The Acorn, a wiffle lever and some progress...

Excellent writing weekend - managed over 3,700 words and a substantial amount of editing. With a holiday from work approaching, I'm hoping to be just about finished by the end of April. At the moment, it's an unwieldy 340 pages so there'll have to be some trimming, otherwise cost and weight will be prohibitive! Left Hamish tied to a chair at the end of the session on Saturday. It ought to keep him out of mischief for the week... Music on the stereo for the last three days has been The Acorn's album - 'Glory Mountain Dreamer' which is gorgeous. They were support for Elbow when we went to see them a couple of weeks ago and they were really good, but the album is sublime - a bit like Fleet Foxes but more mellow, lots of banjo and guitar and some Penguin Cafe type rhythms. The words are heavenly. As for the wiffle lever...well, since January, I've been indulging in a childhood obsession, working my way through boxed sets of the BBCs 'Blakes 7' on DVD and I came across the intriguing 'Wiffle Lever to Full!' book by Bob Fischer which is funny and nostalgic and really made me smile last week. Bob Fischer has a brilliant blog - I'll find the link and post it - in which he is currently serialising his 1984 diary with 2009 annotations. If you were a child of the 80s or indeed a lover of tv sci-fi, please check it out! Best cake at the moment is probably Costa coffee's breakfast loaf which is packed with carrot, apples, sultanas and pumpkin and sunflower seeds. It feels very healthy which is just as well as the accompanying latte you need with it most definitely isn't!