tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85298039777539155932024-03-14T04:08:27.063+00:00Author Teresa GeeringAuthor T K Geeringhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811208566475939610noreply@blogger.comBlogger294125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529803977753915593.post-51308804406020986302024-03-09T16:06:00.003+00:002024-03-09T16:17:21.909+00:00I finally get interviewed ... by .....<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hello my little chickadees,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It's been far too long since I last wrote a blog. I know! What can I say? I've been busy, busy, busy. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I thought I'd done with the Whitechapel Murders as a stand alone, but I was asked time and again for a sequel, so I've been working on that. Lots more research to do, as I'm taking it in a slightly different direction, which in turn will make for a far bigger word count, which will please my readers. One in particular. A member of the UKCBC who resides in the USA. The link to my page, where you can view Whitechapel, along with all my other books is at the end of the interview... <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For the last 8 years I've been a member of the UK Crime Book Club. It has 27.3k members and I'm now one of the admins, so that takes up quite a bit of my time. If you're interested in reading crime and enjoy live interviews with the authors, or offline for those that are a bit camera shy, pop along to their facebook page and knock on the door.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I little while ago I put a request out for someone to interview me, as I hadn't been interviewed outside of the UKCBC since, forever. Everyone seemed to be so busy and nothing happened so ... I thought I'd get my alter ego TeeGee to interview me and it went like this. Why do you think they call me Mad Tee?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>T K Geering: </b>It's very kind of you to take time out of your very busy schedule to interview me.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>TeeGee: </b>It's a pleasure TK. So tell me all about yourself. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>T K Geering:</b> I was born and bred in Hastings, Sussex. I loved living by the sea and spent many a happy hour, standing on the harbour wall, allowing the sea to do it's worst. My parents despaired, but I loved it. Back then I had quite long hair, which blew everywhere. I lived in tight jeans, a long 'beatnik' jumper, frequently no shoes and the soles of my feet were like leather, and I thought I looked pretty cool back then. I was in a rebellious stage, as I had passed a scholarship and was being educated in a catholic convent/college by Irish nuns. As you can imagine, there was an extremely strict uniform rule, winter and summer. White gloves were compulsory at all times in the summer when we left the confines of the college, and there were snitches around to report any offenders. Nuns, checked over each of us </span>daily<span style="font-family: inherit;">, before we left and detentions were thrown about with exceptional ease, if you didn't have the gloves, hat </span>and correct<span style="font-family: inherit;"> footwear. The nuns had very high standards and we had to uphold them. Out of college was a different matter, hence the rebellion. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My claim to fame, is that my great grandfather was a founder member of the world famous, Winkle Club of which the royal family, endless dignitaries and showbiz personalities are members, but also, one of my ancestors was the Guestling Murdress, or Murdering Mother, 1800-1849. Oh yes! but that's a story for another day. These days I reside quietly in Kent, the garden of England. Although, some parts of it are starting to become more of a concrete jungle. - 'Oh, there's a green space, let's put a few flats in there'. (eye rolls)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When the weather is warmer, I write in my summerhouse, or sit on its wide veranda, watching the sun go down with a glass of wine. My beautiful, part Siamese, part moggy cat of 23 years, died many years ago and is buried in the garden with another family cat. I often feel him around me when I’m in the garden or writing. So these days I have an "It's not my cat!" who pops in and out when the urge takes him. There's also a randy, renegade squirrel called Cyril, who fights the birds for their food, when he's not making yet another family in the surrounding trees. I thought the endless pigeons, mating in the garden and on my fence were bad enough, but he beats them claws down. Scheesh. I also love pottering in the garden, just to see what the wildlife have been up to. It’s just wonderful to be amongst nature. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hobbies, well writing of course, but I love to beach combe and I’m a bit of a conchologist. I made a jewellery box from bits and bobs found on the local beach. I love pottering in the garden and I've recently been checking it out after our winter has taken its long toll. There's a lot to be done, but I have friends who like to come and help out.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>TeeGee:</b> It sounds idyllic TK. So when did your writing journey start? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>T K Geering: </b>It began whilst I was sitting in my garden, on midsummer's eve back in 2011. I got an idea for a story revolving around fantasy. From that small idea, Erasmus, the time travelling lover with attitude was born. Here's a bit of the blurb ... Whilst sitting in his warm cave, he peered into his wood fire and saw an image of a beautiful woman. She was living in a different time frame and he decided to travel through time to meet her. So begins a new life for him as he travels back and forth through time... It ended up as a trilogy at the time with an element of unexpected crime, but has now evolved into one book called Soulfate. Since then I have gone on to write many books, the latest being the Whitechapel Murders, which was received very well. I have also written many, many, short stories, some of which are published in the UKCBC short story section.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>TeeGee: </b>So how did you find your publisher?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>T K Geering:</b> Back then in 2011, I made use of the writers and artists year book and submitted to every publisher that I could find and ... I ended up with a drawer full of rejections, which I've still got! However I had faith in the book and refused to give up. I joined a group called Struggling Authors, initially started by Richard Grayling. His idea was to help struggling authors where he could and eventually I met many authors in the same situation as me, several of whom, I'm facebook friends with to this day. Richard was also a struggling author, but he put his writing to one side, to mentor me and for that I will be eternally grateful. He asked me to interview a publisher, who unbeknown to me had read the various chapters I had put up on Authonomy. Long story short, he asked to publish the book through his publishing house, Taylor Street Publishers in San Francisco. It went from strength to strength and got to #3 on Amazon in it's category. We eventually parted company and I'm now with Wild Wolf Publishing. I couldn't be happier.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>TeeGee: </b>Where do you get your inspiration from, for your books?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>T K Geering:</b> Basically I’m a people watcher and regardless of where I am, I’m eyeing up prospective characters. (I always prefer to sit facing a door.) That couple in the pub sitting so close, are they conducting an illicite affair? Is he/she planning to murder the other? My friends have got used to it now, but they enlighten their own friends they introduce me to, that they could end up in one of my books. I have that wandering eye I guess.<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>TeeGee: </b>How many books have you written?<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>T K Geering: </b>Well Soulfate is a trilogy of the Erasmus stories, but nine in total, with a couple of WIP’s lurking on the laptop in folders. I have written endless short stories, which one day, I might approach my current publisher to put out there. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>TeeGee: </b>Are you a plotter or a pantser? And do you have a writing routine?<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>T K Geering:<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b>Well I start out as a plotter and then get a bit bored and want to start writing the story. So I guess I’m more of a pantser really. However, I’m permanently unprepared, when I have to stop writing to check on a research matter and as many authors will tell you, this leads you on a long journey of …”Oh that looks interesting. I wonder what that’s all about” and you find that an hour later you have gone down a completely different route with research, but it’s fun and informative. As for a routine, well when I’m writing everything gets ignored. Spiders spin webs to their hearts content and laugh at me. I stop to eat, drink, think and plot. Most of all, I love it when the characters hijack the story and I just sit back and watch where they take it to. Sometimes there is a fair bit of deletion going on, but overall I give them their head just out of curiosity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>TeeGee: </b>Favourite food/drink?<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>T K Geering: </b>Mmmm Ribeye Steak with all the usuals, or even with just a salad, but of course red wine to accompany. Favourite non alcoholic drink? A cup of tea usually, but also a coffee of any type, black or white. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>TeeGee: </b>Have you any WIP at the moment, or anything due to be/recently published? <span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>T K Geering:</b> I do have two WIP’s at the moment. One is a prequel to the Erasmus series as stated above, which I WILL finish one day. The other is about a police assassin, which is totally out of my comfort zone but I’m determined to finish it. Both are several chapters in. Recently published is The Whitechapel Murders. A story set in Victorian London dealing with body snatchers, dubious street vendors and an inspector that is trying to solve the Jack the Ripper murders. It seems to be selling well at the moment so that is pleasing. As stated above, I'm writing the sequel at the moment and yes ... I will finish it as soon as I can, I promise!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>TeeGee: </b>Why have you chosen to write fantasy and crime?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>T K Geering: </b>Actually I didn't choose to write fantasy, it seemed to choose me. I'm a great believer of faeries and the little people ... and I can hear you laughing, right at the back there. I'm told my garden has an ethereal feel about it. That's why I enjoy writing out there, especially in the summer and it's where most of my inspiration comes from. - Not necessarily from the bottom of a bottle, even though it relaxes me and allows the characters a bit of leeway to do their own thing if they want to. As for crime, well that's down to 27 years working as a volunteer for my local police force, helping to train officers through role play etcetera, which is well documented in other conversations I've had. I have so many, many, stories secreted away in the recess of my mind. Probably unbelievable to some, but I was there and saw it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>TeeGee: </b>Why do you chose to interview other authors?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>T K Geering: </b>Good question. When I first started on my writing journey, I was given a helping hand as stated above. There are many novice authors out there, that have written exceptional books, but never been given an opportunity to be published. Many give up and self publish, but I like to pay on my good fortune.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>TeeGee: </b>Any other interviews coming up?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>T K Geering: </b>Not that I'm aware of. Ironically I always seem to be an interviewer as opposed to an interviewee. So I'm totally indebted to you for the interview. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>TeeGee: </b>You're welcome.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is a link to T K Geering's author page <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=t+k+geering&i=digital-text&crid=3NHKZNB6YZ9ZB&sprefix=T+K+Geer%2Cdigital-text%2C84&ref=nb_sb_ss_fb_1_8"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit, serif;">https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=t+k+geering&i=digital-text&crid=3NHKZNB6YZ9ZB&sprefix=T+K+Geer%2Cdigital-text%2C84&ref=nb_sb_ss_fb_1_8</span></u><o:p></o:p></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit, serif;"><br /></span></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693334px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.120001px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div>Author T K Geeringhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811208566475939610noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529803977753915593.post-2669610070767766882022-02-26T16:02:00.000+00:002022-02-26T16:02:14.747+00:00Back in the saddle<p> Hello my little chickadees, how is everybody? I haven't done one of these for a while.</p><p>I got a writing block at the beginning of the pandemic, nada zilch, nothing, seriously. I found it very depressing because each time I opened one of my W.I.P. the cursor just blinked at me willing me to do something, but I just closed them up again.</p><p>When my publishers Wild Wolf released the anthology Another Bloody Christmas, I became excited as one of my short stories was included - A Corpse for Christmas - which was set in Victorian times. It's about a meat pie vendor, body snatchers and Jack the Ripper. One of my readers questioned why I didn't turn it into a novel and then another asked the same question. On a whim, I opened up the document and started to read it again. Hallelujah I suddenly realised that I was starting to expand the story and one thing led to another. I'd started out with 2,000 and by the time I'd finished there were 19,000+, so a bit of a bonus. The first draft is now with my beta readers, whilst I sit with bated breath awaiting their thoughts and unbelievably still tweaking my copy. I'm obviously back!</p><p>In the past, I've lectured to students at a local college on creative writing, but on one occasion the tutor of a mechanical engineering course that I'd met over coffee, asked if I would talk to them about my writing regime, as he thought it would help with their report writing to which I agreed. He specified that each of the students could ask me one question and I would respond by email and they could be discussed on my next visit. I was quite amused by some of the questions and I thought I would put them here with my responses. It also gives a background into my writing history.</p><p>Q - <b>What car do you drive and do you like it? If so, why? </b></p><p>A. I used to own a silver mini back in the day, that I called Melvin because part of the index was MEL. I don't drive now and prefer to be chauffeured around.</p><p>Q - <b>Are you interested in cars?</b></p><p>A - Not really. As long as it's got good brakes and four good tyres, it's good for me.</p><p>Q - <b>Do you have any pets?</b></p><p>A - I had a cat that lived to be 23 years old, but he got feline dementia and had to go for a slow walk over the rainbow bridge. I do have a family of squirrels that live in the trees in my garden and they constantly wreck it burying their nuts. They usually have stand up fights with the magpies. They tease them and then fly up just out of reach.</p><p>Q - <b>What's your dream of becoming in the book world?</b></p><p>A - Probably writing a book which was considered good enough to turned into a TV series perhaps, or a mega best seller. Having said that, Soulfate reached #3 on Amazon back in 2011. I actually wrote it for YA but it was read mainly by adults, who seemed to enjoy it judging by the ranking. If I wrote it today I would probably write it completely differently.</p><p>Q - <b>What made you think about writing books and how do you feel when you have finished a book?</b></p><p>A - I suppose I've always had a story inside of me from way back at college. I loved writing essays, but never seemed to have time to complete them in the allotted 40 minute lesson, which was very frustrating. When I have finished writing a book there is a sense of satisfaction, that I've at least had some input as my characters do tend to take over from me sometimes. I just sit back and go along for the ride. I do have to reign them in though from time to time.</p><p>Q - <b>What made you go into writing and what inspires you?</b></p><p>A - I was sitting in my garden at sunset back in 2011 watching a spider spinning a web and I started to think about faeries and the little people. A story began to form in my mind and I got a note pad and biro but I couldn't keep up with the ideas, so I swopped over to a tape recorder. From there, my main characters Shasta and Erasmus were born. They must have been sitting waiting to be written, because I wrote the trilogy in just over six weeks working all day and sometimes at night. I loved reading as a child and I was always the young girl reading in the library. Sadly libraries often take a back seat these days, as we favour the internet in general for information. To me a library is the world at your fingertips, but now of course the world is at the end of your fingertips on screens. There is nothing like the enticing smell of a book in a library though.</p><p>Q - <b>Why did you change from fantasy to crime?</b></p><p>A - Actually I didn't choose fantasy, more the other way around! It's a great world to escape into. A point in question would be the HP book series. Ironically my writing style was compared to J.K. Rowling, oh, and C.S. Lewis of the Chronicles of Narnia fame. Sometimes you just need to stretch yourself towards another genre and for me it was a natural progression with crime. My first attempt was called Poison for Two, which seemed quite popular in an online book club I belong to.</p><p>Q - <b>If someone wanted to become a writer what advice would you give?</b></p><p>A - The first thing is never ever give up! I would suggest joining a creative writing course, where you will have the chance to get your work critiqued and in turn critique others which can be helpful to a writer as it gives an opportunity to see other writers writing styles. You will get good honest feedback, but you also have to be prepared for it to be pulled apart, which can be soul destroying especially if you think you have written something exceptional. You just have to take it on the chin because they may just be right. I have a draw full of rejections from agents and publishers, but I knew my work was good and refused to give up.</p><p>Q - <b> What is your favourite book?</b></p><p>A - One of my favourite books is called Dudes Down Under, written by an Australian author, Suzannah Burke. It's a comedy about a tame crocodile called Cyril, that lives in an 'A' listed hotel frequented by the movie stars and insists on being dressed in dinner suits for dinner. He drinks beer straight from the can and loves swaying to 1940's music and song. He sleeps off his hangovers in whatever bedroom he's closest to, which can be a bit tricky for guests! Unfortunately it's now out of print.</p><p>Q - <b>What inspires you to write books?</b></p><p>A - Anything really. I might be sitting in a pub or restaurant and spot a couple drinking or dining. Is he/she showing enough attention to the partner? or maybe he/she is planning a murder. It could be a painting in a shop or gallery window that sparks my interest. Does it talk to me suggesting a story?</p><p>Q - <b>Where did you source you information to write about crime?</b></p><p>A - 27 years as a volunteer with Kent Police, working with neighbourhood police officers that knock on doors with their boots. Also helping to train police officers through role plays amongst other things. How to treat an offender or victim for instance. I was usually the 'victim' that had been 'robbed' or playing the part of a missing person, or maybe I was a potential suicide. How would they deal with me, which is where their training came in. I also went with an officer to a sudden death which gives an insight as to what happens next. Going out in patrol cars and yes I have been out with patrol officers back in the day with the sirens etc. As I became more experienced I got drawn further into the 'inner sanctums'. All of the above gave me ideas for stories.</p><p>Q - <b> What has been your favourite book that you have written?</b></p><p>A - Oh that's a very tricky one as all my books are my babies. If I have to chose it would be Ghosts of Timeless Cottage which I set in Hastings my home town. I set it in my great grandparents/grandparents cottage. The story of a Houses of Parliament PA, that inherits a cottage, that is haunted by sea faring ghosts that are a 100 years old. She gets to write one of the ghosts life story.</p><p>Q - <b> What sort of titles do you think interests readers?</b></p><p>A - This is an exceptional question; thank you! If you were to ask several different authors they would probably each give a different answer. Personally I like short snappy titles, that roll off of the tongue. Usually you know when you have the right title. Mine range from single words, including Soulfate, Merlin, to Sleeping with the Gods, Mirror of Darkness, Poison for Two, Another Bloody Christmas and Police Assassin which is a W.I.P. still. Other authors, may well fill up the cover with a title if they feel it's relevant. It's finally down to the publisher in my case I guess but I have an exceptional graphic designer.</p><p>Q - <b> Did your teen years include any crime?</b></p><p>A - This question cracked me up. I would probably say, that's for me to know and you to wonder! However to enable me to work with the police I was vetted and the clearance I hold goes up as far as anti terrorism by Special Branch and the Home Office - I was given to understand when I asked.</p><p>Q - <b>What is the worst crime that you had to deal with?</b></p><p>A - An unexpected Domestic Violence situation when I was visiting someone. The husband came in drunk and became violent. I managed to distance myself and the family and called the police. If you mean while I was working with the police I was extremely well protected and they ensured I was never in any danger. In my opinion, probably child abuse of any kind is one of the worst crimes, or DV against either sex. In this day and age, also County Lines where drug dealers entice youngsters into selling drugs for them. They get in so deep they can't see a way out. Fortunately I've never had any experience of that except through training as spoken about above.</p><p>Q - <b>How do you identify getaway car?</b></p><p>A - Another question that cracked me up. A driver revving the engine to full capacity, while wearing a ski mask and then burning rubber usually does it for me! OR a car being driven at speed with police cars in pursuit with maybe a stinger.</p><p>Q - <b> Who publishes your book and how many have you written?</b></p><p>A - I have written 8 books which are published by Wild Wolf Publishing, including a trilogy and I have 2 W.I.P. I've also written endless short stories that have been published in a private book club and of course endless poems.</p><p>Thank you for such interesting and varied questions.</p><p><br /></p><p>So there you have it. That all seems so long ago now. I'll update you on my current book as it goes through the editing process.</p><p>Laters Potaters.</p>Author T K Geeringhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811208566475939610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529803977753915593.post-9255257439108694092021-05-17T10:50:00.001+01:002021-05-17T10:50:44.945+01:00Author Spotlight on B A Morton<p>Hello my little chickadees</p><p>How are you today? We now have a bit more freedom and I'm wondering if you have taken advantage of hugging someone. After around 18 months in lockdown I would have hugged a rabid dog if he'd let me. I settled for my granddaughter who threw her arms around me and didn't want to let go. Quite an emotional moment for both of us.</p><p>Recently I interviewed Babs Morton who writes under the name of B.A. Morton. Babs is an exceptional writer but my favourite thing about her is the fact that she lived in a haunted cottage. We've had many conversations about that in the past. Here she is. Hello Babs.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K9yzYO0k1l0/YKI1JNLCJGI/AAAAAAAABvM/w5kXIjR35k0BR6o2o7swlXNHFXYG48eygCNcBGAsYHQ/s206/B%2BA%2BMorton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="203" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K9yzYO0k1l0/YKI1JNLCJGI/AAAAAAAABvM/w5kXIjR35k0BR6o2o7swlXNHFXYG48eygCNcBGAsYHQ/w197-h200/B%2BA%2BMorton.jpg" width="197" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Would you like to introduce yourself?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="" dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="ecm0bbzt hv4rvrfc ihqw7lf3 dati1w0a" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_ri" style="font-family: inherit; padding: 4px 16px 16px;"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d9wwppkn fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Hi Tee and thanks for the opportunity of this interview. I’m a bookaholic with a soft spot for Border Terriers, gardening and chocolate. I was a civil servant for many years, a GP receptionist, a miniature house painter, (miniature houses not miniature me, although I am on the short side) and once upon a time I also popped the pineapple onto French bread pizzas (do those things still exist?) The mantra of ye olde Findus factory drummed into all of us production drones was ‘Never NEVER stop the line!’ ... time’s money etc. As one who was almost buried alive by a runaway line full of crispy pancakes, I can assure you, if in doubt - stop the bleedin’ line! For a number of years my hubby and I lived in a haunted cottage built on the foundations of a medieval chapel, which provided lots of inspiration for my vivid imagination. Now we live in a regular house near Newcastle, which is far easier for babysitting grandbabies.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Tell me about your day to day writing schedule. Is there a routine?</b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I don’t have a writing routine. I do scribble notes and flashes of inspiration on scraps of paper and stuff them under my keyboard - and forget they’re there. I tend to write in the evening when there are no distractions i.e. binge watching crime series like Line of Duty. I work better with a deadline or someone nagging me to ‘get on with it’.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What genre do you write in and how many books have you written?</b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I primarily write crime fiction/psychological crime - my preference to read and write, although I do also have a historical series (Templar knights, clashing swords and treasure - lots of treasure!) I’ve just published my tenth book, a Newcastle crime thriller ‘The Favour Bank’ (Good cops, bad cops, and not sure which side they’re on cops.) I’m a member of the Crime Writers Association and the International Thriller Writers.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Favourite food and drink?</b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Hmm, a nice mug of tea and a chocolate digestive biscuit.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What are your thoughts if your characters take over writing the story?</b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> Oh this happens all of the time, I mean, who on earth do they think they are? I say to them, ‘Hey, I made you!’ and they just shrug and do whatever they like. ‘Solve the bleedin’ crime,’ I say, “All in good time,’ they reply. Huh, they forget I have the power. I have the delete key!</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>When did you first start writing seriously?</b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I suppose it was about 2010. I joined Authonomy, a writer’s site/community. Made some good friends, who are still friends today, and I learned a lot. I was fortunate and won second place in The Yeovil Prize literary Competition 2011 with my debut crime novel ‘Mrs Jones’ and just kept on writing. My psychological thriller ‘Bedlam’ was a finalist in the 2020 Wishing Shelf Awards.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Any exciting WIP for us to look forward to?</b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I’m currently writing The Crow Killer’s Daughter, book two in my new series set in Newcastle. Other projects include sequels to ‘Bedlam’ and ‘Twisted’.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>If you could take a character out of one of your books and entertain them for the night, who would it be and from which book?</b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Haha, I think it would have to be Spook, from my crime thriller ‘Twisted’. She is absolutely bonkers and game for just about anything! It would definitely be a wild night! If I had to pick a bloke, then it would be DS Joe McNeil from Bedlam. That guy really needs a break, God love him.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Your favourite book written by another author.</b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You know, I have so many favourite books from so many different genres. I could write you a list and still miss out some blindingly good reads. So instead I’ll just say anything written by John Connolly and leave it at that. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Links to your books</b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">You can find all of my books on Amazon – and you could ‘follow’ me, if you had a mind to, to keep up with any new releases: (To clarify – I don’t mean follow me home because that would just be weird)</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; white-space: normal;"><b>Links to Babs books:</b></span><span style="background-color: #f0f2f5; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 0.9375rem; white-space: normal;"><b> </b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl py34i1dx gpro0wi8" href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/B-A-Morton/e/B0089L6NOY/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1?fbclid=IwAR0l1w2IbGNNL_wohVEDvBvCd4kxY767T0ra2zXcBDxf3aecXr1cGS9lMrE" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--blue-link); cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 0.9375rem; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; white-space: normal;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.co.uk/.../ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1</a></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I have read several of Babs books and I can highly recommend them.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Laters Potaters</div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div>Author T K Geeringhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811208566475939610noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529803977753915593.post-79507241736148873462021-04-30T11:51:00.002+01:002021-04-30T11:51:40.473+01:00Pure Talent<p> Hello my little chickadees,</p><p>How are you all today? Oh really? Never mind I'm sure you'll get over it in time. I'm wearing my sympathetic coat today. Did you notice?</p><p>On my blog today we have the multi talented Rod Glenn. Not just an amazing writer in the crime/horror genres, but a talented actor as well. Oh, and he also owns a publishing house with approximately 90 authors which include, a former X factor finalist, the brother of murder victim Lesley Ann Downey, a former darts champion, a couple of former detectives, and me! He’s also a big Reacher fan. So, let’s introduce him to you.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rGnKQHc6DT4/YIvUd2Bb2vI/AAAAAAAABuo/VSm2n6ozm1ct6meWLS4w_aG9xqkfo3EjACNcBGAsYHQ/s366/ROD%2BGLENN%2BPHOTO.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="366" height="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rGnKQHc6DT4/YIvUd2Bb2vI/AAAAAAAABuo/VSm2n6ozm1ct6meWLS4w_aG9xqkfo3EjACNcBGAsYHQ/w400-h225/ROD%2BGLENN%2BPHOTO.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Thanks Tee. I’m Rod Glenn and I live in Newcastle, in the North East of England and lived equally in the library and on the stage growing up, with an acute love of books and acting (even though, perversely, I was extremely shy). I grew up in the 70s and 80s during the decline of the mines and shipbuilding, which were the two main industries in the area. It was a pretty bleak time, so I lost myself in books, films and television. I started writing short stories from a very young age, usually based on stories I had read or seen on the screen. I quickly discovered H G Wells, Lovecraft, Poe, Tolkein etc and never looked back. Long before I probably should have been reading them, I began devouring the likes of Stephen King, James Herbert and Dean R Koontz. Then later, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Hunter S Thompson, Richard Matheson and then into crime and true crime.</p><p><b>How many books have you written Rod and what genre are they? </b></p><p>I currently have seven published novels and then short stories in a number of anthologies. My most well known are the Sinema trilogy, based on a film-obsessed serial killer (crime thrillers with a horror edge to them), </p><p>The King of America (an epic sci-fi fantasy inspired by Frank Herbert’s Dune), </p><p>The Killing Moon (a UK-based post-apocalyptic thriller, inspired by I Am Legend and Mad Max), </p><p>Slaughterville (a surrealist re-telling of the first Sinema novel) No Chance In Hell (an action horror taking inspiration from The Magnificent Seven and Aliens).</p><p>Tee Edit: Having read most of them, I can highly recommend them and no, Rod didn’t pay me to say that.</p><p><b>UK Crime Book Club mainly focuses on crime novels; how would your books fit into this slot? </b></p><p>I tend to start writing a story without a genre in mind – I focus on the characters and the plot and then they tend to fall into one or more genres. The Sinema series and Slaughterville are the ones that the UKCBC members will probably be most interested in.</p><p><b>What is your favourite pastime? </b></p><p>Reading, watching films and listening to music. A good writer HAS to be a voracious reader as well, and of all genres. Read old and new and everything in between. Recent books I’ve read include a Richard Burton biography, a Lee Child, (Gotta love a bit of Reacher) a true crime book on serial killers and some H P Lovecraft.