Update: I did that think where I thought today (Saturday) was tomorrow (Sunday) so I didn’t think about a blog until it was too late, so I shan’t be adding plaything today (Saturday) apart from this to say I should be back with you the day after tomorrow (Monday.) Carry on enjoying the New Year. Thank you.
Happy New Year from Symi
Happy New Year, Xronia Polla, and all that from Symi! I am writing this on New Year’s Eve and my feet are getting rather chilly, even though I am wearing slippers, toasties, trousers, a t shirt, a jumper, a sweatshirt and a dressing gown, and the heater is on. But at least we are not flooded or being stormed on and the sun is out, the sea is flat-ish and all is right with the world as we leave 2015 and enter 2016.
I’m not one for NY resolutions, but I am one for setting myself goals. This coming year I aim to: Get ‘Straight Swap’ out there for you to read. Follow that with ‘Shocking The Donkeys’ by the end of the year. Start back on ‘The Saddling’ and get that first draft finished. That’s three major projects. I also need to rid myself of this holiday excess and get back to early walks, or later in the day walks, I feel like I’ve been in this house for two weeks without getting out, which, fabulous though it is, is not exactly true. So, writing and saving money are the aims for the year.
For all those who follow such things, I have also started fiddling with a new Facebook page. Rather than have a solo page for each title (of my books) I decided to put them all together in one place. The pages for the novels and books will start to disappear, along with their many ‘likes’, sadly, but news and info about them will be put on the one page from now on, and you can find that here: https://www.facebook.com/jamescollinsauthor/ There’s not a lot there and I am still working on it, but a new page for 2016 felt right. I will still have my own personal page and the Symi Dream page of course, and a couple of others that I am only one admin of so can’t get rid of, but it feels good to be tidying up a bit in the social media area.
I’m not going to stay long or get dewy-eyed about the year that’s just gone, a good one though it was, but I would like to say thank you to everyone who has: read the blog, sent emails and messages, contributed to the blog with guest posts, pointed out typos, been to the house for drinks, bought us drinks and meals on Symi, bought books and calendars, made this year so special and one to remember. The highlights? So many… Um… Let me think…
Birthday parties, beach parties, long walks, short walks, sunrises, publishing a new novel, starting on two others, moving house, working for myself (no bar work), visiting Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Belgrade and Rhodes. The view from the new house, helping the refugees, mother visiting for a month, nephew George visiting for a week, my Christmas dressing gown (so warm!), invites to baptisms, walking to Panormitis (and the sit down with a beer at the end of that walk), meeting new people, making new friends. There, that’ll do, Donkey, that’ll do.
So, onwards in to 2016 and with great plans ahead. We’ll keep on blogging even if it is only to give the weather updates and view from the windows. We’ll be here on Symi, no holidays planned, no money! We’re not planning to go anywhere else so keep reading the pages, keep reading the books, keep spreading the word and have yourself a great New Year. I will leave you with a few photos from my recent holiday and a quote from the up-coming new novel, ‘Straight Swap.’
“Friendship is the love that celebrates our differences.”
Happy New Year from Symi
Happy New Year from Symi!
