Sorry this will be a bit late but I am
actually quite surprised that I have managed to find time after all
the busyness of moving in. Why is it that there are always a few very
important but small items that get lost? Where, as an example, is the
spare key to my car that Marcia takes when we are out – and the
spare key to hers that I take? Then there are the cooking tongs: two
pairs, both lost. May have to buy replacements.
It is lovely to be back. We have met so
many people that we knew all those years ago and they have been
overwhelmingly pleased to see us. It really has been a great home
coming.
Marcia is busy dealing with the
editor's notes on the last novel she wrote. These arrived just before
we moved and she decided (quite rightly) that it would not be
possible to give them the attention they deserved if she tried to do
them while there was so much going on. Anyway, she started yesterday
and more or less finished them this afternoon. That means that she
can now free her mind off and let the next bunch of characters start
chatting away and revealing what they have been up to that needs to
be written down.
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| Holne Moor is one of my favourite places and is now just up the road. It will be odd being up there without a dog. |
She already knows something about some
of them and at least one will be a character we met in a previous
novel (although I am not allowed to mention who that might be). Now
we shall have to start trying to find out where it all happens. Under
usual circumstances that is a job for May and June but the weather
was so bad that the few trips we did make were not very productive.
Then, of course, we decided to move. Somehow we need to find this
location before the end of September and – as anyone who has been
down here on holiday will testify – there are a lot of people
around during August and the first couple of weeks in September. It
is lovely to see them but it makes getting around rather slower and
Marcia understandably finds it far harder to 'listen' to her
characters and feel the vibes of the various places when they are too
busy.
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| Next week we hope to go to Totnes where we shall no doubt meet some more old friends. I shall enjoy taking some more photographs of the old town to share with you. |
Transworld produce unproofed copies of
the books for reviewers and so on: Marcia's copies arrived the other
day and they look wonderful. Next week I will share the cover with
you (I have yet to get my scanner up and running so can't do that
today).
Ahhh . . . we have just found those
keys but still no sign of the cooking tongs.