</p><p><b>Have you a favourite food/drink? </b></p><p>I love all sorts of food dishes and love to cook as well. I do a mean lasagne and chilli, but I guess my favourite has to be a traditional roast dinner (either beef or turkey). Drinks wise, I’m particularly partial to whiskies and bourbons when the light fades and coffee through the day.</p><p><b>You own the Wild Wolf Publishing company, alongside Lupin Publishing Rod; What genres do the authors write in? Do they interact at all and are any of them actually sane? </b></p><p>I set up Wild Wolf back in 2007 to publish predominantly dark fiction, as I felt that it was being overlooked by the big publishers and there was a mass of unpublished talent out there, who were being ripped off by vanity presses masquerading as traditional publishers. I’ve since opened up the books to anything that grabs my attention. I don’t care what genre anymore – if I think it’s worthy of publication we’ll publish it. We’ve published a lot of crime, obviously, but also sci-fi, horror, fantasy, historical fiction, true crime, biographies and children’s books. Lots of the Wild Wolf/Lupin authors have become friends and interact with each other socially – we like to think of Wild Wolf as being a family community. In my experience (myself included), very few writers are sane. You have to be a little unhinged to create the worlds and characters we create. Probably why I love acting too – I think they go hand in hand.</p><p><b>What do you do to relax? </b></p><p>If I’m stressed, I like to listen to music. I have a particular playlist entitled ‘Morose’. It is filled with Leonard Cohen, Kate Bush, Johnny Cash, Frank Sinatra, The Cure, Jim Reeves, Pink Floyd, ELO, Alison Krause, Carol King and a multitude of others. I usually sit in the kitchen drinking bourbon or whisky in silence and get lost in the music. Works for me. Otherwise, a good book or film always does the job too. I also like to work out daily – I think it’s extremely important to balance healthy mind with healthy body. </p><p><b>You have acted with some of the greats of TV and Screen; who was your favourite actor to act alongside. Who was the funniest? </b></p><p>It was absolutely amazing to work with Michael Keaton on American Assassin – he was a lovely, quiet and humble man. Sheridan Smith, Sally Phillips and Jo Brand were hilarious to work with on The More You Ignore Me.</p><p><b>What was the scariest film you starred in? </b></p><p>Got to be Monster (2018) – I play the most horrific serial killer in it. It was a hugely challenging role getting inside the head of such a horrible person, but my research into serial killers for the Sinema books helped a lot to ensure that the character remained human and real, rather than becoming a movie monster like Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees.</p><p><b>How many different dialects/accents have you achieved? </b></p><p>I’ve always listened to and tried to mimic other people’s accents since I was a kid. It must’ve annoyed people over the years, but I couldn’t help myself. I’ve managed to master a few, like standard American, RP, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Cockney, Yorkshire and a few others.</p><p>Links to Rod’s books</p><p><b>Amazon Author page</b>: <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rod-Glenn/e/B0034PNPFU">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rod-Glenn/e/B0034PNPFU</a></p><p><b>Official Facebook page</b>: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rodglennauthoractor">https://www.facebook.com/rodglennauthoractor</a></p><p><b>Twitter</b>: <a href="https://twitter.com/rodglenn">https://twitter.com/rodglenn</a></p><p><b>YouTube Channel:</b> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm34Rk0Z7JriKLVHokGjRLQ">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm34Rk0Z7JriKLVHokGjRLQ</a></p><p><b>Instagram: </b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/roddglenn/ ">https://www.instagram.com/roddglenn/ </a></p><p><b>IMDb:</b> <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5406988/">https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5406988/</a> </p><p>So there you have the brilliantly talented Rod Glenn and if you're interested in live author interviews, little known author interviews, with lots of other exciting things going on connected to authors, or just want to read about crime, then join us both at the UKCBC of which we are both members. Here's the door to knock on... <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/ukcrimebookclub" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/ukcrimebookclub</a></p><p>Laters Potaters</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Author T K Geeringhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811208566475939610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529803977753915593.post-62739278699648913682021-04-06T13:07:00.004+01:002021-04-06T13:09:18.020+01:00The jewell was a cop<p>Hello my little chickadees. </p><p>Well there's a lot of tumbleweed moving about my author victim cave today. I really think it's about time I purloined a few more bodies to hang up and torture.They only need to spill the beans about their books, what they're up to and a little bit about themselves. I can't help it, if I'm the nosy type and it's for their benefit after all. It's looking decidedly tidy now that there is no blood, guts and torn limbs etc laying about. It can be quite unnerving you know. I'm just not used to it being this quiet. I do like the constant moaning and screaming I hear, when I prod with my taser. I nicked it from a previous victim and I can put it to much better use. Having said all that, as I wandered through the recesses at the back I did find a couple of dead mice that were quite suitable as a quick snack.</p><p>Oh and belated Happy Easter egg day. I bet there were loads buried in your neck of the woods. Did you go on an egg hunt? I haven't done that since I walked the earth as a dinosaur. Stick with me kid, I know many things!</p><p>Today on my blog I have David Jewell. A cop turned crime writer, who at one point was mistaken for a porno author of the same name. Honest. <span style="font-family: inherit;">He’s had thirty one years police experience at the sharp end of some of the toughest areas in the North East and has also received several commendations. His writing captures the voices and attitudes, of a tough, working class Northern city and often the black humour of those who police it. Since then, his retirement has enabled him to get involved in several other occupations as you will discover.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In his debut novel Death Rattle, David introduces you to Detective Inspector Jack Slade of the Homicide and Major Enquiry team, who brings a new dark and gritty realism to the crime writing genre. A body is found stabbed in a notorious Newcastle Upon Tyne gay cruising area. What appears to be a robbery gone wrong, takes a dramatic turn when the identity of the victim is revealed. Slade is drawn into a dark underworld and forced to seek help from people on the fringes of the Newcastle gay scene. Jack finds himself embroiled in a sinister world of sexual exploitation, missing teenagers and murders. His unorthodox policing methods, result in the death of a suspect and he finds himself on the outside shunned by his colleagues and a suspect in a homicide.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So, let’s learn a bit more about David Jewell the author.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LHCHj0M0HIU/YGxLXOVlszI/AAAAAAAABt0/Nkj8HdfdNGIFJ4AT79aEMSfFYWHMPFEOQCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/david%2Bjewell%2Buse%2Bthis%2Bone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1363" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LHCHj0M0HIU/YGxLXOVlszI/AAAAAAAABt0/Nkj8HdfdNGIFJ4AT79aEMSfFYWHMPFEOQCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/david%2Bjewell%2Buse%2Bthis%2Bone.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Who is David Jewell</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I think it’s usual to identify oneself by the occupation that you have at the time. For over thirty one years if you had asked me that question I would have immediately replied with the cliché “Like a stick of rock snap me in half and it reads “cop” from top to bottom.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, over the past four years with the success of my TV Series “Write on” and the Royal Television Society nomination for the political biography “From Pit To Parliament” I would have been able to claim that I was a documentary film maker. Covid has put a temporary halt on that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you ask me today then I would have to say that I am a writer and crime novelist.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Tell us about family members</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I come from a large family and we’re very close. I’m sure that just like everyone reading this during the Covid pandemic I miss my family like crazy. Facetime is a great tool and I now speak to my sister in Australia more often than before the crisis but no amount of zoom or Facetime can compensate for giving loved ones a hug. I’m hoping that the nightmare is over soon, but couldn’t help but smile when my five year old niece told me last week on Facetime “Uncle David… when this is over we’re all having a big party.” I’m so looking forward to that day.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Tell me about your writing routine</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’d love to say that I have a set routine but that would be a fib. I’m envious of my friends like International Crime Writer Mari Hannah who says it is her full time job so she gets up in the morning and writes until late afternoon with a break for lunch. Playwriter and screenwriter Michael Wilcox works in the morning until lunch time but the Horror writer Stephen Laws is the opposite and starts work around Midnight writing throughout the night. When I made a TV documentary on Stephen I called it “The Midnight Man” after one of his novels. I just write when I come up with an idea but once I start I seem to keep going for hours into the night.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Although I am determined to establish a routine … that has been my New Year resolution for a few years now.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What genre do you write in/would you consider other genres?</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’m a crime writer and use my experience of more than three decades as a front line cop to fuel my writing. That being said, I am working on a potential television comedy drama but I’m finding comedy is very difficult as we all have different ideas of what is funny. I find it disconcerting when I watch classic comedy like One Foot in The Grave, Father Ted or Fawlty Towers and think to myself I could never ever be as good as that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Favourite food/Drink.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Probably my favourite type of food is a curry but that is best enjoyed with a pint of English Real Ale… and not that fizzy lager concoction.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I enjoy cooking food for friends and weather permitting dining “al fesco” in the garden. I really love relaxing on the patio in the Summer with a good crime book and a glass of Rose wine. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Do your characters take over at all and if so how do you deal with it?</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My character Jack Slade in the crime novel “Death Rattle” has definitely grown larger than life and whilst he (rarely) breaks the law, he has no compunction about frequently bending it if the circumstances require him to. His sometimes unorthodox methods of policing have certainly found favour with my readers and he is a firm favourite amongst police officers who constantly email or message me to say how much they love him and ask when is the next Jack Slade book coming out. Maybe some of them are thinking “I wish I’d done that” whilst others muse “I know someone who got away with that.” Cops frequently say “I know who that character is!” The reality is that Jack and all the other characters he works with are fictitious with the exception of the barman in the Police club who shares his name with a real person…. along with that persons dry wit. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I did have one reviewer who said that they found one of the things Jack Slade did far-fetched and that any police officer who did that would end up in prison. I had to smile and was inwardly pleased that I hadn’t put any clues in to identify who had done that particular deed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Truth is very often more stranger than fiction.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Any pet hates about books.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I hate the inaccuracies in procedure in books marketed as “Crime Procedurals”. I know that it is easy to make mistakes and for typos not to be picked up by readers despite having been proof read several times, but there are basic procedural actions that keep repeating.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Very rarely is a warrant required to search a property and never if a person is arrested. Searches are almost always covered by The police and Criminal Evidence Act.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Almost never is a warrant of Arrest issued for anyone unless they have failed to turn up for a scheduled court appearance. Police have widespread powers of arrest set out in legislation. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My real pet hate is the frequently repeated portrayal of the cop who is sick at the sight of a crime scene or autopsy. A cop like that isn’t going to last long. It has become a cliché and in more than thirty years as a cop I have never witnessed it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The reality is you just get on and do your job despite the gore, death and destruction around you. It’s only when you finish work and go home that you might sit and reflect on what has happened. I think that is why cops have such a black sense of humour. It’s a coping strategy and I try to bring that out in my writing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sometimes especially in Television inaccuracies might not be the writer’s fault. Many years ago when I was working as a detective A great friend of mine Michael Wilcox was writing an episode of Inspector Morse and rang me to ask about the correct procedure for an identification parade. I told him but when it appeared on screen it was nothing like I’d explained. When I next spoke to him he said, “I know David but the Director said doing it the right way… just didn’t look as good on screen.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Where do you go to escape</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some years ago my brother and I invested in a renovation property in North Northumberland that is central to all the scenic places I love. Now restored it has become a holiday home which unfortunately due to Covid, is not getting visited at the moment. When I’m there I can curl up on a lounger overlooking the garden and disappear into the pages of a book. Sometimes I also use it to escape from distractions if I need to work on a novel or screenplay.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have always loved the Northumbrian countryside and following the success of the fantastic television series Vera with the lovely Brenda Blethyn and Kenny Doughty, the world is discovering Northumberland and it’s doing wonders for the local tourist industry. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Have you any WIP at the moment, or anything due to be published?</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As I mentioned I’m working on a spec script for comedy drama television series set on Tyneside so I’m hoping that will work out. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With regard to my Crime Novels, I’m rewriting and editing the second Jack Slade novel which will be released when Lockdown is over and we can have a traditional launch.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There’s a third novel in the pipeline which is an international thriller with strong psychological undertones. Concerning technical issues with the weapons aspects of the novel I have a good friend and former colleague with whom I’m in frequent contact. He keeps me up to date concerning firearms but he has just sent me a real writers’ joke.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A priest, a pastor and a Rabbit walk into a blood donation clinic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The nurse asks the rabbit “What is your blood type?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The rabbit replies “I think I’m probably a Type O”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 9pt;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; 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No don't bother telling me as I'm far to busy to listen today :) I've got so much to do. Over at the UKCBC we are now doing an Author Spotlight which will feature our less known authors. This week it's Pat Adams Wright and here is her story. See what I did there? Please yourself then.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j4sjwcEbPrc/YE9C14IoCNI/AAAAAAAABs0/lZv3qtlSwIogop7kZ7T4PzjIf9HygY2rwCNcBGAsYHQ/s305/PAT%2BADAMS%2BWRIGHT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="305" data-original-width="229" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j4sjwcEbPrc/YE9C14IoCNI/AAAAAAAABs0/lZv3qtlSwIogop7kZ7T4PzjIf9HygY2rwCNcBGAsYHQ/s0/PAT%2BADAMS%2BWRIGHT.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Hello Tee <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Wow, first on the list, and thank you so much for giving me this opportunity which I’m grabbing with both hands. Promotion is really hard as you know, so any help is most appreciated. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">So, a little bit about myself. I live in Halifax, West Yorkshire, UK with my wife Denise and sister Julie. We have two doggies, Willow who is a Jackaranian (Russel and Pom) and Teddy who is a Malchi (Maltese terrier and Chihuahua)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">How do you feel about writing a synopsis?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I</span> always find this bit really difficult and think basically I'm rubbish at it. How do you condense a book of around 100,000 words into just a few hundred? One publisher asked for one in just 100 words. I thought I'd misread it at first, but no, it was indeed 100.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">How many books have you written Pat?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I have seven books published and approaching half-way (I think) on my 8<sup>th</sup>.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Do you have a routine for writing?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I always write in the afternoon, about 5 hours, unless I really need to do something in a hurry, in which case I may start about 10am. The problem is, it takes my body so long to function, the earlier the start, the earlier I have to wake up. Given that I only average between two and three hours sleep a night, it’s not easy to arrange.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">What are your favourite foods, drinks, and also your hobbies?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">My favourite foods are seafood, vegetables, salad and fruit. My favourite drinks are tea (builders’ style!) champagne, mojitos and Chateauneuf du Pape (red wine) I never drink very much though… because I use morphine and other strong pain killers. My hobbies are ghost hunting (I had my own group for 8 years), road cycling, especially the classic events – Tour de France, La Vuelta, the Giro. However, it’s mainly just watching these days,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Have you any WIP at the moment Pat, or anything due to be published?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">My latest WIP is book 3 of the Kirsty Savidge series, a follow up to Best Served Cold and Calm Fury. The working title is, The Devil Within. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Have you any interviews coming up?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I have an interview with, Sam Brownley at UKCBC coming up on Wednesday, 17<sup>th</sup> Match from 7pm – 8pm <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #e4e6eb; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #050505; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Would you like to add any of the links to your books here Pat?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Thank you, Tee. The link at the bottom of the page shows all of my books. My first five were written with the LGBTQ market in mind, but apparently anyone can read them. The first of those - Run – has a strong police presence. The last two, Best Served Cold and Calm Fury are dedicated to crime.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Many thanks for talking to me Pat.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Link to books:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=pat+adams-wright&i=digital-text&ref=nb_sb_noss_2">https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=pat+adams-wright&i=digital-text&ref=nb_sb_noss_2</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=pat+adams-wright&i=digital-text&ref=nb_sb_noss_2 " target="_blank"> </a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Author T K Geeringhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811208566475939610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529803977753915593.post-16686806102919152342021-03-06T12:29:00.047+00:002021-03-06T15:21:56.272+00:00I'm Back with Criminal Shorts<p><span style="font-family: times;"> Hello my little chickadees how have you all been doing during this enforced lockdown? Just for a change I'm really interested, but mostly because I'm just bored. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">I've been shielding for 12 months in my virtual, author victim's cave. Remember that imaginary place many of you visited in the heady days of freedom, with all those lovely smells of blood and gore? I haven't had a decent victim in here for at least two years. The only company I've got, are the remains of </span><span style="font-family: times;">authors who are still hanging around in chains from the side of the cave. They only have themselves to blame. All I ask is for information on their latest books etc. If I have to do some harsh persuading to get it then so be it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">At the back of the cave where it was quieter, I found a few tasty morsels; mostly bits of limbs from previous occupants. They were going a bit rancid, but when you're hungry you can't be too fussy. </span><span style="font-family: times;">To fill my time, I started to reminisce about all the other author blogs I'd done over time. They seemed to be really popular and the stats were very pleasing. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Now that I've resurrected it again, I thought I'd have a slight change. I'm going to tell you about an anthology that the members of the UK Crime Book Club put together. Will Templeton and Kath Middleton did most of the leg work, while I sat and watched. </span><span style="font-family: times;">It was decided that all the proceeds would </span><span style="font-family: times;">go to the Red Kite Academy Corby Northants,</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: times;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: times;">a ‘richly diverse community in which children with many special needs, languages, cultures and religions learn together in harmony’.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span>All of t</span>he authors, have donated their work free of charge. You may find a favourite author here, or discover a new favourite. Their stories cover crime in all its aspects. You'll find stories to terrify you, mystify you, or maybe even raise a smile. </span></span><span style="font-family: times;">The anthology is called Criminal Shorts and well worth the </span><span style="font-family: times;">money, whether you buy paperback or kindle. I read it in one sitting, but then I love crime. I think we'll leave that hanging there! I'm just so giving all the time. </span><span style="font-family: times;">Here is the link (Click on the cover)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Criminal-Shorts-Crime-Book-Anthology-ebook/dp/B08LH879H4/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Criminal+Shorts+Anthology&qid=1614603297&s=books&sr=1-1" target="_blank"></a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Criminal-Shorts-Crime-Book-Anthology-ebook/dp/B08LH879H4/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Criminal+Shorts+Anthology&qid=1614603297&s=books&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="353" height="245" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xKfnL4_4g_Y/YED4_5eevXI/AAAAAAAABsM/84tu809hQJIZg8cbihWyKtn0jVr-N1MEgCNcBGAsYHQ/w173-h245/crimshortscover.jpg" width="173" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Criminal-Shorts-Crime-Book-Anthology-ebook/dp/B08LH879H4/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Criminal+Shorts+Anthology&qid=1614603297&s=books&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></a></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">I wanted to thank the authors that contributed, so I thought what could be better than invite them to my virtual cave. They have no idea what goes on here and most of them were eager to comply. I think word got out to some of the others though, as they are being backward in coming forward. Well they will miss out on all my virtual, adaptable, torturous implements I keep here. It's their loss - or gain depending on your point of view.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: times;">Having finished chewing on a few old bones that had a juicy bit of gristle left to suck (don't judge me, I'm not fussy about the smell) it occurred to me that you may like to meet the authors who contributed to the anthology so here is a selection of them ready to introduce themselves. In each case, they will tell you a little bit about themselves and add a synopsis of their work. They are even brave enough to add a photo. You have been warned!</span></div><p><span style="font-family: times;">WILL TEMPLETON</span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; font-family: times;">I’ve been a writer for as long as I can remember, focussing on playwriting for many years, with a number of successful productions under my belt. Despite my fondness for stagecraft, the lure of prose tempted me away from dialogue, eventually resulting in the release of my first crime novel, “Births, Marriages and Death”. The strong positive response has been overwhelming, ensuring I’ll be having to think of the stuff between the talkie-bits for the foreseeable future.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33);"><br /></span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hl4-3AQ1kkc/YDz5DZDfZlI/AAAAAAAABqo/K0Ew7LzH8BIGw514ex5JSRtVmfsHvELvgCNcBGAsYHQ/s261/WILL%2BTEMPLETON.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="204" data-original-width="261" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hl4-3AQ1kkc/YDz5DZDfZlI/AAAAAAAABqo/K0Ew7LzH8BIGw514ex5JSRtVmfsHvELvgCNcBGAsYHQ/s0/WILL%2BTEMPLETON.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;">Synopsis: When the proceeds of a robbery are “lost” in the forest, the police enlist the assistance of the Wild Man of the Woods, Jack Green, in finding the whereabouts of the loot. Mingling elements of fantasy and folklore with a strong crime theme, betrayal and deception follow as it becomes clear that someone is not who they appear to be. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: times;">Links:</span><a href=" https://my.bio/willtemp"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: times;"> </span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #0563c1; font-family: times; padding: 0cm;"><a href="https://my.bio/willtemp" target="_blank">Visit Will's Link</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: times;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33);">BEN BRUCE</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;">I’ve been writing all my life; telling stories is something I’ve always adored doing, but my first foray into novels came in 2018 with the release of The Regulators. I’m currently putting the finishing touches to the third part in the opening trilogy of that book series, which will be out this year. I’m really looking forward to working on some new standalone stories over the next couple of years, before I return to The Regulators.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CvNRnXX241I/YDz9PTpYaAI/AAAAAAAABqw/lpNNVjgafbwHWRvgaViCQJ91BG_kW_d-ACNcBGAsYHQ/s809/BEN%2BBRUCE.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="809" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CvNRnXX241I/YDz9PTpYaAI/AAAAAAAABqw/lpNNVjgafbwHWRvgaViCQJ91BG_kW_d-ACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/BEN%2BBRUCE.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></span></p><div><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: times;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33);"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: times;">Synopsis: In life we face moments where our fate is determined by a simple choice and that’s what Six Minutes is. It’s a tale about a boy, not yet a man, but trying to make a man’s choice. We follow him as he works his way through his options, trying to decide what’s right or wrong, but with time slipping away from him, propelling him towards making a decision one way or another.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>Links:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span><b><a href="http://www.benbruce.co.uk" target="_blank">Visit my page</a></b>, where you can sign up to my newsletter and stay abreast of all my forthcoming projects.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: times;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: times;">JAN EDWARDS</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: times; text-indent: 0cm;">I love writing short fiction and have had a great many published over the years. Most are in the folk horror and fantasy field. It was writing Sherlock Holmes stories, in various anthologies edited by people such as Maxim Jakubowski and David Marcum, which lured me into a life of crime. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KOfnjo7XGys/YD0DoQU-ZeI/AAAAAAAABq4/6ggL5CyK4z4P0yP-zE5lu3gNty_hT6hygCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_7562%2Bc002%255B1%255D.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1666" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KOfnjo7XGys/YD0DoQU-ZeI/AAAAAAAABq4/6ggL5CyK4z4P0yP-zE5lu3gNty_hT6hygCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_7562%2Bc002%255B1%255D.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><span style="color: #050505;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span>Synopsis: </span></span><span style="color: #050505; text-indent: 0cm;">It’s always hard to give a synopsis for any short story because they are – well – short, but I shall give it a go. ‘Down to the Sea’ came about as a side shoot from one of me WW2 crime series</span><span style="color: #050505; text-indent: 0cm;"> </span><i style="color: #050505; text-indent: 0cm;">In Her Defence : Bunch Courtney Investigation #3</i><span style="color: #050505; text-indent: 0cm;">.</span><span style="color: #050505; text-indent: 0cm;"> </span><span style="color: #050505; text-indent: 0cm;"> </span><span style="color: #050505; text-indent: 0cm;">This short story began as one of those blind alleys that a plot occasionally rushes into. I could never</span><span style="color: #050505; text-indent: 0cm;"> </span><span style="color: #050505; text-indent: 0cm;">get it to</span><span style="color: #050505; text-indent: 0cm;"> </span><span style="color: #050505; text-indent: 0cm;">fit in, no</span><span style="color: #050505; text-indent: 0cm;"> </span><span style="color: #050505; text-indent: 0cm;">matter how hard I tried.</span><span style="color: #050505; text-indent: 0cm;"> </span><span style="color: #050505; text-indent: 0cm;"> </span><span style="color: #050505; text-indent: 0cm;">It does have a fleeting mention – by which I mean half a sentence</span><span style="color: #050505; text-indent: 0cm;"> </span><span style="color: #050505; text-indent: 0cm;">that is probably never to be identified as the link by anybody but me.</span><span style="color: #050505; text-indent: 0cm;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;">What is it about? Its 1940 in England and DCI William Wright finds himself on the blitz-torn London docks in search of a missing witness. What he finds in the process is <i>trouble</i> in the guise of an old adversary and showdown shenanigans ensue!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #050505;">Links: </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #050505;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><b><a href="https://janedwardsblog.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Visit my Blog</a></b> which includes<span style="color: #050505; font-family: times; text-indent: 0cm;"> my work as an editor of fantasy and horror anthologies for The Alchemy Press.</span></p><div><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: times;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5);">BARBARA NORREY</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;">My literary background is that I’m simply a scribbler, have always been one, and have been blessed (or cursed) with an overactive imagination. I enjoy writing, and I was the ghastly geek who had her essays read out in English class most weeks. I desperately wanted to be a journalist when I was younger, but that was a tough road, a different time and I lacked confidence. Mind you, I wanted to be a missionary at one point because I had a </span><span style="font-family: times; text-indent: 0cm;">crush on the vicar – I’m not sure what that says about me!</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>For the anthology, the wonderfully supportive virtual atmosphere of the UKCBC Facebook group, and the good cause they were supporting, gave me the courage to try my hand at submitting my story. I was blown away to be included in this wonderful book filled by talented writers.