Apparently, today is Ride your Motorbike to Work Day, which will please Grouse. As I don't have a bike, and couldn't ride one even if I did (I'm not much good at balance!) I went to work on the train as usual. However, it's nice to think lots of people did ride to work. I got very excited the other day when I spotted a Bonnie (in emerald green!) in our local service station - a most handsome beast!Speaking of handsome beasts, SCOTCH PINE has been duly delivered into the hands of those who requested a copy. It's strange to think that so many people I know are taking it on holiday with them this year! I haven't been able to bring myself to read it yet - I'm waiting till I can face it like a book, rather than something that needs another edit!
My summer hols start in two days and for the first time in six years, I'm not in the middle of a writing project. I'm really looking forward to six-and-a-bit weeks of doing very little at all. Fingers crossed for some nice weather. I'm going to Harrogate to the Crime Writing Festival and then to Edinburgh to see Ian Rankin at the Book Festival so it won't be an entirely non-crime fiction holiday and I have a pile of reading waiting for me!
Best cake of late - something rather delicious in the Bakewell line in the Imperial War Museum at Salford Quays - a truly amazing building and a really good - and entirely free - day out! Drover would have liked it! We were in Salford for the final 'fixture' of the ballet season - got to wait a bit for my next fix! I love Salford Quays.
