I'm settling back down to writing. We managed 6 performances in 4 days, plus various activities which the Friends of Birmingham Royal Ballet organise for our delight. It has been an amazing week but I am exhausted today! I can honestly say that I haven't given the novel a thought since last weekend and I am aware of time ticking by... So tomorrow night I'll get going again. (Best cakes this week were found in Starbucks. So were some of the company, which definitely made the cakes even tastier!)
Ballet has been an inspiration for poetry for about ten years although I've never really done anything with the poems I wrote. However, I'm considering 'lulu-ing' a slim volume of the ones I like the best, just for the pleasure of seeing them in print. Once you've published one book, it really does become an obsession. Maybe, once Scotch Pine is finished, I'll bite the bullet and have a go! BRB are an amazing company, talented and individual and so exciting to watch.
I'm also toying with replacing my beloved laptop. I've had it almost six years, some of the labels on the keys have worn off and several of the keys stick or need to be hit twice (strangely, P, M, and most of the vowels, but not E...?!) The battery hasn't worked for years. There's probably enough shortbread crumb under the keyboard to make an entire Petticoat Tail, and the cracked cover is beginning to resemble crazy paving. It's as slow as a tortoise working to rule, and it crashes at the most innopportune moments, but I love it dearly: we've been through a lot together and I have a (quite ridiculous and throughly sentimental) desire to finish SP on it. After that... well, maybe it's time to retire it!
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