</span><br /></span></p><div><span><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M-B0jC7JEFc/YD0OH-k_CVI/AAAAAAAABrA/F-F9mIdCe50oNfJv3kYBTCNnimD9aRmJgCNcBGAsYHQ/s1110/Bury%255B1%255D.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1110" data-original-width="664" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M-B0jC7JEFc/YD0OH-k_CVI/AAAAAAAABrA/F-F9mIdCe50oNfJv3kYBTCNnimD9aRmJgCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/Bury%255B1%255D.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Synopsis: </span><span style="font-family: times;">I set off to write about the invidious effect of emotional and verbal bullying, and the idea of the victim fighting back, instead of turning the other cheek. But the story took on a life of its own and flip flopped into the latter being the thing that brought results, with no ‘fight’ as such being necessary! But can a lack of action truly be labelled as murderous, however cold blooded it may seem? That is for the reader to discover.</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Links: None to show at the moment.</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">KATH MIDDLETON</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">I’ve been writing all my life but only began publishing in 2013. I began with a collaboration of drabbles – 100 word stories, but since my first solo book saw the light in 2014 I’ve been constantly scribbling. The pandemic has caused a bit of a glitch but I’m hoping to get back in the saddle before long.</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WKeOc7z68t4/YD0QyaE-RTI/AAAAAAAABrI/57NOwi06olQnenk2XhhpP-sOxjq4Fc6tACNcBGAsYHQ/s384/KATH%2BMIDDLETON.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="384" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WKeOc7z68t4/YD0QyaE-RTI/AAAAAAAABrI/57NOwi06olQnenk2XhhpP-sOxjq4Fc6tACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/KATH%2BMIDDLETON.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Synopsis: Dark Fires</span></p><div class="gmail_default"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">I began my story with a young woman in a police cell, having spent the night there, accused of starting fires. Only at that point did I wonder whether or not she had. As I continued to write I found the focus of the story changed for me. I love it when the story tells you where it wants to go!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></span></p></div><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Links: </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kath-Middleton/e/B00H1WWW2E?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1612437230&sr=8-1 www.kathmiddletonbooks.com ">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kath-Middleton/e/B00H1WWW2E?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1612437230&sr=8-1</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kath-Middleton/e/B00H1WWW2E?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1612437230&sr=8-1 www.kathmiddletonbooks.com "><br /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.kathmiddletonbooks.com">https://www.kathmiddletonbooks.com</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kath-Middleton/e/B00H1WWW2E?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1612437230&sr=8-1 www.kathmiddletonbooks.com "><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;"></span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17); color: #0f1111;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17); color: #0f1111;">BILL TODD</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">I've worked as a journalist on local and national newspapers and as a travel writer, visiting more than 40 countries. After many years of 'Who? What? When? Where? Why?' it was wonderful to put down the reporter's notebook and set my imagination free. Now I have written seven Danny Lancaster crime thrillers. The first ebook is free on Amazon Kindle, the rest are 99p each. All can be read as standalones. In addition, I've authored three military histories based on family diaries. I have a number of writing projects on the go but newborn grandson Jack and his two-year-old brother Theo are proving to be a distraction.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2QnqyH7QRrA/YD4zx9fRa4I/AAAAAAAABrQ/QvMoBR8QC1g0lKp7jrsF7ZrDucJZjZCewCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20190622_142358%255B1%255D.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2QnqyH7QRrA/YD4zx9fRa4I/AAAAAAAABrQ/QvMoBR8QC1g0lKp7jrsF7ZrDucJZjZCewCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/20190622_142358%255B1%255D.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17); color: #0f1111;"><br /></span></span></div><div><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: times;">Synopsis: Writing a novel is big fun but it's also a marathon. I thought I would take my main character, wounded soldier turned investigator Danny Lancaster, for a short sprint. So he finds himself in a small corner store. All he wants is a bit of shopping but Danny gets more than he bargained for. </span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: times;">Links: </span></p><p dir="ltr"><a href="goog_1683205448" style="font-family: times;">http://</a><a href="http://www.billtodd.co.uk" style="font-family: times;">www.billtodd.co.uk</a></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: times;">Goodreads: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5804102.Bill_Todd">http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5804102.Bill_Todd</a></span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: times;">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/williamjtodd ">https://twitter.com/williamjtodd </a>- @williamjtodd<br />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/@DannyLancaster3 ">https://twitter.com/@DannyLancaster3 </a>- @DannyLancaster3<br />Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/DannyLancasterInvestigates/">www.facebook.com/DannyLancasterInvestigates/</a><br />Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/billtodd_writer/">https://www.instagram.com/billtodd_writer/</a> - @billtodd_writer</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://mybook.to/WreckOfTheMargherita">http://mybook.to/WreckOfTheMargherita</a><br /><a href="http://mybook.to/DeathSquad ">http://mybook.to/DeathSquad </a><br /><a href="http://mybook.to/roughdiamond ">http://mybook.to/roughdiamond </a><br /><a href="http://mybook.to/rockhard ">http://mybook.to/rockhard </a><br /><a href="http://mybook.to/GargoylePixieDog ">http://mybook.to/GargoylePixieDog </a><br /><a href="http://mybook.to/GodlefesCuckoo ">http://mybook.to/GodlefesCuckoo </a><br /><a href="http://mybook.to/LastOrders">http://mybook.to/LastOrders</a><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: times;">JACK PROBYN</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: times;">Like many authors, I started writing when I was young. As a child I grew up with the Harry Potter series, which was my first proper venture into reading that I remember, followed by the Alex Rider spy series. Since then, I've enjoyed both the pleasures of reading and writing. It wasn't until I went to university and studied English Literature with Creative Writing that I realised I wanted to develop it further. The first novel I wrote was spawned from a writing assessment. It was terrible and is currently sitting on my hard drive somewhere. Perhaps one day I'll dust it off the virtual shelves and turn it into something cohesive. For now, I'll continue the Jake Tanner crime series - with a few more series planned. After entering into the world of work at a toy and games company, I've since decided to take the independent route, sustain a living with my books and work for myself for the rest of my life. One day soon it'll happen. Thanks to all the wonderful people at the UKCBC Facebook Group, I'm getting closer! </span></p><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nGCIZKiRcvU/YD43Apb-R-I/AAAAAAAABrY/6Eqg98QURAMrZG6p9Yu1Te1AT4VdNTKTACNcBGAsYHQ/s556/JACK%2BPROBYN.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="556" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nGCIZKiRcvU/YD43Apb-R-I/AAAAAAAABrY/6Eqg98QURAMrZG6p9Yu1Te1AT4VdNTKTACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/JACK%2BPROBYN.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">Synopsis: Death's Embrace: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">The body of a successful club and casino owner is found face-down in the farmlands of Croydon. His </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">head crushed, split in two. Jake Tanner, Temporary Detective Constable with Croydon Police, soon learns that, in this town, a lot of people hold their cards close to their chest.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">Links: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">Website<b>:</b> <a href="http://www.jackprobynbooks.com/" target="_blank">www.jackprobynbooks.com</a></span></div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family: times;">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/jackprobynbooks" target="_blank">@jackprobynbooks</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/jackprobynbooks" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/jackprobynbooks</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">Instagram: <a href="http://instagram.com/jackprobynauthor" target="_blank">instagram.com/jackprobynauthor</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">SUE McGONIGAL</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">For years I squeezed my writing time in wherever possible, fitting it in around long days working in the public sector. After having penned a number of short stories and two novels (A Confusion of Crows and Feather and Claw) I jumped at the chance to leave the corporate world and spend more time of the things I love: writing, overseeing a house renovation project and creating a self-sufficient garden for myself and my husband. In the intervening years, I have since published the third in the DC Cat McKenzie series, The Body Politic and have written a further two novels, due to be published in 2021, including the first in a new series, Paid for in Blood, featuring blind detective, DI Matt Fisher. </span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qx7Tw95eWRk/YD5AiX9OrCI/AAAAAAAABrg/uSOzUAv8l4YckPtKh0f3V-EbHS6fUvB-wCNcBGAsYHQ/s337/SUE%2BMcGONIGAL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="337" data-original-width="303" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qx7Tw95eWRk/YD5AiX9OrCI/AAAAAAAABrg/uSOzUAv8l4YckPtKh0f3V-EbHS6fUvB-wCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/SUE%2BMcGONIGAL.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span>Synopsis: (written under my pen name, Susan Handley) </span>Robbed: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">Robbie Gilham is back on the street after serving eight long years for armed robbery. Now it’s time to collect his dues and win back his family. Unfortunate for Robbie, he’s not the only one who’s been waiting. In the race to </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">get to the spot where he left the spoils of his crime, Robbie soon learns that, whilst in prison so little changes, the same can’t be said for the world outside and time stands still for no man. <o:p> </o:p></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>Links<b>:</b></span><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://susanhandley.co.uk ">https://susanhandley.co.uk<o:p> </o:p></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Facebook:<o:p> <a href="@SusanHandleyAuthor">@SusanHandleyAuthor</a></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Twitter: <o:p> <a href="@shandleyauthor">@shandleyauthor</a></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">ANDY BARRETT</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Andrew Barrett has enjoyed variety in his professional life, from engine-builder to farmer, from Oilfield Service Technician in Kuwait, to his current role of Senior CSI in Yorkshire. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.333332061767578px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px;"><span style="font-family: times;">He’s been a CSI since 1996, and has worked on all scene types from terrorism to murder, suicide to rape, drugs manufacture to bomb scenes. One way or another, Andrew’s life revolves around crime.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.333332061767578px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px;"><span style="font-family: times;">In 1997 he finished his first crime thriller, <i>A Long Time Dead</i>, and it’s still a readers’ favourite today, some 150,000 copies later, topping the Amazon charts several times. Two more books featuring SOCO Roger Conniston completed the trilogy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.333332061767578px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Today, Andrew is still producing high-quality, authentic crime thrillers with a forensic flavour that attract attention from readers worldwide. He’s also attracted attention from the Yorkshire media, having been featured in the <i>Yorkshire Post</i>, and twice interviewed on BBC Radio Leeds.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.333332061767578px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px;"><span style="font-family: times;">He’s best known for his lead character, CSI Eddie Collins, and the acerbic way in which he roots out criminals and administers justice. Eddie’s series is six books and four novellas in length, and there’s still more to come.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.333332061767578px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 16.866666793823242px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Andrew is a proud Yorkshireman and sets all of his novels there, using his home city of Leeds as another major, and complementary, character in each of the stories.</span></span></p><p></p><span style="font-family: times;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NEUszz6r4T0/YD5ChVQFDDI/AAAAAAAABro/K43mpl8gGPAQkDgw2C5LJkg7hIpWBiWxwCNcBGAsYHQ/s1067/ANDY%2BBARRETT.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1043" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NEUszz6r4T0/YD5ChVQFDDI/AAAAAAAABro/K43mpl8gGPAQkDgw2C5LJkg7hIpWBiWxwCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/ANDY%2BBARRETT.png" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><u><br /></u></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><span style="font-family: times;"><u><br /></u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><u><br /></u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><u><br /></u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><u><br /></u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><u><br /></u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><u><br /></u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><u><br /></u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><u><br /></u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><u>Synopsis Eye Contact:</u></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; text-align: justify;">Eddie Collins is a Crime Scene Investigator who is exceptionally good at collecting the evidence that helps solve the crimes. He’s also a grumpy bastard. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Ask him who he’d love to spend an evening with, and he’d say he was busy grinding his toenails.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">He doesn’t get along with people very well, so you have to feel sorry then for his father, Charles, who lives with him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Determined to make an effort for Charles’s 70<sup>th</sup> birthday, Eddie leaves work early and promises his father a day to remember – shopping at Eric’s Bargain Basement, where there was a special on athlete’s foot powder. Not once were the words ‘jewellery shop heist’ mentioned in the afternoon’s itinerary, but that’s precisely where Eddie ends up, his head against the barrel of a nervous man’s gun, a man who said, “Go ahead, punk, make my day.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Will Eddie get out alive? Will he make it to Eric’s Bargain Basement before they close? Most importantly, will Eddie ever make his father proud?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><o:p>Links: </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Andrew-Barrett/e/B0055888Q0?" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Andrew-Barrett/e/B0055888Q0?</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.andrewbarrett.co.uk "><span style="font-family: times;">https://www.andrewbarrett.co.uk</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.andrewbarrett.co.uk "><o:p></o:p></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">T G CAMPBELL</span></p><div><span style="font-family: times;">T.G. Campbell writes the Bow Street Society Mystery series of books and the Bow Street Society Casebook series of short story collections. She has previously worked for a non-profit organisation assisting witnesses and victims through the process of giving evidence at court. Unsurprisingly, then, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">she’s fascinated by the formative years of the Metropolitan Police and the history of the famous Bow Street Law Court and Police Station. With a love of all things Victorian she throws herself into in-depth research of the era to inform her writing. Therefore, she has a large collection of original books from the nineteenth century, a plethora of maps, and innumerable photographs and notes from various museums and exhibits she’s visited.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S5MUld58XAA/YD5Fhole61I/AAAAAAAABrw/ItnS7s_dKb4_q1FA5_RB3YMUlrAEeyJLwCNcBGAsYHQ/s900/TG%2BCAMPBELL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S5MUld58XAA/YD5Fhole61I/AAAAAAAABrw/ItnS7s_dKb4_q1FA5_RB3YMUlrAEeyJLwCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/TG%2BCAMPBELL.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><div><span style="font-family: times;">Synopsis Devils Dare:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span>London, 1896 and Dr Charles McWilliams is distraught as he relates the details of his bizarre case to Miss Rebecca Trent, the clerk of the Bow Street Society. He alleges his friend Dr Westley Devereux vanished before his eyes after challenging Satan to steal him away from the infamous Devil’s Arch. Accepting Dr McWilliams’s commission, Miss Trent assigns illusionist Mr Percy Locke and Spiritualist Mr Virgil Verity to investigate. Drawing upon the knowledge and expertise of their respective occupations, the two Bow Streeters soon uncover the surprising truth behind Dr Devereux’s disappearance in this cautionary tale of what happens when science and the paranormal collide.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span>About the Bow Street Society/website:</span><span> </span></span><div><span><span style="font-family: times;">The Case of the Devil’s Dare is the first time the Bow Street Society has appeared in an anthology outside the Bow Street Society Casebook series. The Bow Street Society is a fictional group of amateur detectives. Each of its civilian members has been enlisted for their unique skill or exceptional knowledge in a particular field derived from their usual occupation. Members are assigned to cases, by the Society's clerk, Miss Trent, based upon these skills and fields of knowledge.</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">Links:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B01HV5P1XM?_encoding=UTF8&node=266239&offset=0&pageSize=12&searchAlias=stripbooks&sort=author-sidecar-rank&page=1&langFilter=default#formatSelectorHeader">https://www.amazon.co.uk/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B01HV5P1XM?_encoding=UTF8&node=266239&offset=0&pageSize=12&searchAlias=stripbooks&sort=author-sidecar-rank&page=1&langFilter=default#formatSelectorHeader</a></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="mailto:info@bowstreetsociety.com">i</a><a href="mailto:nfo@bowstreetsociety.com">nfo@bowstreetsociety.com</a></span></div><div><div id="Signature"><div dir="ltr" id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="background-color: white;"><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="http://www.bowstreetsociety.com">www.bowstreetsociety.com</a></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">LEXIE CONYNGHAM</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Lexie Conyngham is a historian living in the shadow of the Highlands. Her historical crime novels are born of a life amidst Scotland’s old cities, ancient universities and hidden-away aristocratic estates, but she has written since the day she found out that people were allowed to do such a thing. Beyond teaching and research, her days are spent with wool, wild allotments and a wee bit of whisky.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a6Z2ZE5IrKw/YD5KDvxdPyI/AAAAAAAABr4/ckmW71I6JWA6W7uVL-KOqySKeE9ADpodwCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Nick%2BMills.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a6Z2ZE5IrKw/YD5KDvxdPyI/AAAAAAAABr4/ckmW71I6JWA6W7uVL-KOqySKeE9ADpodwCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/Nick%2BMills.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></span></p><p></p></div></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></span></div><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Synopsis: Special Delivery. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">About a courier who arrives with a parcel only to find that the man it's intended for is dead, and he's quickly helping the police with their enquiries. I was intrigued by the idea of starting a book with someone walking into a busy situation he didn't understand, and that seemed a good place to start for a short story, too. Apart from that the story was one of those ones that just seems to happen - though I can say that the room in the story that contains only a cistern handle and nothing else was something we found when viewing a house, once!</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17); color: #0f1111; font-family: times;">Links: </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lexie-Conyngham/e/B008XH0YQ2" title="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lexie-Conyngham/e/B008XH0YQ2">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lexie-Conyngham/e/B008XH0YQ2</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">TONY FORDER</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;">I achieved some success many years ago with short stories, but since being made redundant in 2016 I’ve had the pleasure of publishing or having had published 11 novels and 1 novella, many in my DI Bliss crime series.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IsdbGAyjZzA/YD5MYjfU8NI/AAAAAAAABsA/3SOFOupwm-wAQv9WdpB_BSiS6ExuqT7TgCNcBGAsYHQ/s329/TONY%2BFORDER.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="329" data-original-width="319" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IsdbGAyjZzA/YD5MYjfU8NI/AAAAAAAABsA/3SOFOupwm-wAQv9WdpB_BSiS6ExuqT7TgCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/TONY%2BFORDER.png" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;">Synopsis: Mission Accomplished<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;">Taking time out from major crimes back in England, DI Jimmy Bliss and his partner, DS Penny Chandler travel to Ireland to visit Jimmy’s mother. During the drive from the airport they almost collide with a speeding vehicle, and shortly afterwards encounter the owner of a petrol station who has just been the victim of an assault. Unsatisfied with the man’s explanation, Bliss and Chandler do some unauthorised digging, and in the process tread on the toes of some influential people.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;">Links:<a href=" https://www.tonyjforder.com/"> <span style="color: #954f72;">https://www.tonyjforder.com/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;">Fantastic Fiction: <a href="https://www.fantasticfiction.com/f/tony-j-forder/" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.fantasticfiction.com/f/tony-j-forder/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;">Amazon Author: <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tony-J-Forder/e/B01N4BPT65" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tony-J-Forder/e/B01N4BPT65</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;">SAMANTHA BROWNLEY</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;">At the end of 2019, I took a year off work to write a book. That didn't happen, thanks to a pesky pandemic, but something else that's rather wonderful did. I got to spend a lot of time at home with my husband and children and I offered to become an admin in a book club. Since then, I have gained a partner in crime, made some fantastic friends and further cemented my addiction to crime fiction with some amazing books and authors. 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(writing as Sam Thomas)</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Josie is trying to balance work and her relationship, not easy when you test the up and comers in a criminal gang for a living. The story details a day in her life with some violence that was really fun to write! The story didn't turn out anything like I had originally planned, all that remained was Josie. I like her a lot!</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;">Links:</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/SamThomasAuthor/" target="">https://www.facebook.com/SamThomasAuthor/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.instagram.comsamthomasauthor/">https://www.instagram.comsamthomasauthor/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://twitter.comSamBrownley">https://twitter.comSamBrownley</a></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;">A selection of the Authors favourite Reviews:</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times;">**It’s great to see the motivations behind our readers and to know that the UKCBC Group has impacted people to where they’re motivated to buy books, and to help good causes, speaks volumes to the work that has been put in by so many people to make it such a great community.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times;">**</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #050505; font-family: Times;">Of the many reviews on Amazon for Criminal Shorts the comment that recurs in one form or another in so many is that the readers loved it even though they don’t usually read short fiction, and how it has introduced them to so many writers they had never come across before. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Times;">Anthologies have sadly been missing from main stream publishing over the past few decades and yet there was a time when short crime fiction was favoured by the greats. Most of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes </span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Times;">oeuvre</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Times;">, for example, as well as a vast amount of Agatha Christie’s back catalogue. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Times;">**</span><span style="font-family: Times;">This was the perfect book for when I was suffering from Covid. I'd lost interest in reading novels, so dipping into these short stories was just the cure.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times;">This was certainly a diverse selection of stories, even though the theme was crime. We met up with a few </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times;">familiar faces and for me some new ones that I will start investigating more of.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times;">A cracking read, scored 5 stars because there was not a bad story in this bunch.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times;">**</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0f1111; font-family: Times;">This anthology of short stories by some of the very best UK crime writers was really very good. When authors can make you attached to characters in a short story, what is there not to like.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0f1111; font-family: Times;">There is a very good mixture of stories and it is a lot of quick journeys for the mind to in switching of characters and settings.</span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Times;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">That does not make any of the stories any less 'wholesome' in any way. If anything it makes you want the characters that could be expanded on made into novels and most definitely another collection of stories.</span></span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0f1111; font-family: Times;">**</span><span style="font-family: Times;">Brian Caves's review really sums up the spirit and content of the anthology: '22 superb crime stories, all different and appealing to all tastes. Dark, light, funny, bloody. Cracking crime reads.'</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times;">**Great little book for dipping into for a short read. Very diverse range of stories, but all enjoyable. I discovered this book via an author I love - Jon Mayhew, but it's also a great way to find a new author. I found myself searching for more books by some of the authors. This book is sold to raise money for an amazing school called Red Kite Special Academy. The forward written by the Headteacher and a letter from a parent touched my heart and soul. Thank you to all who contributed to this book, for giving us a great collection of short stories but also for helping such a worthy school and making us aware of Red Kite Special Academy.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Author Note: I like this review for several reasons. It highlights the reason behind the anthology more than any other review - supporting the Red Kite Special Academy and raising awareness about what they do there. It also shines some lovely light on the short stories included. </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times;">**I'm not normally a fan of short stories, but this collection might have just converted me. One of the reasons for me buying this collection was because it was put together by one of my favourite Facebook book groups, the other was because it was created to raise funds for a very special school. Each of the stories showcases the talents of the authors involved, who are exceptional in their own right but together they've managed to create something so much more than the sum of the parts.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times;">**An excellent collection of short crime stories with everything from a Victorian investigators group, ghosts, blackmail and an elephant's backside. The reader also commits a murder! Really good reading, serious, funny, gory and disturbing.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times;">**</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0f1111; font-family: Times;">The Criminal Shorts Anthology is a perfect way of discovering new authors. Because the stories are short, it gives the reader the perfect opportunity to dip in randomly when you take a break from life chores. There are many diverse plot lines covered by each of the authors and I highly recommend it.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times;">So there you have it folks. There are some really amazing authors here and I advise you to check them all out and see if their work is to your taste. I've read most of them and gone on to read the complete collections. Remember that all the author's have contributed their work free, yes FREE! </span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0f1111; font-family: Times;">Pop in to see me when I post my next blog. They are going to be random and diverse.</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0f1111; font-family: Times;">Laters Potaters</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Author T K Geeringhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811208566475939610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529803977753915593.post-53027877863113883392020-06-01T10:26:00.000+01:002020-06-01T10:26:08.019+01:00It's day 73,892,000,000 in the pokey<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How was the Bank Holiday for you? All tickety boo I hope. Fabulous weather. So what did I get up to? Naff all is the short answer. Just another couple of days in lockdown as far as I was concerned. However, Monday turned out to be a bonus. My neighbour cheered me up with talk of a bbq he was doing for us and a dear friend of the famalam popped over to pick up some bits and raid my garden. I gained tomato plants while she gained wild garlic and lemon balm cuttings. So all good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I woke up at 5.45. Don’t ask! It could be the birds, I’d had enough sleep, or someone poked me in the back, who knows. I tuned into Webbo while I made a cuppa and sat outside with it in the garden. I could feel the heat at that time of the morning. Brekkie was chocolate chip Weetabix again. I made another list which I was determined to stick to. It had two items. Transplant those long suffering veggie seedlings this time – DO IT! And finish the plot your digging. Well one out of two isn’t bad, and like I said my famalam friend turned up and stayed for a while. We ended up more or less talking very loudly because of the distance between us. She is also a friend of my neighbour so we ended up with a three way conversation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lunch turned out to be a hit and miss affair around two o’clock because yes, I had been transplanting some of the seedlings. It got so hot though so I took to the swing seat with iced pink lemonade and my trusty kindle. I really need to get around to some writing which is next on the agenda.