought about by my being unfairly dismissed from my job over my fabulous holiday-read erotic novel Singles’ Holiday.
However, the post brought a letter from the Tribunal saying that the Respondent has asked for a … Read the rest »