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Busy doing nothing................... @ 10:54 pm
cheerfulI haven't posted for ages. I seem to have been a lot busier than usual, although I can't really think what I've been doing, except getting on with my novel while sitting in my lovely flowery yard.
Even though we haven't had lots of hot sunshine, still it's been pretty warm out there and the sun comes out from time to time.
Last Friday we had Lucy diagnosed with a blocked radiator, in spite of it being flushed at least twice, so today John took Lucy in to Keith to have a radiatorectomy. Someone is going to collect it from Keith (the mechanic) and flush it out really well, then Keith will put it back in and we'll see whether that's done the trick. If not it will have to be a new, or at least new-to-us radiator. It's so maddening, not to mention the possibility that it will be very expensive.
I was supposed to go to a CT Board meeting in West Bromwich today, but with Lucy in car-hospital I couldn't do it. In any case, I'm not sure it would be good for John's gout to drive so far. It's slowly getting better but he's been really poorly and has had to miss a couple of treats because of it.
Anyway, we must get Lucy working properly because my Sis is coming to see us in a couple of weeks and I have lots of days out planned.
My netbook is finally connecting to the network wirelessly in the yard which is great because I can check on stuff in Wikipaedia without having to come indoors, come upstairs, turn on the PC and check from here.
Today I've hardly written anything, though, because I'm having to go back and make a timeline précis of what has happened so far day by day; I've started making continuity errors and forgetting who from my dramatis personae my heroine has already met and when she met them. I wouldn't mind, but I'm only on Day Five of the narrative!!! I'm beginning to worry whether I'm going to be able to finish it in a reasonable amount of words; for a fantasy novel, it shouldn't really be more than about 160,000 words.
I'm also worrying whether it's boring; I don't find it so myself, but then I wouldn't, would I? I'm going into a great deal of detail for the first week or so of the narrative and can't help worrying whether other people would find it boring. I suppose I shall just have to finish this introductory period and get someone to read it. I don't know who, though, as Charles refuses to do so. I suspect he thinks it will be rubbish and doesn't want the responsibility of telling me so.
I think I might perhaps send it to Eileen, a small publisher I know who publishes tiny poetry pamphlets. I happen to know she's writing a fantasy novel for children herself, so maybe she would be able to advise me as to whether it's rubbish or not.
Or I could just send it to my friends Heather and Jeanne................. I'm pretty sure they would be candid.
I've been having a really bad time with my knee for several weeks now and haven't been able to go to cardiac rehab at the gym because it's been so painful. However, I finally saw the physiotherapist last Wednesday and even though I'm not doing the exercises as often as she said I should (life is just too short), still it's improved quite a bit. I must make an effort to remember to do them three times a day, because I'd really like to be much better by the time my Sis comes.
It's been a bit sobering for the last couple of weeks when John and I have both had leg problems and have only had two functioning legs between us, because I rely on him so much to do the trotting about for me. Charles is very willing, but he doesn't drive and he has anxiety problems when he has to walk far alone . Not only that but Netto has shut down and it's miles to any other supermarket. We didn't use it much, but it was there just around the corner in case of emergency!
Oh Good Grief! Look at the time. I'm trying to get early nights at the moment now that I can actually sleep after what felt like weeks of sleepless nights owing to knee pain.
I hope we have another pleasant day tomorrow. I find I get far more writing done out in the yard than I was ever able to do here at my PC.
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