Spending Cash and Calories …

Blog 41 – Spending Cash and Calories …On each blog Ms Paige tells a Porkie Pie and on this one that Limited Edition Rhyme & Reason is still going …

I’ve been in Purdah all Bank Holiday weekend, reading writers’ words and assessing their delightful stories. Words tend to come in on the second week of term for some unknown reason and I just siphon off the weekend and live in my pyjamas. Writers fret that the basic idea isn’t good enough, or the material they are writing isn’t right, or that the final product will be nothing like they had first envisaged and will all the time and money invested be worth it.
Master Plan is making my MOB (Mother of the Bride Outfit) and I’ve fretted – not knowing exactly how it’s going to pan out. He seems confident he can pull the threads together and I feel I am in safe sewing hands. I think the fabric is good, I had an idea of the design (something like Carole Middleton’s of course) and I’ve been putting shades together and seeing if they work. It isn’t how I had first envisaged it but I’ve learnt a lot on this journey: about me and about how something comes together. It’s taken time, money and I need to watch calories. I hope it will be worth it but at least Miss Trial will know I did my best and gave it thought.
That’s called Analogy.
Of course Miss Trial and I have had some good Sushi and Sauvignon Blanc along the way, just to lubricate Life. Once we’ve spent some cash and spared some calories in Low Fat Restaurants, she decides to take the train ride home when we sit up with her dad, Mr Justin Case and eat cheese and chocolate digestive biscuits. Last week I was teaching the next day so retired early, once again faint from the fitting. But then some two hours later both Miss Trial and Mr Justin Case burst into my bedroom falling, laughing on my bed and telling me how much they loved me or one another. I can’t remember which – I just said –“P*** off, I’ve got to get up and teach Free Indirect Speech tomorrow.” There’s dedication for you.

What a lovely lot of writers came to Children’s Writing at Iver last weekend and looking forward to ‘Write Beginnings’ this coming one at Missenden Abbey. Writers can come – no admission fee – to Tim AJ Cox’s talk on E-Publishing on Kindle on Thursday 31st May at the Fitzwilliams Centre, Beaconsfield at 11.00am as I’ve booked a larger room but please email me first.
Master Brylcream (Technical Director) and Miss Brylcream-in-Waiting – have a lovely wedding day next Saturday and I hope there’s a scent of confetti in the air which is Synaesthasia.