Blog 12 – Sheer Delight – Cape Grapes and Chocolate …
The intentional fib in the last blog (11) was that I had posted that the tenth blog was credited as the ninth whereas I had actually credited as the eighth. Too complicated. I did have Louis di Bianco’s TV erroneously carted away in Montreal and I did leave him a pair of bathroom scales in exchange as I couldn’t get them in my suitcase.
Talking of suitcases – no-one mentioned that I had been in Cape Town for all of March. I was there (amongst other things) covering Pimple Popping Plots with the Fish Hoek Scribblers and in Milnerton with the West Coast Writers. Pure delight. The latter asked me if I would like my notorious flip chart to face the clock or the window. I said it would be rather novel to teach facing Table Mountain. They said – “It’s Devil’s Peak, actually.” But who’s quibbling about mountains? There are so many in Cape Town where I received my first bee sting in March and can now join the grown up race.
I met Viv from www.scenicsouth.co.za Please visit – a shame you can’t be in the scenic south in person but more of my words are on Viv’s website – this month: ‘Cape Grapes’ and ‘Sheer Delight – Chocolate.’
That’s enough for now as I’m still in holiday humour and can’t wait to receive all these Dear John missives – see www.janmoranneil.co.uk for all the details. Proof reading for Patricia Sentinella’s collection by the same name was going on whilst I was out in Cape Town getting bee stings and popping plots and I can’t wait for Creative Ink Publishing’s launch in a few weeks. That’s when Creative Ink classes start for the summer. A few places left but all courses are running.
I’m still trying to give away six handout sheets for the intentional fib. And I was in Cape Town.
Hi Jan, as usual I have no idea what the fib is! However, as you mentioned bee stings, I feel it would be disloyal to my name not to hazzard a guess that this wasn’t your first bee sting…although if it has happened before, I accept no responsibility – it wasn’t me guv.
Bee (no sting)
Hi Jan – it was great to have you visit us at West Coast Writers’ Circle in Milnerton and present ‘Introducing a Character’ which I understand was what you had presented at Fishhoek (not Pimple Popping Plots … Intentional Fib I’m sure !) and we are so looking forward to having you back next year, for a full morning we hope. Bless you and enjoy your English summer as we go into our soggy Cape winter ! Regards, Dawn
Hmm, I can’t spot it either and was going to guess at the bee sting. Mind you, I’ve only been stung once in my life too so I guess it could be true…
I’m a member of the Fish Hoek Scribblers and I can’t recall any mention of “Pimple Popping Plots” at the meeting Jan attended in March … however, perhaps I dozed off at the wrong moment? Nonetheless, I’m going to say that that is the deliberate fib.
Let me also say that it was a pleasure having Jan at our meeting and I look forward to her next visit to sunny South Africa.