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Then I awoke to the lovely smell of the bbq being cooked. When I checked the time, it turned out that I’d only been asleep for a couple of minutes. Obviously just enough for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I washed it down with some merlot and spent the evening in the garden watching nature at it’s best, as the birds were feeding. I was also mentally planning to give my shed a good kicking as I want a new one. This time I think it will be a summer house, which will mean a new concrete base and that can’t happen until the appropriate people can go back to working again. Which means no replacement for me because there are no deliveries. Very frustrating is the best I can come up with, without sounding off. It was a beautiful evening though and I stayed out there until quite late. So it was a quick shower and then beddy byes. Nighty night and see you on the morrow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I woke at 8.45. Don’t ask. No really, don’t ask! I have no idea what happened there but I’ll take it. Perhaps I needed the sleep. Anyway, I got up straight away instead of laying there. Today began a new regime for me. Before I even put the kettle on I started power walking (my version) up and down my back path so that I could get some form of exercise. I plan to do this a couple of times a day as I can feel the shorts getting a bit tight around the middle and that’s not good for me as it puts a strain on my back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So what am I up to today? Well in between transplanting the seedlings I have got to record several chapters of my books which takes up a lot of time. Also the UK Crime Book Club have asked me to sit on a panel for a ‘Spookfest’ that they are holding around Halloween. Also it looks like I’ll be doing a live video of me reading from my book which is set around Halloween. It’s quite time consuming but it’s fun and will probably take me the rest of the week. Ho hum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Brekkie was scrambled eggs bacon and tinned tomatoes and then it was shower hair wash and check the roots. It’s quite interesting as they seem to be coming through as a dirty dark blonde and grey. I’m going to be wearing a beanie hat before long I reckon. Want to see a picture of my moustache? Nah! that’s not happening and as for my hairy unwaxed legs, well that’s a laugh in itself. Face bothered? No! It proves that I’ve isolated myself. I can’t believe I’ve been stuck here since 4<sup>th</sup> March. I’ve got enough health issues to think about without adding Corona lager to the list thank you. (I love a lager and lime on a hot summers day)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway I got bored watching him doing his, “If I waffle enough and mumble, they’ll be so busy trying to make out what I’m saying that they’ll forget what the question was.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I woke up at 3.45 to sounds of the dawn chorus. Lovely as it was I decided to go for a wee. Then got back into bed. I went back to sleep until 7.20 according to my phone. So I got up and following what now seems to be my routine I sat outside with my cuppa and planned my day. Not that it’s likely to happen as I planned. My life isn’t like that. I just go with the flow and the weather temperature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lunch was a quick chicken salad and I treated myself to a French Biere which was really refreshing. Then it was back to the seedlings. There are hundreds of carrots still to do. Just as well I like them and this is a harlequin variety. I also did the peppers. I’m running out of containers to put them in so they now reside in a ‘goes under’ which I bought a few years back in a garden centre. For those <i>under </i>a certain age, a goes under is what was known as a jerry. Back in the day if you only had an outside toilet, you used a jerry pot (kept under the bed) during the night so save going out in the cold. It was then emptied in the morning. This originated during medieval times actually. Oh, there is education in reading my blogs as well. Anyway, I digress. Around 3pm I’d had enough so I sat in my favourite swing and had a bit of a doze. It turned out to be a cat nap. It’s amazing how that few minutes can completely revitalise one. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyhows, I sat there just enjoying my garden for a couple of hours and popped in to see our parliamentary clown still trying to dig himself out of the hole caused by DC. I felt like hurling darts at the TV but it would make no difference to him and would ruin the TV. I got quite excited at being able to get out and join in with the latest freedom but no! I still have to shelter due to health mostly. Damnation! I reckon he brought it forward so we would forget about DC in our euphoria of freedom. At least ITV local news seems to be impartial. Time to cook dinner me thinks which didn’t take long as it was a jacket potato filled with a tuna, sweet corn and light mayo mix. Oh, and I tossed a bit of a salad to go with it. 8pm I was outside with my neighbours’ hand clapping and it seems this might be the last one. Oh well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well that’s what it feels like today. I woke up at 4.10am with the birds singing their hearts out. I desperately tried to go back to sleep but gave up at 5am and got up. Mind you it is lovely out there to be honest. I took my cuppa outside and watched the early morning pigeons getting in first with the food. Is it too early to have brekkie at 7.14am? Oh go on then. I could always have elevenses I suppose if I get hungry. So then I think I’ll have bacon, egg, tinned tomatoes, and baked beans. I’ve run out of bread until Tesco’s deliver later, otherwise I would have toast as well. AND this is all Slimming World friendly. Yep. Lovely jubbly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ve checked all my veggie seeds and they seem to be doing remarkably well. Time for a sit in my swing chair and survey all my good work. I do wish the wind wasn’t so chilling though.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lunch was salad as it was quite hot. The afternoon I did a bit more digging but my back didn’t like it. I can’t wait for my gardeners to come back and do all that back aching digging. After 10 minutes my back sez “Are you kidding me or what?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well I forgot to put the bin out yesterday ho hum. As I was awake at 6am I said good morning to Webbo and then padded outside in my dressing gown and slippers to put it out. It was lovely listening to the birds so I took a cuppa outside and joined them. I also had a brain storm and cleaned my downstairs windows at the back. They were disgusting and I can’t wait for my window cleaners to come back to work and help me out. I know, okay? I want a cleaner environment which has been wonderful for the last few weeks. Clear skies and so silent on the roads. I also (like everyone) want things back to normal whatever that might be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The afternoon I spent lazing in my swing seat reading. I’ve finished the psychological thriller and I’m now reading Alice Teal is Missing. I’ll give you an update when I’ve read a few more chapters. It’s very ‘unputdownable’ That’s a new word for the Oxford and English dictionary but I’ll let you use it if you want no charge. Just give me credit Okay?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well I was up most of the night because of all the water I drank yesterday because it was so hot. At 5.30 I was wide awake listening to the birds and watching the wonderful sunrise. I tuned into Webbo on Radio Ashford and he agreed with me about the sunrise. I walked downstairs in the nuddy as it was so early and put the kettle on. Probably not a pretty sight when my skin isn’t ironed but who cares? I don’t and the birds are only interested in the food I put down for them. The don’t usually feed until about 8am anyway so I had the garden to myself if I wanted it. It was beautifully warm and lovely to feel the sun on my skin. I can fully understand why people go to nudist camps in the summer, although I’m not an exhibitionist though to save you asking any more questions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I had a late brekkie of bacon, tomatoes, scrambled eggs and baked beans if you’re interested and yes the beans do make you become unsociable in polite company. I know how to talk proper like when I have to. Then it was shower and make a list for the day. I don’t know why I bother to be honest as I never look at them and just follow my instinct. As it happened I did practically faff all because it was too hot. However, I digress and I’m jumping ahead of myself. I sat in the shade under the parasol in between bouts of digging. It’s the only exercise I can do at the moment. I refuse to go for a walk outside where I am as there are too many dickheads out there. How do I know this? I’ve watched them from my back gate when it’s been open. Neighbours have come up to the front garden trying to socialise with me when I’ve been in the front garden, One of them actually was coming in the gate to show me her new granddaughter. She was quite offended when I stopped her by shouting “NO stay there!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After dinner of fish (haddock fillets) with poached egg and asparagus tips I settled down in the swing seat with a cold beer (yep) it’s good to have a refreshing cold beer and watched the birds feed. They’re used to me now if I don’t make any sudden moves. I do wish the pigeons on the fence would get a room. They’re flipping noisy. Which reminds me I haven’t seen Cyril of late. I hope he’s alright. I even bought him a squirrel hotel to feed at but it sits untouched.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well it was another early wake up again. Just after 4am. What’s this malarkey all about? Anyway, I dozed and woke up just after 6am. Another beautiful day in Christendom as they used to say, so I took my cuppa outside. So peaceful because of the quiet and just the birds for company. A quick shower. Check out the hair roots and moustache (Or not!) and strawberries for brekkie. The 8pm doorstop clap is on today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I totally lost track of what day it was when I woke up. The night was hot and sticky and I was awake several times. I didn’t even need a wee! I was just hot. It was 6.20 and after wishing Webbo good morning I needed to get up for a wee so I stayed up and made a cuppa. It’s very overcast and humid this morning so probably a good day to carry on with the gardening. I caught up on face book and then had brekki. Do yer wanna know what I had? Oh go on then, it was baked beans on brown seeded bread (Tesco substitute for my brown wholemeal 800gm instead of 400gm) and scrambled egg. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How are we all? Still being a lert? Come on now it’s the latest government by word and for goodness sake take some notice of it. We may not all agree with it but it’s there for a reason. So get over it. I can’t wait to go out in the garden and sit in my new oak swing seat. It’s a doozie and I love it. I can’t wait to sit in it with a glass of vino watching the sun go down. At the moment the winds are north easterly and far to cruel to sit out in, but we’ve been promised warmer weather next week. Whoop whoop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Any idea what real day were on I haven’t a clue? I’ve put Monday up here but that’s because it feels like a Friday. No I know it doesn’t make sense but I’m losing the plot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Woke at 6.25am stayed in my pit until just after 8am but I needed a cuppa. So down I went in my jim jams this time. I thought about a cuppa Earl Grey but that didn’t last too long. However for a change I did have chocolate chip Weetabix for brekkie. I like to surprise my stomach in the morning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This afternoon I decided to carry on with my psychological thriller that I’m reading called The Reckoning Squad by Suzanne Burke. It’s very chilling and I’ve already got two in the frame but knowing our Soooz I’ll be wrong. It’s well worth picking up the eBook version or the paper back dependant on your preference. I prefer reading kindle because my hands are knackered with arfur and all the knobbly bits. – I’m just getting your little grey cells working there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Day 57,000,965,000 in lockdown in pokey – or something similar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I spent the evening reading my kindle with a cup of hot chocolate. What’s all that about? The wine bottle called to me but it eventually gave up and climbed back into the rack. Eventually I took the kindle to bed and snuggled under the duvet. This is an old house and it gets cold quickly, but I refuse to put the heating on. It’s May for goodness sake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I woke at some ungodly hour for a wee and noticed a reflection shinning on the ceiling. It turned out to be the solar lights reflecting their light from the garden. Phew. I eventually fell asleep again at … I have no idea, I was asleep right? Come on, get a grip.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I padded down stairs in my dressing gown and stuck the kettle on for a hot cuppa. It’s still so cold out there and we had a frost! What’s that all about? Brekkers today was a bacon and tomato sarnie. It was a bit like a builder’s breakfast and a mug of builder’s tea except I like mine a bit weaker.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I got the cleaner out today again, but couldn’t get motivated enough to use it so I checked on all the seedlings that are growing. The carrots are really taking off, as are the onion and spring onions. Finally, the peppers have popped their heads up to take a look around. They can all be planted outside soon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I forgot to fill the bird feeders up this morning and it was so strange to see the array of different species of birds lining up on the fence scouting everywhere for just one seed. So, I put a coat on and went out to fill everything up. They all flew off of course squawking but a couple of the bigger braver birds stayed to see what I was doing. It was to their advantage of course as they got first dibs once I went inside. I love my new sitting position by the window as I get to watch them all in secret. They soon made short work of the seed everywhere, as I scatter it on the grass as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Whilst having lunch of savoury chicken rice, I contemplated my navel for fluff. No of course I didn’t but I bet you either went eww… not when you’re eating. What are you thinking. OR What did you find?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I put the tv on at 2pm and caught up with some films I’d recorded. That took me to around 6pm and I was getting peckish so I cooked dinner. Salmon with mash potatoes and veggies followed by a cornetto ice cream. I know but I needed the treat. And I syned it, which was about at least 65! It’s chocolate remember. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At 8pm I went outside along with all my neighbours on their doorsteps to clap. It was freezing on our side of the road, so we didn’t stay as long as usual. I was pleased to get back inside to a hot drink. It was a quite evening of tv and a late glass of wine and then bed around 10pm. Nighty nighty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I woke up at 08.30 this morning. I was surprised to see how light it was. I don’t pull the curtains at the back of the house at night as I can lay in bed and watch the birds in the trees going about their business early morning. Oh and also normally I watch the sun rise. I was too late for all of that this morning. It did feel warmer though so I slipped on my dressing gown and made a cuppa rosy. Don’t start!! I decided on fried egg on toast with bacon tomatoes and mushrooms. Nom nom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I spend the morning working on my computer and also updating this blog from yesterday. I did consider stopping doing them in case they were becoming boring but the general consensus seemed to be – No! keep doing them we like to know what you’re up to. Ok fair enough. I put a status up on FB saying … <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">” I wonder how long it will be before the wildlife realise it was only a short reprieve” The air has been cleaner and the skies so blue. Then during a conversation with Phill Thorne on Radio Ashford I suddenly said I can’t wait for my window cleaner to return to work. Basically, that will mean another couple of cars on the road and back to the pollution again, so how selfish was that comment?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I should finish this story I'm reading over the week end I reckon and then all will be revealed for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On a daily basis, I tune in to Wake up with Webbo and Phill Thorne. It’s a great local community station literally looking after the community. Webbo does his show from the studio from 6am until 11am all on his lonesome in a deserted building - at the moment - and then Phill takes over up until 2pm… From his spare bedroom which he’s turned into a studio because, like me, he’s shielding. How’s that for commitment. Also they promote me regularly as a local author.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Day 48 Monday 4</span><sup style="font-family: inherit;">th</sup><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">May</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And may the force be with you. I’ve never seen the film but there you go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I woke up early this morning with the sun streaming in through the window and it was a gorgeous sunrise. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brekkie was continental washed down with a cuppa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Today it was the turn of the kitchen. Next time I get these bright ideas, sit me down and give me a good talking too. I was up to my eyes in muck and spiders from under the stairs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I took plenty of breaks and lunch was a cornetto ice – I know but I fancied it ok and it was a reward for my efforts. Finally, I sat down at 3.30pm and its still not done. All that tiling to clean and white goods. It’s starting to get that sparkly clean look though.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was in a steak mood so I cooked a nice rare steak with chilli rice, and washed it down with pink diet lemonade. I am good sometimes and left the wine in the rack.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I suddenly realised I hadn’t changed the bed linen which is a mission in itself. I never get it right and end up with lumps of duvet inside the cover. Finally, after several shakes it was there. I really can’t stand the job, and I was so knackered I went to bed and read kindle till 10.30ish. Nighty night and see you tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I awoke at 4.40am for a wee and couldn’t get back to sleep, so I watched the sun rise and listened to the dawn chorus. It was so peaceful considering what is going on all over the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I tuned into Webbo at 6am and finally got up just after 7am. I looked at FB and it was the same old same old. Breakfast was another continental brekki, which I’m really getting into on these warm mornings and of course my cuppa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Around mid morning while having a coffee (I know. I don’t know what came over me drinking coffee) I decided that I would change the lounge around. Next time I get these bright ideas, just tie me to a chair until I come to my senses. I wanted to move my sofa so that I can see out of the back window which overlooks the back garden and watch the birds feeding in the back garden. However to do that I had to move a half moon pouffe, three tall plants in heavy pots, two lamps, a full recliner chair, and a 42” tv on a stand. Put and take had nothing on me. As I moved one piece of furniture it was replaced by something else. Finally I had everything moved by very slow, push and shove method. Then it was the tv on the stand. It was a case of push a bit and then rest. It took me as long to do that, as it did to do the rest of the furniture move. I’m so pleased with the result though and I can now sit on the sofa by the back window and watch all the activity in the garden. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I finally got the blog to post. I don’t know why it’s such an issue all of a sudden. Well actually yes, it’s everyone working from home I guess. Right? It’s a frigging pain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Being a glutton for punishment I had a shower and then it was back to the kitchen. It’s cupboard cleaning today. Actually I got side tracked because it’s a grotty job and I ended up taking a drink into the garden in the sun. It’s lovely to feel the warmth of the sun on your face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I’d set the alarm for 6 am; what’s that all about? But as it was a beautiful morning I got up and sat in the garden with my cuppa. Maybe a bacon sarnie for brekkers today, and a major tidy up in the garden as it’s starting to look neglected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was so lovely to spend the morning in the garden, and the grass even got cut. The shasta daisies are beginning to grow in the lawn again and I’m hoping for a bumper crop this year as it takes on the appearance of a mini meadow. The only trouble is, after a while they do ‘pen and ink’ a bit if you get too close, but that’s the trade off. Pen and ink? That’s cockney rhyming slang. So your lesson for today is …?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Padded downstairs in the nuddy as it was so early. Well the birds flew off when I opened the door. Now was that the sight of me in the nude or a general call to arms I wonder?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyhows I made my cuppa, put my dressing gown on and took it outside. My garden is quite secluded and then had an English come continental brekkie. Don’t ask. I said don’t ask….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I sat in the garden around 5pm after the birds had fed and then watered the garden. I came back to my glass of wine and there's an insect doing the front crawl. Well I gave him the boot and he was last seen drying/dying on the grass. Flipping cheek.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">VE day today and I woke at 3.45am on the dot. What’s that all about. I was wide awake and lay there for a couple of hours just listening to the birds and watching the dawn rise. Eventually I fell asleep again around six for an hour. Time to get up and have a cuppa outside. Whilst on a visit to the bathroom I checked out my moustache and roots. Yep don’t go there. It’s a nightmare. I’ve got hairs sprouting out of everywhere. Who knew it was possible even.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s 08.54 and I’m just starting to feel peckish. As I’m dressed I’m going to eat outside. Probably bacon and egg tomatoes and toast. It’s lovely eating outside in the sun and watching the wild life scampering about. Mind you I haven’t seen Cyril for a while and there’s that new squirrel hotel I bought for him, full of peanuts and untouched. I bet he’s up in the trees with Cyrileena making whoopee. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Come the afternoon and I had been lazing in the garden all day. I suddenly heard music across the road and when I looked out the back gate there is an impromptu VE party going on in my neighbours front garden. They had the bunting and all the forties music, so armed with my chair I staked my place outside their gate to social distance and went back for the wine bottle and glass. By the time I got back the gate had been opened so I </span>could<span style="font-family: inherit;"> still feel part of the group and there was Pimms on offer but I stuck to the wine. My neighbour Bett was in her garden next door, with Jan and Kenny whose gate I sat outside of, which meant we could all see and hear each other while keeping our distance and joining in with Vera Lynn. It was great to catch up as we’re all sheltering. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The evening was spent in my beautiful garden just chilling and watching nature. Pigeons and white collard doves billing and cooing and doing what comes naturally. No tv for me tonight. Just the peace and quiet of the garden. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Right then here’s one of my poems from July 2001, which I wrote when I was in Avoca, where they filmed the series Ballykissangel. I had several pints of </span>Guinness in the pub they did the filming in. I have Irish blood running through my veins on my maternal side.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How are you coping with the lock down? Some days I really struggle. How about you? Do you want to tell me about it? You might as well I’ve got nothing else to do except write this blog, housework, and gardening. No? Ok then here we go with the diary....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Day 41 Monday 27<sup>th</sup> April<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Another early rise for me this morning as I just knew my blog was going to be a beastie to post and I was right. Armed with a cuppa and some fruit for my brekkie, I made a start. I spent most of the morning trying to post the blethin thing. I took a break for lunch and finally it stopped trying to top itself and posted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lunch I decided on a quick cheese and pickle sandwich. I haven’t had one of those for ages. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Blow me if my emails folder didn’t do a runner and went walk about. Then they just reappeared when I went back into them. What ever!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It turned pretty mucky outside but the bird feeders needed filling so I made the effort and the birds sat in a row on the fence and thanked me individually. At least I think that’s what it was. Or maybe they were just telling me off. Who knows. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I decided to do chilli for dinner tonight with savory rice and a glass of wine. Just the one Mrs Wembly . (Very old, English comedy TV series with Dennis Waterman.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I caught up on Monarch of the Glen which I’ve been missing, had a mug of hot chocolate and I was off up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire. Nighty night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So then I woke up before 6am and I was wide awake. I pulled the front bedroom curtains and …. What a grotty day outside. Jim jams this morning and my dressing gown as I supped at my cuppa rosy (don’t start you know by now what I’m on about)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I had a massive grill up again for brekkie – bacon eggs mushrooms and tinned tomatoes with multi seeded brown toast. Well of course it would be wouldn’t it? It’s toasted. So many smart arses out there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Then it was time to catch up with emails, followed by a bit of promotion of the lovely Joely Tonna and Crystal Chard. Both authors local to me and joely of course did the Lockdown song. If you haven’t heard it then you can listen to it here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Here's a bit of cosmic synchronicity. I spoke to Joely on messenger and we discovered the following, bearing in mind that I've never met her before and never heard of her before hearing the Lockdown song.<br />
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I stated that I knew a Fabiola Tonna when my son was growing up. It’s her sister!<br />
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I mentioned that back in the 70’s my friend and I had rented a house in Malta from a Joe Tonna. He’s her dad and it’s her family home.<br />
Coincidence 3 I had lost touch with the friend and it turns out she’s a dear friend of Joely. So there you have it. Sometimes fate works in mysterious ways</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well I had to get the bin in so I showered and dressed in trackies. You can throw them off in the wash bin in a jiffy. It takes longer to pop the sterile gloves on and disinfect the whole bin with wipes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My next mission was to replace the battery in the remote control for the radio. I couldn’t get the back open because I’ve got nerves trapped in my left hand (don’t go there) So after a consultation with a friend, he came up with a suggestion to open it. It was that or throw it, but I’m a stubborn cow that doesn’t like to be beaten. I won’t tell you how I managed it as it would take to long but it’s finally done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This took me up to the 11am one minute silence for all the NHS that had died through Corona virus. I watched it on the ‘net and yes it was very emotional as the news panned all over the country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I decided to read through one of my works in progress. It gave me some new ideas for the plot lines. It seems forever since I wrote anything on my novels, it’s been mostly short stories and this blog, which surprisingly takes up quite I bit of time. I take notes during the day and write it up the following morning. It’s Wednesday but I’m writing up Tuesdays diary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I took a cup of hot chocolate to bed at 9pm and read my psychological thriller I downloaded. Very much a “don’t leave your feet out of bed and keep the duvet up to the chin.” I finally put it down around 11pm. Nighty night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I felt a bit decadent around 5pm so I had some chocolate raisins and a glass of wine. I put it down to the crap weather. I so miss that gorgeous sunshine of last week. Was it last week? I don’t know, the days and weeks all roll into one at the moment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Morning all Well I was awake three times during the night all bathroom visits, which is down to all the water I drank yesterday. I gave up and got up at 5am and made myself a cuppa rosy – now now, behave and put those hands down and put the brains in gear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I tuned in and chatted to Webbo at 6am and did some of his brain gymnastic games. I got pipped to the post by Dapper Dickey Freeman to be top of the texting tree so I told Webbo to duff him up. Mid morning I finally decided to have brekkie which was chocolate chip Weetabix. 40 grams to be exact to be slimming world friendly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">8pm I was outside with my neighbours clapping our hearts out. Each week there are even more joining in with pots and spoons, all making as much noise as we can. A special cheer went up as our neighbour who is a paramedic appeared on the doorstep. We owe so much to them. In some cases our lives, whether it’s trough this situation or other ailments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hot chocolate was called for which warmed me through. I’ll probably get a sugar surge with all this chocolate. I managed to stay awake until just before 10pm so I popped off the beddy byes with my kindle. Nighty night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Time to feed the birds and top up all the feeders. I have one feeder that looks like a little house and hangs from a mock orange bush but it’s quite difficult to fill. So I hold the bag of food in my left arm and take handfuls of seeds out to fill it with my right hand (still with me?) Well, while I was concentrating on filling the small gap under the roof of the house I </span>suddenly<span style="font-family: inherit;"> realised the top of the bag had tipped over and now there is a big pile of bird seed on the grass. Someone will have a full puffed out <o:p></o:p></span>stomach tonight. </div>
