One thing you might remember is that I tend to write these posts a day ahead of posting. I’m out of bed and leaping around gazelle-like bright and early, have a cup of tea, read the news and wish I hadn’t, and then sit down at the typowriter to start on the day. Being someone who likes things to be planned, and who likes to be at least semi-organised, I usually start with my admin, and that includes any blogs for the next day. Today (yesterday) I thought I’d start with a few words ready for Tuesday (Today), because on Tuesday morning, I must wright a WIP for Wednesday (the day after).
A WIP?
A Work In Progress blog post for my Jackson readers. This is something my PA had me start a while back now, and it’s become a regular thing. On Saturdays, I post a long post about research, what I’m writing or reading, about characters from my books, or something else more substantial. On Wednesday, though, the post is a where I am at with the current work in progress, and I like to have that scheduled a day ahead. Anyone interested in following where I am at with the next novel, can check the Jackson Blog here.
If you’re a Facebook fan, then I have a Jackson page and also a private group you are welcome to join.
Meanwhile on Symi
There’s also the Symi Dream Facebook page if you’ve not already found it. In other news…
Over time, I’ll trawl back through my photos from the past two years and see what I can share, while also posting anything new I happen to snap when I am out and about. Mind you, ‘out and about’ for me these days usually means the courtyard (see photo of the chilli farm), although I do occasionally get further than the gate. For example, once a week I pop down to visit my godson to play some piano and talk about music. Through the summer holidays, it’s more of a fun session than a classical lesson as it is in term time, and currently, we’re looking at lead sheets and how to interpret guitar chords on the piano. Once that’s mastered, you can more or less play any song simply by reading the melody and bunging in a few chords. After 40 minutes or so of this, and riffs, the basics of 12-bar blues etc., we have a chat and an ice cream. He’s working at the new Kali Strata restaurant this summer, doing what many people do young and old alike, working every day of the week without a day off until the end of the season.
While I am a stay-at-home basher of the keyboard, Neil has other things to attend to. Over the past couple of years, he has taken a variety of courses, such as intros to sociology, psychology and some basic BSL, and has taken up diving. He’s doing this with Blue Lagoon Divers on Symi, and is training himself to take photos underwater. (The one of him was taken by Alessandra, one of the instructors). It’s not a thing I fancy doing, but he’s taken to it like a man in rubber to water, and if you want to give it a go, or dive on your PADI card, then contact Blue Lagoon.
There will be more photos from under the sea in time. Neil has a great one of a lionfish, for example, but I can’t find it right now.
I must get on with the next book and leave you to whatever you’re doing. Just to say, the weather here is behaving, we’re hanging around the 30 degrees mark, I’d say, there’s not so much wind to blow the dust up my nose and make me sneeze, and the island is busy but not riotously so. Not yet, anyway. My bother-in-law arrives on Friday for a few days, so anything could happen. Watch this space.
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