Cats, Goats and Weekend plans
Let’s enter the weekend with some animal shots, shall we? I have no idea why. I was simply browsing through my folders and saw a few cute cats and characterful goats, and thought, why not?
While you’re doing whatever you’re doing over the weekend, I’ll be working away on my latest story. I am one chapter away from finishing the first draft. This one was born out of an idea that only took proper shape as I wrote my way through 90,000 words (with another 4,000 or more to go), so I will need to start again next week on draft two and do a lot more work. I almost have a title, and so I can start my designer working on a cover. I will also finish my Phantom model as best I can so I can clear the kitchen table for Neil’s baking. We’ve had a wonderfully endless round of cakes and biscuits, curries and other delicious things since Christmas, all made while he’s wearing his MasterChef apron (personalised, of course).
There may be some rare walking going on, from me, I mean. Neil’s been doing up to eight miles each day with Clare, and bravo them. He left yesterday bundled up in several layers looking like the Michelin Man and set off for Nimborio again. If you walk from the village, down the main road, follow it around the coast, reach the far side of Nimborio bay, and then come back on the same route, you will be covering eight miles, should you ever wish to know.
Meanwhile, if you head up to Xissos and try to get up to St Nikitas church on the steeply sloping path that’s the middle of three roads (if you know the area, you will know where I mean), you can’t. Not this week at least as the road is being improved and resurfaced. This will make driving and walking to Ag Nikitas and that area easier. At least, I think that’s where Neil described his route, he wasn’t too sure where he’d gone that day, but it sounded like that was the right direction.
Anyway, I’m off to write and create and keep warm, do the shopping, try and find a cover for a leaky wall-tap in the bathroom that’s there to feed a washing machine and seems to have deteriorated despite never being used. I tried the universal fix of gaffer tape, but that’s not worked, so I need to investigate some basic plumbing items, a bit of a first for me. And that will be my weekend. Whatever you’re doing, I hope you have a good one.