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I was late with dinner tonight so I had a glass of wine with it. Gardeners World got recorded and I finally watched it before going to bed. Guess what I'll be doing in bed? Yep the kindle is waiting. Nighty night. See you next week on Day 48 still locked in the pokey.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Just for a change I’m including one of my short stories that I wrote just after I started writing full time. The book Eye of Erasmus managed to get to drum roll ...... #3 on Amazon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Of course, it’s now incorporated in the trilogy called Soulfate. Here’s the link if you want to take a look…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Feeling bored on the earthly plain I needed a change. Isn’t it great when you’ve got two places of residence?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My earthly home was great when the sun was shining and frequently I sat there sipping wine and dreaming of the perfect man. Was there one? No way! I could always invent one of course then I could mould him into perfection. This meant putting words on paper as writers do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you’ve never been very close to a cloud such as mine, then I imagine you would think a cloud is a cloud right? No! Mine was special; soft, fluffy and just big enough to lay flat out on, but also large enough for one more body when I had the urge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On this particular day I was feeling lonely. I needed a mate to either pass the time with or at least one to fantasize about. I had my notebook with me and my wild imaginings started to take shape. What was I looking for in the perfect lover or indeed the perfect man? He needed to be a bit on the wild side. Just enough on the side of eye candy to create an interest for me. He would also need a bit of a sadistic nature to combat my wild ways. How about a bit of a dark side of which I would know nothing? I was really getting into this now, and the thought excited me. I sat and pondered a bit more just to see if I could enhance him in any way. This is when fantasy started to take over. He would be called Erasmus and would be my very own time travelling lover with attitude. I fell in love with him, my very own secret lover.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This arrogant man (who by now I had fallen in love with) also needed to be brought down a peg or two. I allowed him to bed as many women and in some cases men as he wanted and then pull him up sharply. Did he really think he was going to get away with that? No way! I allowed him a vision in which he saw the woman of his dreams. Would I allow him to make contact with her though? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How are you all? Still inside staying safe I hope. So then, what have I been up to this week. Here's your weekly fix.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Day 34 Monday 20<sup>th</sup> April<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well I had a late start this morning, so had a brunch, which was a SW fry up and it was delicious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Most of the morning was taken up by sorting out my blog and posting it. Why does it pose such a problem at times? I blame blogger, it can’t be anything to do with my technological expertise. Hah!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I spent a lot of the morning talking to Joely Tonna on FB. You must remember her, she was the young lady I included in my blog last week singing It’s a lockdown. It turns out that she also wrote a book for 8 – 12 year olds called Living the Dream which I’ve been promoting. Joely belongs to a book club and recommended my books to them, so it was a win win. Here's the link.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I had an early dinner for a change as I was a bit Hank Marvin. Cockney rhyming slang. Come on, keep up you lot. It was a chicken stir fry with veggies, chillies, garlic and Greek yoghurt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I decided to watch the news. Mega mistake. It’s just so depressing. I’d rather scroll the news channel on my phone. That way you can scroll past what you don’t want to read.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh I actually remembered to put the bins out. Yay. I popped out quickly in my jim jams and dressing gown. Well it was after dark and there was no one about.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I made a cuppa of Lady Grey for a change. What’s the betting I don’t complete an all nighter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I gave up on the puzzle by the way. Did I say? It was boring me to be honest. Anyway, I’m off to snuggle up with my kindle. Night night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And here we go again. It’s another day in the pokey. If it wasn’t for the nice weather and getting out in the garden I’d be in the funny farm I think. Some say I’m an escaped resident anyway. The refuse collectors woke me up, so I thought I may as well start the day. I went down in my dressing gown which came undone as I opened the back door. Ew that chill of cool air on bare skin. Brrr roll on full summer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Kettle had boiled, so I took cuppa into the lounge and took out my Angels and Ancestors Oracle Cards. These are new to me and I love them. I shuffle each time I use them and let them choose a card for me. Wonderful artistry by Lily Moses. Many of you didn’t know that I’ve been psychic, clairvoyant, clairaudient, psychometry, and a distance healer, animal healer, and loads of other things since a youngster. Well you do now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I had fruit for brekkie this morning with strawberry yogurt for a change. Oh and no I didn’t make it through the night. No idea what time I got up but it was still dark. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I do think my hay fever is worse this year. I wonder if it’s to do with the clear air quality. Fortunately, I found a fresh pack of my hay fever tabs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ve got a Tesco delivery today. I have no time slot, so it means I’ve got to hang around inside. I’m just chuffed that I got one, so I spent nearly all day on the Mac while I was waiting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I need some exercise me thinks. I turned up the radio and had a bit of a dance around the room. I think the song was sex on the beach. Those were the days lol.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yay the Tesco man has been and we were like one of those clocks where the man goes inside as the woman pops out trying to do social distancing. We managed it quite well. I do so hate putting shopping away though, it’s like going on a mission. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">It meant I could have a couple of hours in the garden sitting in the sun. Lovely. A glass of iced water for when It got too warm and the parasol was close by if it got too hot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I finally came in around 6ish and left the birds to their feeding. My garden is full of robins, white collard doves and pigeons. I love it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Salmon and salad for dinner with a glass of wine. A bit of telly catch up and to bed. Nighty night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Day 36 Wednesday 22<sup>nd</sup> April<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I had a really good nights’ sleep and woke just before 6am<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Absolutely wide awake. As usual I tuned into Webbo. I don’t always take part in his brain gymnastics but I enjoy listening.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This morning I was back on the Mac again. This time editing my story for the UK Crime Book Club Spring Shorts. It’s a seasonal thing so to speak with Halloween tossed into the mix as well. I love doing short stories and try to keep to the theme. This one’s a bit different though as it’s sci-fi. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After lunch I potted up all the veggie seeds. I’m a bit late this year but it’s strange times. Anyway they are all sitting on my windowsill enjoying the sun, until they start to pop their shoots up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Guess what I did next? Straight out in the garden to enjoy the sun. Yet again I stayed out there until dinner time. I even took a glass of wine out there around 17:45 and watched the birds feed around me. If I don’t move they are happy with me being there. My garden is so magical at times. It’s a joy to sit there and watch the sun go down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I decided to have an early night and carry on with the story I’m reading. It’s a psychological thriller by S. Burke. I always get so absorbed in her stories. Nighty night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Day 37 Thursday 23 April<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well I had another good nights sleep and took my early morning cuppa into the garden. It was warm and peaceful. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I made the decision to do an early morning watering as the ground was so dry. That took me a couple of hours. I could feel the tops of my naked legs getting burnt already, so I swopped</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">my short shorts for a knee length pair. Behave! I’m beyond the days of skimpy bikini bottoms… Well maybe…</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After lunch there was a loud knock on my front door. As I opened it, my granddaughter </span>Maddie<span style="font-family: inherit;"> scuttled back to my son on the other side of the fence while I stayed at the door. Mum was working from home and Maddie was going stir crazy and in need of a hug. Of course it couldn't happen and it became quite emotional at one point love her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tonight at 8pm my neighbours and I were outside clapping for everyone and slowly the numbers are increasing and getting noisier. The community feeling is wonderful. I do hope it lasts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Day 38 or is it Day 6738? It feels like it to be honest, but in fact it’s Friday 24<sup>th</sup>April<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I woke later today. Typical when I’d planned on so much work in the garden. I dug up a passion flower and clematis to replant in the sun. Totally the wrong time but they grow up my shed which desperately needs replacing. If I leave them to flower and grow as usual, then I will have to cut them both back when I replace the shed and they will get damaged. So they’ve got two chances. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After lunch I checked my hair growth. Yep it’s coming along nicely. My roots are a sort of dirty blonde colour but the sun is bleaching my hair as usual anyway. So I can sort of live with that. My moustache and leg hair though… Oh deary me. I sooo need some threading and waxing done… Sighs. I'm just going to shut my eyes to it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was so lovely in the garden I decided to spend the afternoon and evening there. It was absolutely beautiful just sitting there watching the sun go down with a couple of glasses of wine. The breeze was rustling the leaves of the trees. The sky was a tropical blue and the birds were feeding at the feeders. I wonder where Cyril is? I’m going to put his squirrel hotel up tomorrow and fill it with food. I can see him wrecking it at first feeding. Oh well. Nighty night folks. See you next week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I've got another book for you to check out and yes another local author to me who has brought out her debut novel. Here's the link and check out the reviews.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B086FWHYJZ#customerReviews" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B086FWHYJZ#customerReviews</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">MARY ANN GEERING<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">THE MURDERING MOTHER<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1800 – 1849<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have an ancestor named the murdering mother<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She killed at random like no others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lived in Guestling in Sussex by the sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This has only recently become known to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She married Richard Geering when pregnant with the first<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At Westfield in a little church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Twenty pounds in total was told to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">During 1846 and 1849<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She killed her children one at a time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The coroner and police got wind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Realising that she had sinned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Exhumed the bodies to check it out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Recorded in history and now widely read. <span style="font-size: x-small;">©</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Author T K Geeringhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811208566475939610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529803977753915593.post-66019379433623523912020-04-20T11:39:00.000+01:002020-04-28T14:42:58.184+01:00And i'm still in the pokey<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">5/12 Living in the pokey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well Easter went well don’t you think. How strange was that? The days just seemed to roll into one another.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Easter Saturday I spent mostly chilling in the garden. I’m really enjoying catching up on my reading in the sun. So relaxing and you can forget about the current troubles in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Easter Sunday my neighbour invited me to join him in a roast pork dinner with all the trimmings. It was delicious and I had my wine while he was drinking spirits. I should add that he was sitting in the corner of his garden in the shade and I was doing social distancing under the umbrella in my garden. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">So then another week of excitement begins. Oh this is an updated piccy of me before I start my diary for you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I spent mostly indoors doing jobs that I have been putting off which took me around to lunchtime. I got the MacBook Air out and updated my blog. I also re-edited my short story for the UK Crime Book Club. It will be featured there next Thursday. I do them mostly for fun and giggles (what’s new there) but this time it has a sci-fi flair to it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ok so I’ve been fibbing about these homemade meals that I’ve been tempting your taste buds with. Or am I???? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There was no way I was taking the bin out in my birthday suit. I hadn’t ironed it for goodness sake AND they may decide not </span>to <span style="font-family: inherit;">come back to me next week. Not worth the risk. I’ll just squash down the recycling cardboard etc. to make more room.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Did I tell you that the UKCBC talked me into recording an audio chapter for their Virtual Crime Festival? Actually, I quite enjoyed it as it was from my current work in progress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Just before lunch there was an ominous, very loud, knock on the door which made me jump. It turned out to be an Amazon delivery of my new toy; the Echo Dot. It was a week early. After putting on my gloves and disinfecting all the outer covering I put it by the TV to set up later. I had to download the app of course which I did later. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I took a soft drink out to the garden to just sit and enjoy the fresh air but it was pigging freezing with the strong easterly wind so I came in again. Not my wind I hasten to add. I did some more recording of my audio and finally finished it to my satisfaction. There’s nothing like getting half way through a recording and pronouncing a word wrongly. The word was patron but I kept pronouncing it patronne as in the French way for some reason. I even put warning markers to advise me it was coming up. Eventually I spelt it pay-tron and coloured it red to make sure I saw it coming up. Problem solved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I actually did some housework this afternoon, which frightened the life out of the spiders busy spinning webs everywhere. The vacuum cleaner seemed a bit shocked as well, but it plodded along reluctantly complaining every so often as it was tired poor thing. I must admit I did more that I anticipated and decided on a nice cuppa. I had coffee for a change. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Day 30 Thursday 16<sup>th</sup> April<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I woke at 05.40 for a wee which was long enough to call it nearly an all nighter. That’ll do for me. For some reason I was wide awake and lay there listening to the birds and their dawn chorus. The sun rise was beautiful to watch. Especially this time of the year. I put Webbo on the radio at 6am and got involved in his “early riser” brain teasers. I wasn’t too shabby either. Thursday is the new quarter to Friday time. See - I'm educational as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I decided to get up early with my day all planned out whilst I’d been listening to the radio. I drank my early cuppa and then promptly dozed off on the sofa. Fortunately I had finished my drink. So much for my early morning plans so I worked on my UKCBC short story for a while and then had a continental breakfast for a change. Mmmm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was going into the garden to plant some seeds but I got side tracked sorting out the bird feeders and trying to make them squirrel proof. I actually sat in the garden with a coffee. Very unusual for me but it was nice. Oh and I tripped up on one of Cyril’s holes at the top of the garden when I was sorting out some dead wood. I haven’t seen him lately. That’s probably the kiss of death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What can I occupy myself with today I’m wondering? I was thinking about housework again but that thought just passed through on its way to somewhere else thank the gods.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I fancied a cornetto chocolate chip ice cream for brekkie. Anything goes these days it seems, but I thought about my weight and slimming world and instead settled for porridge with honey and mixed dried fruit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I checked my roots as I passed the mirror in the bathroom. Big mistake, I shouldn’t have done that, oh and my moustache is growing nicely. Maybe it will become trendy after this entrapment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Caught up on TV in the evening with a couple glasses of wine and had an early night with my kindle. How the other half live eh?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Her name is</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Joely Tonna but she goes under the name of Joely Tiger. Enjoy the topical lyrics and music plus everything else in this catchy and addictive song which is very appropriate at the moment. She is also a very modest young lady. Please take a look at her link below</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Some of us are fat and some of us are thin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Why do we do this, it doesn’t matter a jot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">Well that was a fantastic weekend and the weather was amazing. So then here we go and the format seems to be changing weekly. I guess it stops it from becoming stale.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">I had oats with honey and dried mix fruit for brekkie. We’ve had this discussion before so don’t start again you’re beginning to become boring, I like it okay? I did my ablutions and had such a time getting all the oats out of my teeth .. AND I’ve got an electric toothbrush. Anyone else have that trouble I wonder?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">I spent most of the day uploading the blog. well that was the plan, it started to drive me to despair. Blogger is really playing up since this work from home malarkey started. I may have to stop doing these if blogger is going to continually play up. The trouble is I can see it saving in blogger, but when I close the page to upload it, it then tells me that I have unsaved changes. Jog on for goodness sake you’ve just saved it! Twice I've lost everything and had to retype it all. I was losing the will to live. I’ve now started to copy and paste from a word document, which seems to help. Finally, I got it to upload and post.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">Lunch was a crab stick salad which was very tasty and it was so beautiful outside I ate it in the garden. Lots of hand washing has been going on today and the sound of motor bikes going up and down the main road slightly off in the distance really wound me up. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: , serif;">My son and his wife's friend lives next door and we had a nice quite drink together in the sun … Him in his garden and me in mine keeping the designated distance between us... We conversed between the large gap in one of my garden bushes. So we could both see and hear each other. We were both safe and yet there were even more dickheads racing around the main road in the distance. Stupid people make me angry. Moving on before I get started.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">We stayed out there most of the afternoon and early evening and the wine flowed just a little bit </span><span style="font-family: "wingdings";">J</span><span style="font-family: , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">Eventually I took my kindle to bed and carried on reading my psychological thriller about a serial killer. Great to read just before bed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">Woke up at 06.28. How precise is that? I did another all nighter and I'm proud of my achievement You have to be of a certain age to understand how uplifting this is. (anytime from 40 years onward will do it)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">I had lots to do today and it was going to be 16 deg which is pretty warm for April. So I ignored FB and popped downstairs to make my rosy and listen to Webbo. I can’t have him all on his own chatting to himself on the radio. He gets up before 5am to do his radio show and update us on what we need to know regarding who's delivering food etc in the community. Not everyone can get a supermarket shop delivered now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">Actually it’s quite nice to sit outside with a beverage and enjoy the first rays of the sun. There’s a strong feeling of Spring in the air. Absolutely super for us hay fever sufferers. Not...!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">Showered and dressed in shorts and top with a track suit on, because quite frankly I’m not interested in getting dressed up to get the bins in now. I’m sure the bin men don’t give a hoot as they’re too busy trying to protect themselves I reckon.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">After brekkie and another cuppa I got stuck into shredding old paper receipts and bills. There’s something immensely satisfying about that job. Most of it was about two years old. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">By one o’clock I was starving and my small portable shredder was gasping for breath and quite hot, so I prepared lunch of jacket potato and salad while it cooled down. I washed it down with wait for it … a bottle of water and very nice it was too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">The garden was calling me. Mostly it talks </span>to me quite nicely but sometimes It’s extremely rude like when it come out with, “Oi! Are you going to weed and water me or what?” Probably ‘or what’. Anyway, I digress; I spent the afternoon in the garden reading and trying to avoid Cyril’s nut holes. Some of them are truly worse than the pot holes in the roads around here. He finds it funny when I trip down them. It was beautiful sitting in the garden as it’s quite sheltered.<br />
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">I finished off the shredding (neglected after our previous conversation) ready for my new portable file carrier and did some filing. Having got the boring grot stuff out of the way I enjoyed a three egg ham and tomato omelette for brekkie. Very ‘nommy’<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">I spent the rest of the day in the garden as the sun was lovely. There was loads of tidying up to do after the winter storms, and I can’t wait to order a new shed. My current one is doing it’s best but it’s definitely struggling and won’t last another year. I definitely needed to wash my handies after being in there. Talk about muck and bullets. Soo many cobwebs and spiders. I definitely needed the trackie bottoms, wellies, long sleeved top and pith helmet. I must have looked just like a flowerpot man from the kiddies programmes of years ago. Having climbed over the lawn mower and every other obstacle I put in there at the end of last winter, I found all my old wind chimes hanging up. I negotiated the way back slowly. Just remember I have several, heavy wind chimes in both hands now to put around the garden trees. I definitely want to get some more solar lights locally, but it’s not classed as essential shopping so they will have to wait awhile. Sighs. I seem to be getting into a pattern now of working inside during the morning, and working in the garden in the afternoon. I was quite knackered by dinner time so I ate inside as it began to get dark (steak and salad and yep a glass of course) Lots of catch up TV to watch and then beddie byes. Nighty night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">I woke up at just after 1am wide awake – no I didn’t need the loo, I think it might have been the super moon’s influence and I watched it for a while through the open curtains. It was huge and (to me) powerful. I love the moon, can you guess? I went back to sleep just before 5am and slept ‘til 9am. Ok I also played around on FB as well, I also felt like I’d been hit with a sledge hammer when I woke up. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">I had a cuppa in the garden along with my brekkie and spent the day in the garden working. Yes of <i>course</i> I got showered and dressed first, wise guy. Hah! I just popped in for water and snacks and it was lovely. I wasn’t very hungry so had a light supper and sloped off to bed with a hot chocolate and my kindle. Another day tomorrow and I think I got a bit sunburnt today on my arms and back. See you tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">Well for most people this would be the first day of a long Easter holiday weekend but as most people except key workers are self isolating it’s just another day at the moment. </span>My day started early at 7am. Ok I lied; it’s not that early for me but then I hopped to the bathroom twice during the night. It’s all the extra water I’m taking on at the moment. It was obviously going to be a good day weather wise as the usual dickheads were already out on the main road. So many evil thoughts went through my mind, but I sincerely wish that they get away with their stupidity. I wouldn’t wish this virus on <i>anyone</i>. However, will they ever learn? probably not.<br />
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">After lunch my young neighbour joined me in the garden observing social distancing of course with him at his table on his side and me at mine under the umbrolley. It was really pleasant just sitting there with a glass of wine and reminiscing over the past, as he and my son had grown up together playing in either my garden or his. The twelve pairs of trainers that were always lined up in a neat row on the stairs to my son’s bedroom became the norm. Playing music and computer games in my sons' room. A mixture of kids from their school and quite often broken homes. At least if they were there, then I knew they were safe. In some cases it was a safe haven from home life. Most of them still call me mum to this day. They always had two chances. Screw up the first time over anything and I let them off after a bit of a talking too. Do it again and they didn’t return.That was my only rule and I very rarely had any trouble. They’re all grown up with their own families now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">Eventually I moved inside to watch TV that I had recorded while he went in to watch some Netlix. It was a very relaxing evening, but then I taught him how to tie his shoes laces as a youngster.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">After a while via FB messenger, I chatted to my author friend in Germany and it was good to touch base. We are a bit nutty when we get together, but then I got him in a headlock to bring him over to the dark side back in the day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">So then this is a current photo of me and where all the hair is sprouting from.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">So then I got up around 7am and padded downstairs in the buff. There’s still no one to see my unironed sexy form (hah) so it doesn’t matter a jot. No one can see me from the back door anyway and there was a lovely early morning feel albeit a bit chilly. I put the kettle on to make my cuppa and pondered my brekkie. I decided on a nice bacon sarnie with tinned tomatoes on the side but I needed to shower and get dressed first.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">Brekkie finished I decided to see if blogger had finally posted my blog. Woo hoo and about time too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">My friend Face timed me and after the niceties which included our root growth she wrote down my veggie order for later in the week. She’s a good girl as there are many older people living close by to her, and the hubster and she are shopping for us all. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">I checked into FB and there was all the usual stuff but so many games as well being played. I joined in with some of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">It got to lunchtime and I decided on homemade veggie soup with left overs from the fridge. Very tasty it was too. I also remembered to take the bin out for tomorrow. What to have for dinner tonight was my next thought and I settled on Salmon which needed to defrost. Gone are the days of being able to have everything fresh and popping into town for top ups. |I decided to do smiley face chips and salad with it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">The evening seemed to come around far to quick and I spent most of it watching the telly followed by hot choccy and bed with my ever faithful kindle. I must remember to recharge it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">Well I woke up at just after midnight and yet I didn't go to bed until 11pm. Didn’t need a wee this time I was just restless. What’s that all about. I got back to sleep eventually but then woke up just after 6.30am and switched on Webbo at Radio Ashford and joined in with the games. FB got me hooked and I finally got up at 9.20.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">I made a cuppa rosy (remember our tutorial?) and started to think about brekkie. I know I’m always thinking about food. Do you want to know about my ablutions? Ok I showered and got dressed. No slobbing today though. The biggest decision was what to wear to get the bin in from the front pavement. I decided on a little off the shoulder number, topped with bling, my pink fluffy slippers, blue surgical gloves and disinfectant wipes. It’s my only trip out to the front of the house and I wanted to look my best and the fresh air was wonderful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">By then Phill Thorne was the DJ on Radio Ashford and we did a text chat. I’m going to give a shout out to Radio Ashford because two of them have set up studios in their own home so they can stay on air for us and Webbo goes into the small studio in town at 05.30am for his 6 o/clock slot. It’s a scary place as the building is very very old. Webbo interviewed me there a good while back and you can feel the weird vibes if you’re open to that sort of thing – which I am. It’s so community minded and all three DJ’s are keeping us updated on where or who to contact for help if we need it. I’m going to put the link in so you can get an idea of what they are doing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">I got up to open the front room window and there was my friend waving to me from her car in her snazzy mask and sterile gloves. No clothes, and I bet she got some strange looks in the farm shop. Fancy driving around like that? Don’t get arrested kiddo I need my shopper. So I opened the front door and ducked inside while she placed my veggies on the step. Oh god just don’t bend down lol. She legged it back to the car as I retrieved my goodies. Sitting on top was a spray of spring flowers to cheer me up. Freesias are one of my favourite spring flowers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">Egg mayonnaise sarny with spinach became my lunch with a glass of diet lemonade. I then chatted to my daughter in Law on face time giving us a chance to catch up. My young neighbour next door also text me to see if I needed anything, How lovely is that? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">I don’t know how it happened but I sat down about 3pm and ended up having a power nap. What can I say? I obviously needed it. A walk round the garden was called for as that’s my daily constitutional. Oh what? You wanted to know about that? Sorry I didn’t think to mention it before. Anyway, I had a nice cuppa out there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">I woke up at 06:25 this morning. Oh to sleep in until around 9am but it’s not going to happen is it? Webbo was on so I had a crack at his morning brain gymnastics game, which gets my limited grey cells working and I finally got it right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">It felt a bit chilly so I put my dressing gown on trotted downstairs and put the kettle on. Even with my dressing gown on I could feel it would be freezing as I opened the door. I was right. I took my cup into the front room and left the cold on the other side of the back door. I choose a different sofa by the radiator and looked across to my usual space. Hm! that indent of my bum on the sofa is getting more pronounced.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">I decided on baked beans on toast with scrambled egg for brekkie. It was very filling as it happened. Then showered and got dressed in trackies for a change. I did the inevitable root check and it’s coming on nicely. Lord I’m getting vain </span><span style="font-family: "wingdings";">J</span><span style="font-family: , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">Lunch was a quick sandwich followed by strawberries and a cuppa rosy. I then sat down for a while and checked in on FB as I was so knackered from all the hoovering. I ended up staying there with my feet up until dinner time. I thought about my poor neglected puzzle but I didn’t fancy it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">I woke at just after 6am really refreshed. Obviously the change around of the bed suits my sleeping pattern. It also meant I could sit up in bed and watch the birds as they begin their dawn chorus and do a bit of billing and cooing. Blimey they get more action than I do </span><span style="font-family: "wingdings";">J</span><span style="font-family: , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">I checked in with Webbo and his other early risers as he calls us but I was rubbish at the brain teaser. After a while I started to doze and had the weirdest dream. It started off about a baby laying in a black carry cot, which was followed by a woman on a bus I slightly know from 30 years ago who asked me for a psychic reading. However, I said no because I had just broken my powder compact on the floor of the bus … stay with me, I don’t use face powder. It was a tan coloured powder which reminded me of that certain person. I had a bit of a laugh at myself and got up to make my cuppa. I had Lady Grey for a change then checked in on FB. The lovely Louis Herthum had come over to my page to thank me for sharing the latest series that he’s starring in. He’s also a movie director/producer. He also starred in Murder She Wrote and alongside Anthony Hopkins in Westworld. I contacted a friend in Hollywood that works with HBO and asked if he could arrange for me to interview Louis. He pulled it off and Louis agreed to talk to me in a virtual interview. He’s such a lovely humble man and always pops up on my page to wish me happy birthday etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">I needed to reach a shelf in a cupboard that I usually have a bit of trouble with but it seemed a bit easier today. Out of curiosity I measured my height. Yep up against the wall with the pencil marking and tape. It turns out I’ve grown half an inch (I still use ‘old money’ when I can) to 5’4” It must be my new hip replacement from two years ago which has now completely realigned itself. About time it sorted itself out. I also noted that the bum dent in the sofa is getting deeper. You needed to know that right? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">I somehow got side tracked and began looking at Home Plus website for bedroom and garden furniture. Wow who knew? I need some new garden furniture. Eventually the cleaning got finished and I did some more puzzle and played on FB. The puzzle is a love hate relationship. Then I downloaded Paths of the Dead by Lin Anderson onto the kindle. It’s a psychological thriller. I had a quick look at the story and spent at least an hour reading it. It’s one of those, that’s hard to put down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">Pork with greek yoghurt and salad for dinner which is all SW friendly, however the glass of wine wasn’t as I had already used up my ‘syn’ allowance for the day. I read the new story for most of the evening and went to bed late. Nighty night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">Woke up at 06.06 :) I like to keep my numbers nice and tidy. Then I tuned into Webbo for all request Friday (Listeners get to choose all the songs) and kept him company. I have to admit though I had a bit of a doze and woke up at just after 7am. Webbo was still playing requests and there is so much community love on there. I </span><span style="font-family: , serif;">caught up on FB and decided on bacon tomatoes beans and egg for brekkie and cuppa rosylee… of course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">It’s starting to feel warmer outside and it’s great to have the heating off. The days are becoming more bearable as it warms up. I had a quick shower and then put on pith helmet and plastic suit for sorting out the winter grime attached to the kitchen. How can it get so dirty over winter? I had lunch on the go with a well earned sit down in the afternoon with my feet up. I resisted checking on my roots. See I CAN do this if I try.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">It was tuna pasta bake for dinner with diet coke and I settled down to watch Gardeners World which I love. I decided to have an earlier night and read my kindle way too late but this story is hard to put down. Nighty night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">It stands in line just waiting for me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">That supermarket trolley for all to see<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">I fall for it's charm every time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">The one that's shiny and 1st in the line<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">I know it will steer all over the place<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">I will end up with a red face<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">Why don't I take the tatty one on the end?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">It looks pretty sad and could do with a mend<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">When will I learn that looks don't matter?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">We only push it around and have a natter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">I have to admit old ones work best<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">Truth to tell they've passed every test<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">Abused by shoppers and crashed into stands<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">Used time and again and been through many hands<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">But my pride is at stake image is the thing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">The new shiny trollies go with my bling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">So struggle I will to steer it straight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">My image looks good at any rate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">How I envy the woman gliding with ease<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">She watches me struggling just to tease<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">With shopping done I vow once more<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">No more shiny ones for me I know the score<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;">One is winking at me saying wait 'till next time<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>© <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Author T K Geeringhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811208566475939610noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529803977753915593.post-74424679794703840882020-03-30T10:58:00.000+01:002020-03-30T17:58:17.135+01:00Week 2 of 12 - Life in the pokey <br />
