Life
Visitors and sickness have prevented me from keeping this up to date. That's the bad news. The good news is that I have been doing some serious writing and I am in the process of setting up a Writing Support Group. I have made a new resolution. I am going to plant a tree every day for the rest of my life or until there is no more room or I become infirm. Computers still push me to the edge of madness. I am still using internet cafes I dare not connect my computer to the internet.
My cats are a daily delight. What did I do before they came? They are such good company. I could prefer them to people especially when one is ill. They are so comforting.
Reading and Writing
I spend a great deal of time reading but feel I can never read fast enough to get through the waiting pile. I buy far more than I have time to read. How does one decide what to read and what to leave? I often go on friends' recommendations. If I respect the advisors opinion and /or we have similar tastes this usually leads me to a good book. Often one book leads to two or more others . In the past I could not afford to buy books. I had to borrow them from the library. Thank god for libraries. Now I can afford to buy I'm like a hungry kid in a sweet shop. Recently I bought half a dozen books from a charity shop. Then I logged onto Amazon and gorged myself. Last weekend whilst on a course in the south of France an English book shop was opened for the participants. I could barely carry my bargins away. Now Writers' Forum has so many brilliant reviews I'm in danger of needing what ever is the equivalent of stomach stapling. May be then I'll find the time to write, the lack of which I am always bemoaning.
Change of scene:life change
Lots of people ask what would you do if you won the lottery but since all the things I want to do cost little I'm not sure that it would change my life greatly. However having spent the weekend near the Spanish border in warm sunshine and friendly colourful villages I got to thinking. What would you/I do if you only had six months to live? And if you would make big changes why are you not happy now? Why not do what you really want now, do we / I have to be at death's door before we do what we really want to?
Brittany seemed cold and grey after the South of France. In fact it is cold and grey. But I love the traffic free roads and the warmth of the people. And my house has those three important things location, location, location.