Hello my little chickadees.<br />
How's life going for you? I've actually got time to be interested now that I'm in this lock up. Oh for those heady days when we could wander hither and thither, here and there without a care in the world except for earning a crust to see us through the next months bills etc. blah blah.<br />
Ah! those were the days. What will we tell future generations I wonder? We made it through the Corvid 19!<br />
So what have I been up to this week? You might as well read it as you haven't got anything else on have you?<br />
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Day 8 Locked up in the pokey<br />
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I had to get up at 06:30 for a wee. What you laughing at (Willis) I'm grateful to have made it through a whole night without waking up to go. Also my phone needed charging which meant I became an early riser. Don't go there :)<br />
I opened the back door and promptly shut it again. Well I only had my jammies on and the heating had only just kicked in. Just for the record I don't really wear jim jams but I don't fancy you all seeing my skin until it's been ironed and crease free.<br />
Having put the kettle on I mentally planned what I <i>wouldn't</i> do. The list is endless as you can imagine. I decided to have fruit for brekkie as I had some strawberries that needed using up.<br />
I popped over to FB while I had my early riser cuppa and it was heartening to see how supportive people are being of one another. In the background was my local radio station playing. Webbo keeps us company from 6am until noon. Normally he just does 6am to 10 but the DJ who does 10am onwards is self isolating. As it happens, he's the one who interviewed me live (obviously I wasn't demised) back in the days when we could get out.<br />
One of my settees is a two seater with reclining positions for the back and low risers for the feet. I always sit in the same place and noticed that there is a definite imprint of where my bum rests. Thats a pain because I have a coffee table beside me that I use. Ho hum. It'll be interesting what the shape will be after 12 weeks isolation.<br />
My friend face timed me which was enjoyable as it gave us time to catch up on what we hadn't done!<br />
We did it in our dressing gowns. I find this non wearing of underwear quite liberating and of course it saves on washing. You never know when you can top up on washing powder so it needs to be conserved.<br />
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This afternoon after a lunch of jacket potato (last one for time being until next delivery) beans and cheese on top I decided to use my relatively new dyson and do a bit of a clean up. The only trouble was I'd forgotten how to use the hose part and I had to get the booklet out. (Don't ask)<br />
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I went outside for some fresh air as per our exercise instructions and took out a cuppa. I caught sight of Cyril squirrel. I bet he's been catching up on increasing his kittens brood.<br />
BOJO has officially put us in lockdown now which will mean a complete change of life as we know it. It does make me wonder if we will have a baby boom come nine months from now.<br />
I decided to have an early dinner for a change and then did some more of my puzzle which took me most of the evening. I took a cuppa and my kindle to bed.<br />
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Day 9 Locked up in pokey<br />
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I only made it to 5am this morning before I needed the loo. So I thought I'd make an early start to the day. That didn't happen as the heating hadn't come on yet and it was pigging freezing so I got back into bed and flipped through FB for an hour. I finally got up at 6am to lovely blue skies. I sat back on the sofa in the perfect dent that's now forming due to the shape of my bum (Oi it's only little) and chatted to Webbo on the radio by text. Joining in with his early morning brain teasers. I just couldn't get the answer this morning though.<br />
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It's so quiet outside with no traffic at the end of my road. It does make me wonder about the environment and if this is all having a beneficial effect. I'm breathing so much easier being free of pollution.<br />
I've got lots to do today. Well that's the plan. The washing is on, I'm showered and tucking into my porridge with honey and dried fruit. Yes! we've discussed this before in my last blog. I like it, okay?<br />
Normally I would be at slimming world today but that's out of the question as it's gone online. So instead I've done a bit of ironing. It makes me feel righteous. That will change tomorrow.<br />
Lunch was a sandwich with side salad. Not much of it as it's hard to get hold of. It must have been horrendous during the second world war when rationing came in. Fingers firmly crossed for that one not happening.<br />
I did some more of the puzzle but it's uninteresting to be honest. Still it keeps the grey cells going. The 1pm news was depressing so I turned it off and did some dusting instead. How can spiders make so much mess for goodness sake. They sat up close to the ceiling with no social distancing, watching me, and as soon as my back was turned they started spinning again for goodness sake. Grr. I swear one of them was laughing.<br />
Then I started on the kitchen. Well that was a mission, so I just did the couple of bits of washing up and sat down to read. I've given up with lists they're a waste of time if I'm honest. I'm a bit of a wash and go person.<br />
Tonight for dinner I made a chicken stir fry with greek yoghurt. It was delicious. I also had a couple of glasses of wine. Watched a bit of TV that I had recorded and went to bed. Nighty night.<br />
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Day 10 Locked up in pokey<br />
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Well I only made it to just after 3am this morning before I did a bathroom run. Must have been that last bottle of.... Oh wait I mean... last glass of wine I had. I took ages to get back to sleep and didn't wake up until 8am. I had a lovely grill up this morning. Fried egg, bacon, baked beans, sausage and toast. All slimming world friendly.... Honest! It's what they call free food. The egg I did in Frylight (0cals) and I had cooked sausages the night before in the oven. Warmed up in micro. Easy peasy. Toasted wholemeal bread was my healthy B. Healthy A is mostly the calcium range of milk, cheese etc of which you also have one of a day.<br />
My friend has topped up my veggies (Hurrah) by leaving a bag on the door step and doing a runner in her mask. No clothes, just a mask :)<br />
My granddaughter needed some homework printed off, so my son sat in the car while I did it. We share a printer at the moment. Once done it was put on the step and while I shut myself inside he picked it up and left me a smoothie that my daughter in law had made for me.<br />
It was bed linen change day which is my pet hate and I leave it until the last minute. I intensely dislike the way the duvet always fights back as you try to stuff it in the cover. I've heard all the ideas on the best way to do it. I've tried them all and still get in a mess.<br />
Having done that I went into the garden with a drink to do my walk about. I could hear an argument going on at the front of the property and my curiosity got the better of me so I went in to look. There were four, thirty somethings, in a circle arguing about the lockdown. "It's a f***ing lockdown babe. Get the f**k away from me" She moves closer just to antagonise and gets a slap around the head for her trouble. Then the others join in. "Ain't you got no brains? It's a f***ing lockdown and get away from my door. More screaming at each other while my finger is on speed dial. Eventually they see sense and wander off in different directions. No idea who they were though as Ive never seen any of them before.<br />
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I watched some TV after dinner and had an early night. That duvet changing really tired me out don't you know!!<br />
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Day 11 Locked up in pokey<br />
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I woke up at 7am after doing another all nighter. I'm getting good at this. The house was lovely and warm and I enjoyed a cuppa whilst catching up on FB again. It took me forever to go through all the notifications. Why do we do it for goodness sake? Have I caught this new disease they call FOMO? Fear of missing out? How ridiculous is that one.<br />
I made a second cup of tea and had chocolate chip weetabix for brekkie for a change. Actually it was quite nice. I decided to get the iron out. I had no plans to use it. It was just feeling neglected. So I had a bit of a chat to it. It seemed quite content so I stood it back up in its box by the ironing board.<br />
After lunch I did a bit more housework. Lordee I hate it but it's got to be done.<br />
I had a nice walk in the garden and did a bit of tidying up. All the spring bulbs called out hello as I passed them. The primroses are beautiful this year and it's so nice to open the windows and let the fresh air in. It got me pondering on just how many people are going to work in their jammies. If they are doing conference calls I bet they're having a right laugh.<br />
I had a slimming world meal for dinner and it was delicious. I did sweet roasted tatties on the side. I slummed in front of the TV while the Chancellor updated about the self employed. I'm not even going there on that one but at least he's treating them the same more or less as the employed.<br />
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A hair root check was also called for. Uh oh it's started; but it looks like my roots are a dark blonde which is not too bad. I can live with that. However what I can't live with is the random hairs that are starting to appear on my face. I desperately need my beauty therapist. Oh well at least I can hide indoors and count them as they grow.<br />
Hot chocolate, bed and my kindle after watching late night telly.<br />
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Day 12 Locked up in pokey<br />
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Woke up at 6:30 after a bathroom visit of 02: something or other. I didn't check properly. It was probably that hot chocolate late at night so I only have myself to blame for that. My brekkie was fruit this morning with a nice cup of Lady Grey for a change. Then shower and dressed for my constitutional in the garden. It was bloody freezing but I stuck it out for a while. Another hot drink was called for. It's so lovely to be able to breathe outside but my hay fever has kicked in and there is a hunt for anti histamine going on. Found some. Yay.<br />
Had a quick sandwich for lunch. My Lord the news is depressing so I never bothered putting it on.<br />
I decided to do the slob bit and dossed around all afternoon on my bum Oh and I did some of my puzzle.<br />
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I did a stir fry for dinner with spinach and 'smiley' chips which are my granddaughters favourite.<br />
Telly was a bit boring so I read my kindle and finally went to bed. Nighty night.<br />
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Another one of my poems<br />
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SUNSET<br />
Side by side the beach towels both lay<br />
The yellow one was feminine and sassy<br />
The white one came from Tallahassee<br />
By the edge of the shore they both lay<br />
Waiting for the end of day<br />
The sun beat down and the sea gently lapped<br />
Back and forth at a gentle pace<br />
Nowhere to go except where it had been<br />
No tide to be seen this beach was a dream<br />
A drinks bar at an angle with drinkers around<br />
Yet there seemed to be no sound<br />
But for the sea lapping at the shore<br />
It would do this for ever more<br />
As the late evening sun began to set<br />
A gentle breeze began to blow<br />
The towels moved only a fraction<br />
It was but a mere distraction<br />
The owners returned walking hand in hand<br />
Scooped up the towels and walked back up the sand<br />
The evening sun watched them go<br />
But knew they would be back tomorrow. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">©</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Did you miss me? Ah go on whicha, course ya did, admit it. You like my warped sense of humour. I bet you've forgotten what I look like. This is me stuffing my face as usual.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">While I’m in pokey for the full 12 week duration, I decided to resurrect my blog and give you a weekly update of how I'm surviving. It's just stopping me from ending up at the funny farm really. Or an alco-frolic lol.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">If you’re unsure of the word pokey (ha!) then here is the definition... </span><span style="color: #222222;">pokey</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> - a correctional institution used to detain persons who </span><span style="color: #222222;">are</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> in the lawful custody of the government. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">So I now consider myself in the lawful custody of the government dontcha know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b><u>Day 1 in pokey Monday 16th March 2020</u></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">My first day and I'm fed up already because I usually go out into town or meet up with friends. I'm sitting around in my </span><span style="color: #222222;">jim jams at 9am (I can do the slob thing if I'm in enforced isolation) drinking a cup of rosylee. Its my blog I can call it what I want :) </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222;">I decided to write a list, a plan of action if you prefer. It reads as follows,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222;">Get showered! you're not that much of a slob.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222;">Put jim jams back on. You might as well as there will be no visitors for 12 weeks</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222;">Make breakfast </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222;">Check in on FB</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222;">Read kindle</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222;">Do some neglected housework</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">Check in on FB</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222;">Read kindle</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222;">Prepare <span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">items for crockpot</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Make cuppa</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br /></span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">Check in on FB</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Read kindle</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Catch up on some writing for WIP</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222;">I got bored with that so ripped off the sheet, screwed it up and binned it. Well technically I missed the bin and it's on the floor.</span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">So then what to do with all this time on my hands? I decided to be more constructive and wrote a proper list which would see me through Monday at least. It looked like this...</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Get showered!</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Put clean jim jams on.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Make cuppa</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Read kindle.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">So far so good. </span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">I made lunch in time to watch the 1pm news. Oh look its filled with news updates about the virus. I ate my lunch and switched off after 20 minutes or so. It was so depressing hearing sad statistics. </span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Decided to do some of my jigsaw, and after forcing wrong pieces into place to make them fit I gave up and made a drink. Then I w</span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">ent into the garden and rescued the canopy of my swing seat and screwed it back together again. Flipping winds.</span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">Drink finished I looked at my WIP. That was it! I just looked and closed it again. This is when the thoughts of my blog rose to the forefront of my mind. I remember how much you enjoyed taking a virtual tour around my victims' cave and being held prisoner in chains. I had to make a graph in the end to accommodate you all. At that time my viewing statistics were going through the roof and beyond. They were heady days. </span><span style="color: #222222;">Me chewing on your toes and other extremities when the urge took. (Wash your minds out! I meant arms and legs) as you hanged from the </span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">walls.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222;">I stopped writing them for a very sad reason, </span><span style="background-color: white;">although I did have one set up and ready to go. It was about a good FB friend who sadly left us for a better place, literally just before the interview went live. I was too broken up to post it at the time and I couldn't bring myself to do any more. The lovely Diane Milne will never be forgotten. Or her little ducks and poppy seeds. I bet she's sitting up there on her cloud with her harp in hand surrounded by little ducks and poppies, looking down fondly. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Now seems a good time to start again, so I will carry on with the rest of my week.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><b><u>Day 2 in pokey Tuesday 17th March 2020</u></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span><span style="background-color: white;">Normally I would go to Slimming World and meet up with friends and then gloat that I didn't have to weigh in as I'm a target member. Which basically means I've got to my target weight, and no I'm not telling you but it's just under 10 stone, or around 140lbs for my American Canadian friends. </span>Usually we would have a laugh together, commiserate, or take the 'p' out of ourselves. Instead of that, well I'm sitting here in my dressing gown, having showered and now enjoying a cup of rosy. (keep up) I'm deciding if I should get dressed or not. I made a bacon sarnie for brekkie, and it was delicious. Then I deep cleaned the shower room (kind of).<br />The puzzle was calling to me but I ignored it at first. I'm not really into this one as much as the last one I did, so its become a bit of a challenge.<br />I had my lunch slouching on the sofa while watching the 1pm news. Depressing as always. Showing more closures and how to wash your hands. I expect the schools will have to close soon.<br />I finished off the crockpot meal from yesterday for dinner. Whadya mean eww? It always tastes better on day two. I'm the woman who chewed and ate dirty toe nails and left over bits of limbs when I had my victim cave blog up and running. Some of you will remember.<br />It's 6pm and the sun must be over the yard arm somewhere so a glass of red wine is in order. I'm watching reruns of Monarch of the Glen. It's set in the Highlands of Scotland with beautiful scenery. Some of the cast fit into that 'Oh I fancy him in a kilt and full highland dress' category as well. Also I've got Vera and Endeavour recorded so they make good viewing if I get bored. What DID I do before isolation?<br />9.30pm and I'm going to bed with Faith Martin, (Hillary's Back) on my kindle. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><b><u>Day 3 in pokey Wednesday 18th March 2020</u></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span><span style="background-color: white;">I'm beginning to enjoy this enforced isolation in pokey as I can wander from 'cell' to 'cell' at my own leisure and have full use of the kitchen, fridge, freezer, etc. The shower room is all mine too.</span><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">It's 6:30am. I'm sitting here with my cuppa and notice through the window that the plastic screw has come out of the canopy on my swing seat...again. Hunt for a screw then! (No I'm not that desperate - wash your minds out with carbolic soap, when you washy those handies :) Found the screw after scrabbling about in the (newly grown) grass and replaced it. It's an East North Easterly so you can bet your last bottom $/£ that I'll be doing this on repeat until the wind dies down.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">Brekkie was a 3 egg </span>omelette with spinach and red onion (my slimming world friends will understand) with a mug of rosylee. (Cockney rhyming slang for those still wondering)<br />My relatively new (young) next door neighbours text me today to check if I needed anything. I thought that was a lovely gesture. I explained that I planned to try and work on my WIP which led to another conversation as they didn't realise that I was an author. They asked for a link to my books, so I gave them my Amazon author page and they were like - WOW! we didn't realise. We're avid readers and so is my mum so... :)<br />For lunch I decided to have a jacket potato with tuna and sweetcorn. Delicious. This afternoon i'm doing some more of the puzzle, although I have to admit i'm not so enamoured with this one. I prefer the colourful chocolate box country cottage type which I find relaxing. This one is a seaside scene from the 1950's and the colours seem somehow dull.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />BoJo is on tv giving us an update on statistics and what plans the government have for us. Also what restrictions are in place. Oh and don't forget to washy your handies. Well it certainly makes a change from "Get Brexit Done" doesn't it.<br />6pm and decided to cook roasted veggies, and pork joint with stuffing balls and sweet potato wedges. Nom nom. A glass of red went down well.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Bojo has announced school closures from next Friday night. I guess it'll be pubs, restaurants etc next.<br />It's tv time and relaxation is in order. I'm still enjoying Monarch of the Glen as I haven't seen it since it was first released back in the day. Vera is keeping my criminal brain active as I try to work out "who did it" Sometimes I get it right, but then a major red herring is thrown in and my thoughts go to the pot.<br />Oh well it's 9:30 and my kindle is calling. I've just had a lovely cup of hot chocolate and I fear I'm turning into my dear departed mother who loved it. Night folks and I'll see you tomorrow.... Oh wait! Shouldn't I check into 'nosy book' first? It looks like I have a shed load of notifications to read.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><b><u>Day 4 in pokey Thursday 19th March 2020</u></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span><span style="background-color: white;">Well it was 7:30 before I woke up this morning and very light outside. While the kettle was boiling for my usual morning cuppa I opened the back door to inhale some well needed fresh air. This started me coughing because it was so chuffing freezing! Am I mad? I shut the door and returned to making my tea. Lady Grey or Yorkshire brew. The Yorkshire Brew won.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What to do today? Should I make a really planned out constructive list of jobs to get me off my arse? I decided I might just do that. My rosylee and me, adjourned to the living room sofa and caught up with FB. Great </span>Beelzebub<span style="font-family: inherit;"> and little fishes, some people have got their whole life on there. Get a grip folks. It's only a pandemic for goodness sake! </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">We WILL get through this and beat it. BoJo has assured us of this. - He still reminds me of Tommy Cooper though with his hand gestures - "Just like that" Could I actually be warming to him?? Oh Lordee.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">He's just jumped off the tub and may have seen me because he's frozen in mid pose. Oh wait, there's a magpie hoping about on the other side of the grass. (I can't call it a lawn yet as it's a right mess from the high winds and rain we had before the world stopped turning.) I think he's watching him. The magpie has decided to move into the arena. He does take his chances the little tinker, but then he's got his wings on his side. Cyril has now moved towards him in a threatening gesture of "It's my garden, bog off and find some toilet rolls for the mistress of the house in case she runs short!" There's the usual quick move by Cyril <span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">across the arena and the magpie flying out of range. I wonder if he will come back with any supplies?</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Lunch time and I just had a yoghurt while I watched the news which is becoming addictive now albeit repetitive. </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">I considered making a list of jobs that desperately need doing but I keep getting sidetracked by emails etc coming in. Oh and FB of course. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">This afternoon I started working my way through a pile of filing that needs to be done and found my book of Poems that I wrote shed loads of years ago. I think I will add one each week to the blogs I do. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">I'm sitting here yet again on my arse wondering what to do for dinner tonight. The weird thing is the only difference between now and my original retirement is that I'm having enforced isolation. The length of days haven't changed in any way, but there just seems to be more time to fill and who knew that there was a movie 24 channel showing movies during the day? I've never been a daytime tv fan and never will be but I found myself channel flipping during the week and surprised myself. There are over 600 channels and I didn't fancy any of it! Mind you, there's no change there.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222;">Decision made... I'm having pork chop mixed veggies and smashed up potato. It will <span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">eleviate the annoyance of being couped up in the house. As soon as that weather improves I'm out in the garden.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Having settled down in front of the tv with a glass of wine I'm chilling and enjoying night time tv. I've made it to the 10pm news without falling asleep so I just might watch it. Oh well I should have known it would be a repeat of the lunchtime news. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">I'm taking Faith Martin and Hillary to bed. I may last at least a couple of chapters before I doze off. Night folks.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><b><u>Day 5 in pokey Friday 20th March 2020</u></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span><span style="background-color: white;">I woke up at 3:05am and debated making a drink but it was cold. I finally got back to sleep somewhere around 5:00am. How do I know? because the last time I looked at my phone it said 04:55 and I don't recall anything after that until I woke up again to daylight. It was 08:16am. The house was lovely and warm and I plodded downstairs in my jim jams and snuggly dressing gown to make a cuppa. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">There was no sign of Cyril squirrel, he must have been long gone, if he actually turned up at all. He gets quite stroppy if I'm not there when he arrives. Did you know they chatter to attract your attention and warn of trouble? Perched on my fence or in the trees, he's woken me up before now in the summer. I guess he thinks it's funny. As soon as I look out of the window, some sixth sense makes him turn to look at me and then he runs off. I've noticed that the canopy on the swing seat has come unscrewed again, so hunt the screw again then.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">I've been totally dossing around today and doing nothing of any interest. Oh I did a bit more of the puzzle which was surprisingly relaxing. I also found the canopy screw and that's now back in place. I wouldn't mind but it's in a sheltered spot for goodness sake. At least the wind has dropped now. Homemade soup is in the crockpot along with anything which was starting to need to be used up. The base was mainly leeks and chillies. Perhaps next time I won't go so mad with the chillies. Wine with a fair few glasses of water last night.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">Exciting news... I've survived the first week with just the weekend to go. I'll soon get the hang of this </span>malarky :)<br /><br />This is the first of my weekly poems. I've only just discovered that I wrote them in 2007. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />TERESA'S ALPHABET SOUP<br />T is for tramlines, time and toes<br />E is for everything and heaven knows<br />R is for rice and rain and rear<br />E is for ebony earth and ear<br />S is for sugar, savoury and success<br />A is for abrasion, absorb and access<br />G is for go, going and Geering<br />E is for elongate, ear and earring<br />E is for enrage and maybe an eel<br />R is for river, rage and a reel<br />I is for indigo, incest and ink<br />N is for nearly, almost the end<br />G is for going just round the bend <span style="font-size: xx-small;">©</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span>https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B00J7HGF4W<br /><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B00J7HGF4W" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B00J7HGF4W</a><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Laters potaters</span> </span>Author T K Geeringhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811208566475939610noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529803977753915593.post-11846291575896849772019-01-19T14:26:00.003+00:002019-01-19T14:26:50.993+00:00Psychedelic Kate <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
Hello my little chickadees and welcome to my New Year Blog. Did you all have a good one? I couldn't wait to get Christmas out of the way and get on to the New Year. Don't get me wrong, I had a wonderful family Christmas but i couldn't wait to get the New Year started, just so that I could work out what day it was.</div>
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So then for your delectation we have the lovely Kate Rigby. Kate is as screwball as me, so why else would I have her on my blog? Mind you she has written more books than me but I'm busy with a reader challenge for the UK Crime Book Club. Every time I start a new book I put a pound in a jar. Who knows, it just might pay for my next dirty week end away. Hah! Just kidding, I'm usually reading or writing come the week ends.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Up you come then Kate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">As you can see from the photo I’ve turned funny colours with the prospect of being held hostage here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>A.</b> In my head mostly. It does have its advantages but it would be nice to headhop every once in a while. As you can see from the photo this also represents that fogginess inside my head at times, bwahahaha.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>A.</b> This could well be the same answer to Number 5. If I give you an excerpt from Lost The Plot (which changes its author name every so often) you will get my drift. (Take note this was conceived nearly 20 years ago so I have many more children since.) Please pardon the swearing but as I’m being held hostage in this cave I may as well earn by punishments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Tee:</b> And there may well be many. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Vignettes of my first six children and a taste of their upbringing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">SPLIT: Intense and serious, from just outside Liverpool. Motto: "Fantasy is reality".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">GRIT: Anarchist with a pink Mohican and violent childhood. Motto: "Let's shock".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">SHIT: A London drug addict. Motto: "Life's a head-fuck".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">DITSY: Reflective and rambling. Motto: "I don't have one, do I?".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">WIT: Multiple personality. Loves sun, sand, sea, fast cars. But caught in a cul-de-sac. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Motto: "Say hi to Madame Two Swords".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">KLIT: The colour of tennis lawns. Triple goddess. Motto: "Change the balls, duck".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">My kids have all been sent out into the world, even GRIT who was hoping for a second flush of success. They could phone me at least, or drop a line to let me know they’ve arrived safely. The silence always makes me nervous. Are they being taken seriously? Is it a full fat silence or an empty silence? A stuck-in-the-backlog sort of silence. Maybe they haven't even met that all-important guy yet: you know, the one who can help them get on in the world. I've known that silence before, I’ve felt hopeful and encouraged by it, but they keep coming back to mum, sure as eggs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But I don't let them sit around at home. You can't. As a mother I've got to boost their morale. So I'll give them a pep talk and send them out into the world again. You mustn't let standards slip. You must keep dressing your kids in new clothes, even though they may not get as far as removing their coats. Even though new clothes cost a pretty penny. Or I might perform a bit more surgery if this is what’s needed. Just a bit of Botox here, a bit of liposuction there, a bit of enhancement, or a new implant. You need to re-invent yourself, I'll say, if you're not making the right impression in the right places. Now off you go again, I'll say, ever the optimist. Well, you have to be, don't you? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Though sometimes I'm ever the pessimist. You're slouching your whole body, KLIT. You’re like the Courier font on my computer. Too bog standard, even a bit hefty. We could go for something more Script. Why can't you be more like Ms Dunmore's children? Or Mr Hornby's? Why can't you meet a nice publisher, marry one? One who'll take care of you and look after your interests, if not for life, then a good many years? (Though you feel a right old-fashioned pillock, coming out with all that, let me tell you) OK a fling then. That'd be better than nothing, kids. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Well, you feel you've failed as a mother, don't you, if your children don't get on in the world. Naturally you want the best for them. But you need to be impossibly perfect in today's world, and my children, like most, have their flaws. They're only human. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">KLIT came home. That P word again. Not enough plot plot plot. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And they want us to write with balls – (but KLIT is full of balls!) - they want us to stand out in a crowded market place and draw attention to ourselves and be distinctive, they want us to be risk-takers, and then what do they do? They follow the herd! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It's not sour grapes, really it isn't. Well, maybe a bit then. Well, a bloody truckload if the truth be known. But everyone's saying what a ridiculous business it is these days, publishing. Entrenched. Concentrating on the big cheeses and celebs and no help for us struggling single mums.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've found a category for each of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>A</b>. Not here. But my mum (who I see regularly) has a rescue cat, Sheba. As you can see from the picture she seems partial to sounds just like me. We always had a cat growing up. My mum is 90 by the way and…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Non-genre! I once wrote a blog called the L Word (L for literary) and another one called the Most Misunderstood Genre, which is why I prefer to use any other name I can think of – like grit lit, or edgy lit, or contemporary or retro lit. Or coming of age. Oh and I have done a bit of non-fiction before. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have been trad published, small pressed published and now indie (or self-published). I think we all like that vote of confidence and self-belief that traditional publishing affords, not to mention all that free marketing and whatnot. Having said that, I hear tell that the lines have significantly blurred between the two since I had my 15 minutes. I must say I do like the control over the finished product you get with self-pubbing too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>A. </b>Mixed. As I say I like being in control of promotion in some ways but it’s a real time sucker, it’s tedious and can be expensive (for paid promotions). I am endlessly grateful though to all the wonderful book bloggers who give of their time freely and take the trouble to post reviews. They are the real unsung heroes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>A.</b> Somewhere in the region of fifteen (excluding short stories). I’m losing count and possibly the will to live ;) Here's one.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Phew! Have I survived intact? Th-thanks for h-having me here, T-tee. It has been most f-f-fun.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Kate: </b>Yes I think so (Does a random check to be sure)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">So there you have it. The lovely Kate Rigby banged to rights. </span><br />
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This week on my blog I have a fellow author that I have known for a considerable time. Ironically she has made herself at home in my cave and not only suggested a few alterations but actually shifted a few bits around !!! </span>I'm gonna get her!!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Right then so I'll just lull her into a false sense of security....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Well, let’s see. She’s a woman of a certain age who was born and bred in the North West of England, and who 18 years ago fled across the border to God’s Own Country (Scotland) to start a new life after chucking in the 9-5 rat race. There life began anew. There she could pursue her dream of being a writer, made new friends (one very special friend in particular </span><span lang="EN-US">♥</span><span lang="EN-US">), involved herself in her new community, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Personality: Jillian has a sarcastic sense of humour, verging on wicked, but also a romantic streak a mile wide and a heart that loves unconditionally - earn her loyalty and it is yours for ever. She hates injustice, loves to learn new things (like Polish), and is practical (they call her the flat pack queen). She is idiot intolerant (particularly orange ones), slow to anger, but can hold a grudge for eternity. She can be introverted to the point of hermit-hood and she writes stories to live vicariously through her characters because they are her way to do/say/visit/experience things/places she can’t in real life. She has eclectic tastes in books, movies and music, lives in baggy sweaters and leggings, has never eaten an oyster and is allergic to kiwi fruit and borage. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b><span lang="EN-US">I live in Aberdeen, NE Scotland, former oil capital of Europe, and I’m proud to do so. I love it here. The part of the city I live in is known as Old Aberdeen with very old granite buildings and cobbled streets, and the house I live under – in a basement flat – is a 200 year old former manse with a beautiful garden. Lovely Seaton Park is close by and across the road from my front gate is St Machar’s cathedral. I’m a mile from the beach in one direction, two or three from the countryside in the other, a mile and a half from the city centre. Being a stone’s throw from the main campus of the University of Aberdeen the area bustles with students from all over the world. So, historic yet very cosmopolitan. Aberdeen is having a bad time at the moment after the oil industry tanked, but it still has some marvellous architecture and history to appreciate and enjoy, even its own dialect (Doric). When it’s dreich, the people are all hunched and murderous looking, like a casting call for Deliverance. Then the sun shines and the city sparkles and faces unfurl and it’s a beautiful place full of beautiful people. I’m never leaving. I can’t. All my characters live here.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span>My household is male dominated, even the dog. Although I have 3 sons, 2 of them live away so there is just the youngest (21) at home. There is another male presence, but we don’t talk about him. I have other family living back in England but I haven’t seen them for over 6 years. My real family members, the ones who matter most, live in my computer. My Facebook friends are as real and as important to me as any flesh and blood body sitting in my living room. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Only Archie, my bad tempered Jack Russell terrier. He’s 15 now, losing his sight, a bit broad in the beam and unsteady on his pins, but he’s happy enough in his own doggy way. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">There’s a lovely cabin I go to just outside of Nairn, about an hour and a half away. It’s called the Studio (because it’s a former artist’s studio) in the grounds of Glenferness House, surrounded by miles of woodland and the river Findhorn outside the door (and 100 ft down a steep slope but I try not to think about that). It has no TV, no phone and no internet. Just birds and deer and sheep and quiet. Absolute bliss. As long as there is clean water, the leccy stays on and nobody comes a’callin’ I’m good.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I do like haggis, with neeps and tatties and onion gravy. My favourite food though is cheese. Like Wallace I love a punchy tangy cheddar. Yum! I also adore chocolate and bananas but as I eat a very low carbohydrate diet as a rule, these are rare and exotic treats. As for (alcoholic) drink, I’ve been dry for a long time. However, if I feel I’m able to handle it I like a (very) small glass of Krupnik Wisniowy which is a cherry flavoured Polish vodka liqueur. My favourite day to day drink is of course coffee, lots and lots of coffee, with the odd cup of tea in between to keep the kettle warm.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I’ve been writing something or other for as long as I can remember. I was pretty precocious when it came to reading and writing. I could do both before I even went to school. At school I read everything the library could throw at me and I also wrote stories, winning a gold star and the English prize for ‘A day in the life of a penny’. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Now I’m an adult I write because…cue a string of well worn clichés... because I can, because it’s a kind of therapy to get down on paper all those things dancing around in my head, to still the voices, because the characters tell me to, because I have to. Sounds silly, sounds trite, sounds simplistic, doesn’t it? But as any writer will tell you, it’s true. Basically, writing is the one thing that stops me from going batshit bonkers!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">What thrills me about writing? Well, not just the blank page and the cursor blinking with potential, but the research that goes before, during and after. Sure there’s the ‘thrill of the chase’ that comes with banging out those initial pages to really get my pulse racing, but the research always brings the biggest challenges…and the biggest reward (</span><span lang="EN-US">♥</span><span lang="EN-US">) Writing ‘the end’ always fills me with both satisfaction and sadness; that someone has read one of my stories and liked it, the ultimate joy. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">What drives me nuts about writing? Well, wanting to write and not being able to. Not only when the well of ideas runs dry and I’m struggling for momentum, but also day to day. The constant bloomin’ interruptions that pull me out of the zone. Have you seen this (insert pathetic meme/video/post from interwebs)? Where’s my socks? Do I have a clean shirt? What’s for tea? Urrrgggghhhhh! Leave me alone! Can’t you see I have a knife in this person’s literary tripes ready to spill them all over the floor (or put them in a pie)? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And when the book is done, there’s the task of getting someone (or hopefully a lot of somebodies) to read the work. Marketing is really hard work, very time consuming and needs to be done just right. I’ll put my hand up. I’m a writer not a salesperson. Writing is easy compared to getting readers and spreading the love. But, it is a necessary evil and I try my best. #sigh<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I really like what you’ve done with the place since you kicked the last victim to the kerb. Kind of homely in a serial killer meets Colin and Justin on crack kind of way. Snug and dark. I live in a basement already so I feel quite at home. Being in solitary means I can finally get some sleep. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The water dribbling down the wall is a nice feature. It pays to stay hydrated. The air freshener leaves a bit to be desired, though. Eau de Vomit if I’m not mistaken. It quite cleared out my sinuses. However, I think I’m allergic to the straw. I seem to have come out in a rash. Or it could be the lice. FYI, the previous occupant seems to have left some bits of him/herself behind. I put them in the corner for the rats.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">All you need is a few cheap fairy lights and a wind chime and it would be perfect.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Oh, that’s a tough one. I don’t like to travel (I get terrible motion sickness) and I enjoy my own company, so my ideal all expenses paid holiday would be if someone would pay me to either stay at home with my laptop and my DVDs and books, a supply of cheese, chocolate and coffee, with a padlock the size of an Orc’s fist fitted to the door to keep interlopers out, or spend a couple of months by myself up at the Studio in perfect isolation. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">That being said I did enjoy my first solo trip to Shetland last year (on a boat!) and I rather fancy going again to see the Up Helly Aa fire festival next January. Also Poland looks friendly. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">So with the right tour guides, smooth seas and enough Avomine I could be persuaded to change my mind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I’m a great supporter of military charity Combat Stress. Royalties from In the Garden of Stones go there. Also royalties from Offshore go to Pound for Piper who maintain the Piper Alpha Memorial monument, and monies from On The Fly go to Fishing for Heroes. I donate a lot of clothing, toiletries etc to the local Cyrenians who help the homeless, and also support Social Bite which is a café run for and by homeless people. I volunteered for a while at the local Forces Support shop until it closed down. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> I tried painting in the Bob Ross fashion for a while and that was quite successful, but oil paints are expensive and they smell really bad so I had to give that up. The whole house stank of linseed. Essence of roses compared to the pong in this place though. I think your drain hole is bunged up. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Bees. Wasps. Mosquitoes. Only joking. Let’s see. A book sale. A (good) review. A royalty cheque. They give me a real boost. An exam success for my son. Managing to conjugate an irregular Polish verb. Completing a really complicated crochet/knitting project and it looks great. That’ll do it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">You know that saying, little things please little minds? Well that’s me all over.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Whatever takes me at the moment. I’ve dipped my toe in various genres - romance, thriller, psychological, paranormal, horror, a saucy romp (ooh matron!) to varying degrees of success. I’ve avoided historical, steampunk and science fiction because I consider them ‘specialist’ and as I don’t know anything about those genres and they have never pushed my buttons, I’ll stick with the ones that I can really get my teeth into so to speak. I don’t have a favourite, but if pushed I would tend towards crime and/or horror. That way I can take out all my murderous urges without actually harming anyone (even if they deserve it) <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I also write under pseudonyms. It was kind of an experiment. I wanted to see if a woman with a genteel name like Lucy Pepperdine could be taken seriously writing horror, and I also used a gender neutral name, Dale Henderson, for a grittier drama to see if it made any difference. The jury is still out.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Too right they do! Cheeky devils. Always wanting to trot off and do something/somebody. Then we have to sit down and have a serious chat about who’s actually in charge of this story. And more often than not it turns out they are. So I let them have their way and if it goes wrong give them the old ‘told you so’, then we try it my way. Usually though, they are right and I am relegated to mere story relater rather than creator.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">However, some characters have taken over not only the story but ME, the person. Nathaniel made me fall in love with him, as did Adam and Hamish, but Henry…oh my beloved. Based on a real person, he captured my heart completely. How do I deal with it? I love them right back of course, Henry most of all.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Plenty. Out of town, when I need fresh air and exercise I have a stroll through Seaton Park. If I have plenty of time I’ll walk out to the beach and along the boulevard. Quite often I find myself down at the harbour watching the ships coming in and out. It’s a habit of mine to watch the Northlink ferry leave every day and carry my best wishes to my friend in Shetland. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I don’t have a particular favourite place IN town but if I’m feeling peoply and it’s a nice sunny day I’ll take a coffee and a book and sit under a tree in Union Terrace Gardens and read and people watch, often accompanied by the skirl of a piper.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, if you’re willing to insert the tube and have a 55 gallon drum to hand I can donate a few kilos of spare body fat. You can melt it down like whale blubber, stick a wick in it and use it to light the place. It might be a bit smelly but it’ll save a shilling in the meter. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I have two WIPs on the go at the moment which have been sadly neglected. Both are former NaNoWriMo projects – Stitch Bitch Kill (for which the lovely Poppet has already designed me a fabulous cover), and O.I.Hell which is awaiting some more research. I switch between them as the mood takes me or a good idea pops up. It’s slow going, but I’ll get there….eventually. Something about Rome and a day… I doubt they will see the light of a publishing day before 2020, but writing keeps me from walking the streets, so it’s all good.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Thank you for having me in your cave, Tee. It’s been quite the experience. These festering boils are coming along a treat. Look at the head on that one. Look at it throbbing. Any chance of some antibiotics? Or a sharp stick?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Tee: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">Er.... No of course not! What makes you think I'm nice. Oh wait, you think because I made nice comments about your photos earlier I'm now mellowing. Hah no chance doll face. In fact take that, and that....<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Jillian: </b>Arrrrggghhh that electric probe really hurt Tee...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Book links as Dale Henderson</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Coming Clean </span></div>
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Author T K Geeringhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811208566475939610noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529803977753915593.post-73853402736091803312018-11-10T11:06:00.001+00:002018-11-11T14:49:43.152+00:00And then there's megalodon sharksWell my little chickadees how are you all? I'm not really interested I just felt I ought to ask. Don't think I can't see you with your fingers sticking up at the back.<br />
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From time to time in the past, I have interviewed film stars and film directors and that sets the scene for my guest in the cave this week. No, he's not Paul Rudd the film star, he's the author and a friend of mine.<br />
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I'm going to introduce a new instrument of torture by the way that I picked it up when I visited a prison in the States (as you do) I must admit I had a hell of a time getting it shipped over. It cost me a fortune so I hope he likes it. It's a bit old fashioned but it works a treat. Well put it this way I certainly get the victims attention when their mind wanders.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">You're inside a shark's mouth, I should have expected something like that. So then, w<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;">elcome to my 5 star state of the art, victim cave. It has a certain ambience don’t you think?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"> </span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ambience! I’m more worried about the chair you’re telling me to sit in. What’s with all the straps and constraints? </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just trying to make you feel at home, Paul! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well, in that case, Tee. Hook me up buttercup!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">My name is Paul Rudd. And, before you ask, I have never met Captain America, and had nothing to do with that incident in Berlin! <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have been with my wonderful partner for 18 years, the mother to my two beautiful children, Alyssa (9) and Lewis (7). We live in Essex. I’ve been writing for the best part of 11 years. I’m an avid Liverpool fan, I love movies and music.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Q So you’ve been writing books for quite a while now Paul; tell me about them and what made you choose the horror of sharks. Oh wait, I bet you saw Jaws? Go on admit to it !</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now it makes sense why I am strapped to this leather chair, and plugged up to all of these wires. You’re reading my mind! <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’ve written six books and added some short stories to a couple of anthologies. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">With regards to Sharc, it is the adage… <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I watched the movie Jaws…” <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">So, from the age of eight, or nine, I had three barrels in me (thanks Quint!). It just took me twenty five years to realise why the barrels were still in me. The movie is what hooked me, but I decided to write about the Megalodon because of one book - Meg. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“But that’s like a whole other century!” <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">MEG was awesome! Aside from the Lord of the Rings, the Meg was the only other book that made me think, wow! And the best thing is, after twenty odd years, this summer it was brought to the big screen, with Jason Statham, and the movie was awesome. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s basically Escape from New York, mixed with The Warriors, and a s*** storm that runs rampant across London. Ahhhhh, what’s with the electric shock… <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Tee – I don’t like swearing in my cave. Unless you want to end up as one of the rotting corpses, I suggest you not swear again. I have my standards to keep up.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well that explains the smell! Sure thing, Tee, sorry about that. Where was I? Oh yeah, London Warriors. It’s my favourite book that I’ve written so far and the first in a proposed trilogy.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><i>Ahhhhh that actually brought tears to my eyes Tee.</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Watching movies! It is a great way to unwind, and research for books. I like to take onboard how the cinematic universe is evolving, and how my stories can evolve at the same time - (at least that’s what I tell the Missus). <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Twenty years ago you only had a few blockbusters out a year. Nowadays there are so many films released it is hard to keep track of them all, so I merely stick to the ones I know I’m gonna like. Now and again you come across a few surprises, which is always nice.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">A nice cuppa! And I love Spag bol, love it.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ah, my partner in crime! As you already know Tee, Reggie is a top, top man. We’ve know each other as long as you and I have been friends. The Welsh Wonder is always positive about life, he plays the drums a bit too, and he is an excellent author, I love his stories, the realism, (he paid me to say this by the way. The cheque is in the post, apparently).<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Tee - I </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">wouldn't</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;"> hold your breath sunshine. I've been friends with the little Welsh lamb chop as long as you have.</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ravenous Roadkill is our little side project. As most of our author group are aware, we’ve all been a part of a publishing house that has had to close down at one time or another. It’s unfortunate for everybody when that happens. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Reggie and I decided to open Ravenous Roadkill to keep our dream alive. It’s a small project, just a few paperbacks, and our audiobooks. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Self-publishing is difficult to juggle. I find the promotion hard to keep on top of. I honestly think if I had the time to continually promote Ravenous Roadkill’s books, our sales would increase significantly. Reg and I have both written some cracking stories, it’s just getting the public to realise that we’re not half bad at this writing malarkey.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">No! Not that type of collector. I’m a barristers’ clerk, and I chase money for my members of chambers. Kerching! Wait, have you got any air freshener? It’s kicking up a bit in here.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“there he goes again with this other century BS”. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">One day I found out that I am pretty good at my job, so I kept going. One day it will pay the bills!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’d love to visit Hawaii. It looks like a fascinating place to visit. Sharc is based off the Hawaii coastline, so I’d love to visit what inspired me to use the area in my book. Plus Jurassic Park was filmed there and apparently there is a game called Jumanji that you can play when you visit. If you look up Nigel Billingsley, he’s happy to help you out, and the game looks fun. Just watch out for those Hippos!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’ll admit, I’m a difficult sod, and a fussy f***** … ahhhh there you go again with the shocks! I’m also a hands’ on kind of guy and my dear friend, Poppet, always has a task when it comes to putting my covers together. She always tells me it’s a challenge, and she is a smashing cover designer. I can’t fault any of them. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Frankenshark! Wait, are you laughing at me! Yep, I’ve gone down the Asylum route of dodgy shark book titles, but I couldn’t think of anything better to describe the story. I’m about ¾ of the way through, and I hope to have it finished by the end of the year. It’s a crazy story but will be so cool when it comes together. The cover looks wicked. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">London Warriors 2, that’s not the final name. It gets dark, bloody and even more f***** up than the first book. The first book was such a good story I had to carry it on. If it does well I’ll do a final part.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Maybe Sharc 3! I’ve started it, so I may as well finish it. I just need the time, and the right story for it to continue.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">That’s a tough one. With Meg already out there, I think Sharc would be left dead in the water to be honest. It’s a shame but, if we’re talking a Sky One mini-series, I think it would definitely work. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">There are quite a few main characters in the Sharc saga but I’d go with the following.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Morgan Read is British, so perhaps James McAvoy, or Andrew Lincoln. They would both smash it.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The second lead female character is Kimberley Clarke. She’s an expert diver, who takes no ****. The part is made for Lili Simmons. I’ve been a massive fan since she starred in Banshee. She’s been in Hawaii Five-O, True Detective, and the Purge Series. She’s awesome and she would rock the part, I know it.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now if you asked me about London Warriors, and the entire ensemble of anti-heroes, that would be another story. It would be the expendables, meets Lord of the Rings, with enough machismo to scare even the 80’s action movies stars.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Author T K Geeringhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811208566475939610noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529803977753915593.post-44138260949624336982018-11-01T12:09:00.003+00:002018-11-01T12:18:12.154+00:00The Fifth and moreHello my little chickadees<br />
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Well it's been a while but I've discovered another new kid on the block who happens to be a very good writer in my opinion. I've read her book and throughly enjoyed it. I managed to get her into the cave under false pretences. She was quite compliant though when I mentioned the word interview so I hung her from the manacles and you know how the rest works.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times roman";">Hello Karley and thank you for coming. How do you like my victims cave? Personally I’m loving the ambience of victims remains scattered about the floor. It adds that bit of je ne sais quoi don’t you think? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";">"It stinks in here of iron and rotten meat. I think I'm going to be sick!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";">"Oh hush child it grows on you after a while.</span><span style="font-family: "times roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times roman";">Lets just get you attached to the manacles at the back of the cave. It’s nice and quiet there. Once you’ve decided to answer my questions then I’ll feed and water you. Here’s the list. Your arms will soon stretch enough to reach the <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times roman";">questionnaire. </span><span style="font-family: "times roman";">Right then I’m off to find my next victim. Scream when you’re done. I won’t hear you but I’ll probably check on you from time to time."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";">"If the only way to get back home is to answer your questions then so be it!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";">I'm Karley Rawlingson and </span><span style="font-family: "times roman";">I grew up in Ashford, Kent but I've lived in Upminster, Essex for the last twelve years. Upminster is a lovely place to live and I feel very lucky to say it’s my home. I often feel, I have the best of both worlds. Upminster is the last stop on the district line which means it’s only a quick train ride into London if, I want to see a show or do some shopping. Then on the other hand, woods, grasslands and beautiful countryside is in my back yard.</span><span style="font-family: "times roman";"> </span></div>
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<b style="font-family: "times roman";">A </b><span style="font-family: "times roman";">I met my husband Tony when I was sixteen and we have been together for seventeen years. We married in July 2011 and have two beautiful children. Tjay is fourteen and Demi is twelve. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";">I often wonder how I got gifted with such a wonder life. Tony is a hard worker and my rock. He has always been my biggest supporter and encouraged me to follow my dreams. Both my children are beautiful inside and out, even if I am biased. Tjay is a typical teenager, he loves hanging out with his friends, playing on his computer and food! He likes to play the piano and is currently studying for his grade one exam. Tjay has a fantastic work ethic and often goes to work with his dad to earn some extra cash. Demi is equally hard working but all of her passion goes into dancing. Demi dances at least three times a week and it has given her, not only confidence but an amazing group of friends. Demi loves school and has a joy for life. Her smile is infectious and I love that she is pretty much willing to give anything a try. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";"><b>A </b>I have two cats; Bumblebee and Rosie. Both are black but Bumblebee has white patches on his feet that look like he has little socks on. They are brother and sister and are nine years old. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";">I also have a dog; Ralph and three fish in the pond, in the garden. There were more but unfortunately, we had a pump malfunction and quite a few died. Ralph is a Jackapoo and my shadow. I fell in love with him the moment I saw him and can honestly say I think he feels the same. On the day we went to meet the breeder and pick a puppy, </span><span style="font-family: "times roman";">he saw me, and started</span><span style="font-family: "times roman";"> howling this tiny-squeaky-little howl as if to say “Hi Mum”. He was the only one to make any noise and tried getting out of his cage. I knew then and there he was coming home with us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";"><b>A </b>Omg why are you asking me about food and drink, when you haven't given me anything to eat in days. I swear, I can almost smell the coffee. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";">* Cries out for help *<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";">Hovering outside by now Tee enters and cracks the whip against Karley’s manacles. “Stop whinging that won’t get you food.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";"><b>A </b>Okay. My favourite drink is a toffee latte with cream and toffee sauce. I love food and I'm willing to give most things a try at least once. My favourite dinner at the moment is grilled chicken, couscous and a tomato, cucumber, spring onion and crabstick salad with balsamic vinegar glaze. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";">“Here chew on this rotten finger. Oh wait you can't you're strung up. Never mind, get over it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";"><b>A </b>I've wanted to write for a long time but never had the confidence. I left school without finishing and had no G.C.S.E’s. Instead I focused on hairdressing. Then I met Tony, moved and got a job in a clothes shop. When Tjay started primary school, I went back to college to study, and gained qualifications in level 3 hairdressing and a B in English and maths. However, no matter how hard I tried and for all the hard work I'd put in at college, something was missing. </span><span style="font-family: "times roman";">A few years later whilst on holiday, I spoke to Tony about my fears. He told me that he would support me in whatever I wanted to do as long as I was happy. It still took me a while to actually figure it out. One night I dreamt of someone called Sadie, and heard her calling to me, telling me her story. The following day I picked up a pen... I haven't looked back since.</span><span style="font-family: "times roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times roman";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";"><b>A </b>I try to be but working from home with two children, a husband and a number of animals can be difficult. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";"><b>A </b>Science fiction, Fantasy <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";"><b>A </b>A normal weekday is usually quite chilled. Everyone is up and out the door by 8.30am, leaving just the animals and me. I talk to my sister-in-law until 9 then have some breakfast. I will then do some writing unless I have a hair-client (I love writing but it doesn’t pay the bills). I do take time to speak to my Nan every day; she lives on her own and I hate the thought of her being lonely. Kids are home by 4.30pm and Tony is back by 6-7pm. Dinner, bath and if we have time, maybe a little board game with the kids before bed. Ready to do it all again tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";"><b>A </b>Its got to be watching a movie, reading a book or goofing about with the kids.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";"><b>A </b>The Fifth is a sci-fi, fantasy book. It is about a girl called Sadie McNeil and the end of the world, as we know it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";"><b>A </b>Self-publishing is hard and of course, I would love a publisher to pick me up and help, in my journey to become a successful author. But promoting is harder and definitely a challenge. I have never been one for social media and my son is far more computer literate than I am. So, I’ve had to teach myself a lot of new things, but I'm getting there. Facebook, Instagram and Amazon (@KDRawlingson) are great platforms to use but again I'm still working at getting the best out of them. I have designed a website</span><span style="font-family: "times roman";"><a href="https://karleyrawlingson.wixsite.com/kdrawlingson" target="_blank"> </a></span> https://karleyrawlingson.wixsite.com/kdrawlingson</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";"><b>A </b>Yes, the next book is due out next year and is called Powers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";"><i> </i><b>A</b><i>“Legend has it that the world was created in 7 days. I don`t know if that`s true or not but what I do know is that it only took 7 days for everything to go to shit and the world to end as we know it!” </i></span><span style="font-family: "times roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";">Born into poverty, controlled by drug-fuelled parents, Sadie McNeil has had a hard life. On the cusp of adulthood, tragedy strikes, leaving both Sadie and her older brother Sol orphaned. When Sol moves thousands of miles away for a job offer, alone and miserable Sadie believes this is the lowest life will ever get. On a rare night out celebrating her eighteenth birthday everything changes, and in the blink of an eye, she meets Ryan. He's everything she's not. In fact he’s her polar opposite. And everything she didn’t know she was looking for.</span><span style="font-family: "times roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";">For Seven long years, things could not be more perfect for Sadie or more normal. </span><span style="font-family: "times roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";">When an unprecedented earthquake happens halfway across the world, Sadie believes it to be nothing more than Mother Nature at its worst. Bad yes, but something the world could recover from.</span><span style="font-family: "times roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";">However, forces far bigger than she could ever imagine are at play and unbeknown to her she is stuck right in the middle… </span><span style="font-family: "times roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";"><b>A </b>Writing has become more than just a hobby to me, it has become a love. The Fifth (Sadie’s story) is real and honest. It is dark at times and is fraught with hardship. Can Sadie get through it? How would you handle it if, it was you? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";">I’d like to say thanks to Tee for the interview but I'm hungry and thirsty. My wrists are red raw from dangling so I will just say… Please can I go home now? The Darkness Is Coming...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";">"My god, there are so many wimps out there…"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";">Sighs dramatically whilst undoing the manacles, allowing her to drop to floor on the rotten bits of flesh…. Offers a rancid finger to chew on to stave off her hunger. It's refused as Karley holds hand over mouth and hurtles outside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";">"Some people are never grateful and you can clear that mess up before you go, I have a cleanliness routine that I maintain at the entrance. What ever would my next victim think?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times roman";">http://amzn.eu/d/feA1qk1<a href="http://amzn.eu/d/feA1qk1" target="_blank">http://amzn.eu/d/feA1qk1</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Author T K Geeringhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811208566475939610noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529803977753915593.post-71071274474310694642018-07-12T13:28:00.000+01:002018-07-12T13:28:38.188+01:00The Long legged potential lover from Knaresborough<div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hello my little chickadees. Well footies underway and we play Croatia tonight. My trotters are crossed for them.</span></span></div>
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<i><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hiya Charlie, so tell me about </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">yourself and will you stand up straight woman. Forget the broken leg it'll mend.</span></b></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">About me then, I'm elegant, witty, pure of heart, long of limb... Well before the left one was broken by you. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I'm actually a rather rotund 37 year-old mother of two. I'm a writer, of all forms, though in particular speeches at the moment, and I've been single for six years, so I spend a lot of time muttering to myself. I am torn between wanting a boyfriend and enjoying the wardrobe space.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A stunning town called Knaresborough in North Yorkshire, England. Like all Yorkshire folk, I'm fiercely proud of my county - if we were a country we'd have come eighth in the medal table of the most recent Olympics! Famous Yorkshiremen (and women) include The Brontes, Alan Bennet, WH Auden, Dame Judi Dench, Sir Patrick Stewart, Jeremy Clarkson, The Beautiful South, Def Leppard, Ed Sheeran, Kaiser Chiefs.... I could go on.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Knaresborough is particularly famous for our (long dead) prophetess Mother Shipton. Kind of an English Notradamus. She predicted that when Low Bridge falls down for a third time, the world will end. So far it's fallen down twice. I'm always super careful when I'm driving over it.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I have a small, white psychopathic cat called Deborah. Her favourite game is lying on a low wall by my house, trying to entice victims with her beauty. If she was human, she'd be in a maximum security facility by now, strapped to an upright trolley with a bite-shield on. Luckily for her, she isn't; so she's lying at the end of my bed working out which of my neighbours to bite next.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I wrote a novel called Simon's Choice which was very well received, mostly in the States where it was first published. It tells the tale of a doctor whose seven year-old daughter is dying of leukemia. When one evening she asks him 'Daddy, who will live with me in Heaven?" he answers in a moment of grief and confusion that he will 'go with her'. The novel explores grief, the stresses of grief on a marriage and the concept of death in different religions. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Whilst I appreciate it doesn't sound like a laugh a minute, I'm told it has its funny moments! I wrote the novel in only three months, whilst my baby son was strapped to a bouncy seat next to me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">It is out of print now, sadly, but you can still purchase a Kindle copy and help me pay my rent.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The best way to keep me quiet is to put a platter of shellfish in front of me. I've been eating mussels and oysters since I was four. Potential suitors should know that I'll do anything for a lobster. I am also a fan of good sushi and will rugby tackle people to get at a cheese board. Readers will not be amazed to hear that I've put on a lot of weight recently. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">My parents divorced when I was only seven, but an enduring memory is that their marriage was at its happiest when they were cooking - usually strange and exciting things. I remember a squid's ink sack being removed by my giggling (and probably quite tipsy) parents in a bath. I also have memories of a duck being dried with a hair dryer. (The duck was dead and plucked - they were trying to replicate the Peking duck pancakes they liked in the Chinese restaurant - not give it a blow dry.) As such, food has always been an enormous source of romance and excitement to me. I think the only thing I've never tried is probably tripe - I don't have any plans to, but never say never.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">As a single parent I seem to spend much of my time picking other people's stuff up. My son is autistic, with a little known form called Pathological Demand Avoidance and so both myself and my daughter have to have diplomatic skills comparable to the United Nations. They should get me to negotiate Brexit, it would be nothing in comparison to convincing my son to brush his teeth.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It was my mother's idea actually. I wrote some speeches when I was younger, one memorably for an important event in the construction industry and afterwards delegates were coming up to me asking for a copy so that they could share it with their employees. As my son is disabled it's difficult for me to have a 'proper' job, and so 'My Standing Ovation' was born. It's in its infancy.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">My days are rather boring. Two hours negotiating with my son regarding clothes/breakfast/getting into the taxi to his school. Then a flurry of housework and shopping, a bit of writing if I have a job on, and then back to the endless demands of food and 'she hit me', 'he spat on me' when the children are back. My son only goes to school for 3 hours, so I don't get a lot of time to myself. My days tend to end with wine and crime documentaries. I have a concerning fascination in murderers - though it does actually stem from an interest in psychology and not my inner-psychopath.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Writing on a team - preferably comedy. </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">As everyone knows, the problem with writing is that it is for the most part lonely and a rollercoaster of exhilarating highs (when you suddenly resolve that plot issue, or you write a killer bit of prose, you land a publisher or get a great review) and crushing lows (rejection, writers block - crashes in self-belief - so being able to bounce ideas off each other and share the elations and commiserations would be the ultimate dream. I adore the show Episodes, starring Matt le Blanc, Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Grieg about a married pair of British sit-com writers living out in LA, battling the faux smiles and backstabbing of the TV Studios. It must be wonderful to have a writing partner. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">My garden is really just a patio, but it's </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">important to me because we were made homeless a few years ago and for about a year, I had no idea where we were going to end up. It was an horrific time and I feel very passionately about the housing crisis in the UK. I'd got to the point where I was looking at paying £850 a month rent for the most basic 3-bedroom house in my area - on one part time salary. I'm now a council tenant and feel extremely lucky to have a roof over my head. The time I spend in my garden is a nod to my luck - I could be in a high-rise flat, so the patio deserves my love and attention.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I think I should probably say that I'd take my children, but as I'm typing this during the difficult bedtime period and one of them has just yelled at me and the other has spilled fake-tan all over her fairly new pale bedroom carpet, they're out. You blew it kids. You can have imaginary babysitters for this imaginary holiday.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I'd like to take my mother on a trip around the Eastern and Southern coast of the USA. I'm fascinated in areas full of history and diverse cultures, so I'd like to start in Virginia and drive round in a wonderful car through South Carolina, Georgia (Savannah), Lousiana - I'm particularly keen to drive up the old River Road from New Orleans to Baton Rouge and visit the plantation mansions there. There's a property called Nottoway, and it's my biggest dream to spend a night there.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Well it would have to include a stay at Nottoway. But I'd also love to visit a film set in LA, and I'd love to go to Japan. Do you have some kind of a time machine? There's a lot I need to fit in. Also, if I was invisible, I'd go to The White House and listen in to what Trump is really saying. </span></span></div>
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Author T K Geeringhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811208566475939610noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529803977753915593.post-66118456847570494372018-06-30T09:13:00.000+01:002018-06-30T09:13:28.098+01:00Take a gardening rock chicken and what do you getHello my little chickadees, how are you? Well with all this hot weather, my victim's cave is smelling very ripe at the moment... Lovely jubbly.<br />
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On my blog this week I have a green fingered gardener going by the name of Helen Patrica. Wait until you see her produce. I want a bit of it.<br />
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Here she is then, and also with her newly born grandson Jackson. Welcome Helen Patrica and will you please stop whining for pity sake. It's only a headless corpse in the corner. Oh that screaming you mean? That's just a recording of the previous occupants screams. Tsk.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times roman";">Hi Tee, If I answer your questions can I have some water please and see some daylight...It's ever so dark in here and it's a bit smelly...Smells like iron...so I'm guessing that's blood? Eeeeeek ! *Shudders!*</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times roman";">Ok then about me! Where do I start? At the beginning I guess! I was born in the 60's when the Beatles were in their prime and TV's were still in black and white. I like to think I was named after Helen Shapiro, and I have the same middle name that my mum had, 'Patricia'. My youngest granddaughter also has Patricia as her middle name. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times roman";">I was the eldest of three girls and I reckon I was pretty bossy looking back.... When we were little we used to enjoy playing gymnastics, using the wooden arms of the sofa as the beam, much to mum's annoyance but she'd let us carry on anyway.. I grew up in a large village called Abbots Langley, in Hertfordshire. All my school days were spent in 'Abbots'. I lived at home until I was 19, and these days I have two grown up children, and four grandchildren, with little baby Jackson being just 3 days old. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times roman";">I have lots of different interests, do not follow fashion at all, and am happiest when my hands are in the soil and planting things. I have some tattoos and some piercings, love wearing my hair in pigtails, and probably always will. These days I'm more Rock Chicken than Rock Chick! I never wear false nails, as I reckon you can't see what dirt is hiding under them... My toenails are always naiI-varnished black though! Maybe that's just as well as I always walk around the garden barefoot!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times roman";"> I really do love a good swear! It's not very ladylike I know. Not sure why but I find it very therapeutic! OUCH !!! What's that digging me in the ribs! I haven't sworn yet! In life I nearly always root for the underdog, hate unfairness and bullies, and do not have any religious beliefs...I'm more Earth Mother come protector of the fairies type of gal! I love all things mystical. Detest gnomes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times roman";">I've a very eclectic taste in music, literature and films, and do enjoy going to </span><span style="font-family: "times roman";">see bands and drinking pints of cider (my favourite tipple). I love making people laugh, although often they're laughing at things that have happened to me! If I see work friends are having a rough time I will do what I can to get them smiling. A lovely friend of mine was feeling low one day, so I went on the women's gynae ward next door and asked for a pair of 'netty knickers' which I decorated, calling them her new happy pants! It worked, and she put them on over the top of her work trousers for a giggle.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times roman";">For the last 16 years I have been back in Watford, although I spent several years living in Edgware, Middlesex (in the London suburbs), and then Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire until 2001.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times roman";">Yes I do ! I have a black and white cat called Sindy. I've had 2 cats before her and several dogs. When my daughter was very young I had a lurcher that she called Birdie! My last woofit was called Lulu. She was a dark brindle staffy and absolutely adored us all, and we loved her too. Lulu </span><span style="font-family: "times roman";">was affectionately called “Runs with no brain”, as she was so soppy! </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times roman";">She sadly got run over on a main road near where I live, just before her ninth birthday. That was 5 years ago. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times roman";">When my children were growing up they were allowed to have all sorts of strange 'pets'. I think they worked their way through a lot of the animal kingdom ...we had escaping stick insects, flying stick insects, a praying mantis called Marilyn Mantis, a python called Elvis, giant land snails, mice, rats, spiders, fish, bearded dragons, snakes and several birds. I'm sure there's much I've forgotten. It's the old brain you know!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times roman";">My name is Helen and I am a gardenaholic! I love being creative and gardening is my way to do that. I like to plant to encourage wildlife. I also have a large allotment that I can walk to in less that 10 minutes. I take a short cut through a nearby cemetery to get to my lottie, and have to keep my eye on the time, as the gates to the graveyard lock at different times of the year. I've almost got locked in on a couple of occasions as I get carried away when I'm up there. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times roman";">I love savoury foods more than sweet. I love Indian food the best, but also love a good old-fashioned Sunday roast with all the trimmings! Roast beef, Yorkshire puds, roast potatoes etc ...you get the picture! What I love about gardening and having the lottie is that often the veg I eat will be what I've grown myself, and it tastes so much nicer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times roman";">It could be anything, often nothing in particular. I will be looking at a bee, or see something I need to potter about with. I will be enjoying the sun on my skin and i will be contented.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times roman";">Any, depending on what I'm into at the time. It could be fiction or non fiction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times roman";">Without sounding a bit twee, being a mum and grandmother, and overcoming all the crud that life has thrown my way and over-coming it and being stronger and happier. I was very proud of co-writing a chapter in an academic book about 4 years ago. It was great being asked for my contribution. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times roman";">Loads of failures, but a lot of it is out of our control, like the weather and bugs! Grow for the conditions you have and grow what you love to eat, and most of all don't let it be a chore. Gardening should be fun. if it's too tough, make it easier, and sit back and enjoy the fresh air and being outside. I have arthritis in my hands, and although it can be painful at times, I think keeping them active does help with strength in the joints and flexibility. A couple of my fingers look gnarly though. One of my index fingers doesn't point straight! Bit embarrassing really but it is what it is! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times roman";">Think, enjoy the calm. I rarely watch tv, unless it's Gardeners' World of course, or maybe Vikings, or Countryfile. Sometimes I watch a film, usually an old one I love, or maybe the news, but these days I catch the news on the internet, and listen to music on the radio or on cds. No pop! Errggh!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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So there you have it my little ones and so do I because I managed to do a deal with Helen's wine making. I'd better get her down or I won't get the wine.</div>
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I wonder who I'm torturing next? Ah yes...!</div>
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I'm really excited about this visitor to my cave. We have known each other for quite a few years and we have the same gifts. Consequently we sat in my end of the cave away from all the blood and gore enjoying a sophisticated chat over tiffin and cucumber sandwiches with crusts cut off naturally. I can do things proper you know. Oh yes indeede....<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Hi! Thanks for interviewing me Tee! I’m Cheryl, and I am married to Reg, a children’s entertainer, and I have one son called Miran and we have a dog :)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Where in the world do you live.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> </span></b></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">I live in Herne Bay in Kent, England.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">You are a renowned psychic/medium. Can you explain simply what are the differences between a psychic; a medium; a </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">clairaudient; a clairvoyant etc. How does it work?</span></b></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Oooh interesting question. How I see it is: a psychic is someone who works with energies, like auras and stuff, a medium works with spirit - those who’ve passed over, creating a link much like a telephone exchange :) Clairaudient means to hear spirit. (Audio being sound) Clairvoyant- can see spirit (voyant - from the French “voyer” Clairsentience - “feeling” spirit, and gaining information this way. Claircognizance -“ knowing” the information from spirit without being told. I’m both clairvoyant and clairaudient, with a touch of everything else:)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">My favourite drink at the moment is vanilla tea. It’s a hot drink and caffeine free, yet I’m addicted to it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">My days are all different, the only thing that happens every single day is tarot card of the day. I pull one card, and that’s put in my group on Facebook, so everyone can see the “flavour “ of their day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">My favourite pet is my current pet. Oscar, who is 9, runs closely in joint first simply because of his nature. When I got ill he sat with me for months while I was getting better. He is always there and I find him a great comfort.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">I’d go to Sidari, in Corfu. I absolutely adore it there and I’d spend a very long time there if someone else wanted to pay, lol! Or Rome, so I can see the Sistine chapel and roman ruins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">I do work with crystals but mainly on myself. I find them very effective and useful. They’ve helped me on many occasions and my favourite is Tourmaline:) I don’t work on others because I can’t afford the course:)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><i><b>At the start of your day, do you ever get premonitions of what might happen that day<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">I sometimes get a feeling like - yesterday I felt we would get some news, and an appointment letter came in the post. Apart from that I sometimes get an unnerving feeling and it usually turns out to be some world news, rarely personal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><i><b>When did you first realise you were psychic. How did it happen</b></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">I was born this way. The first time I realised that other people couldn’t see what I could see was when I was at school and mentioned someone that others couldn’t see. Also, I was in science class and I “saw” an Earth quake in Japan that had happened. When I got home it was being reported on the evening news. After that people were a bit wary of me. I’ve seen spirit since I was a child. I was very much a loner, although I had friends I didn’t have many. I have a brother, but I actually spent a lot of time with spirit children. I didn’t realise they were spirit children at the time, I was too young! They were friends:)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><i><b>I know that you are an ordained member of the church. Would you like to tell us how that fulfills you</b></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">I am a Spiritulist minister. I mostly do funerals and christenings, though I’ve done 1wedding. I find funerals an honour to do. It’s the last thing people will remember about their loved one, and I try to make it as personal as possible. I try to bring the flavour of their loved one forward. It fulfills me by allowing me to be of great service. It’s such an honour to be asked. Although it’s obviously a very sad occasion, celebrating someone’s life and achievements is truly a gift to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><i><b>What do you do for fun and do you get the chance very often</b></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">For fun, my guilty pleasure is you tube and studying. Yes, I have no life, lol!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><i><b>How successful do you feel your website is and do you think you could enhance it in any way.</b></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">I think my website could probably do with a spruce up, but it’s very successful. I’ve had over 44,000 visitors and of course it keeps me employed, doing tarot readings and phone readings:)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><i><b>How do tarot cards affect your day to day life and how much faith do you have in them<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">I have immense faith in the tarot. I often consult them personally for things that are going on in my life, and I get much advice from them. The card of the day effects my life in that I know what shape my day could be in :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><i><b>Being very spiritual do you have a favourite arch angel that you work with or do they all help you<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">They all help me, but I have a special spot for any angels in general because they make me feel so loved, and are such a beautiful vibration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><i><b>Can you tell us about your spirit guides. Do they come in at will or do you have to summon them<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">My main guide is a chap called Atticus. I’ve no idea of his background except that he seems very wise and grounded. He has lots of patience and has a dry sense of humour and says what he thinks. I have accidentally quoted him literally and got into trouble because I didn’t think first! I just repeated Atticus’s observations!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><i><b>What is your favourite day of the week and what do you do</b></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Sunday, although I sometimes work in the evenings serving my local spiritualist church. Usually, I get to sit down and just rest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><i><b>When you’re chilling at home what are your favourite clothes to relax in<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">I wear dresses often. I can no longer wear jeans due to an operation, and I sorely miss them, but dresses are comfortable and I have many, all very brightly coloured (I’m not known for my subtlety or dress sense)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><i><b>Your favourite genre to read or do you just select randomly.</b></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">I tend to read mostly factual or self help books. When I do read fiction it’s usually fantasy, and I do select that based on the blurb of the back cover. And yes, I read paper books, though I’m hopefully going paperless.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Links : </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman";"><a href="http://www.cherylturtlemoon.co.uk/" target="_blank">www.cherylturtlemoon.co.uk</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/entertainerregemental/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/entertainerregemental/</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">What an interesting chat I had with Cheryl Turtlemoon. Just for once I ignored all the blood and gore and just enjoyed the gossip. I hope you did too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Pop over to her website if the muse takes you and see all the goodies etc on sale. Maybe you fancy a reading. Cheryl does many ranges of prices and it can also be done by Skype if that's your preference.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Right then back to the blood and gore. I think I have a gardener coming up next. I might put in some sound effects from previous inhabitants screams. I want her to feel comfortable here. (evil cackle)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Laters Potaters</span></div>
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