So I will just start writing and see where the muse takes me.
That in fact sums up how I often write. I have two basic ways of putting pen to paper or finger to keyboard. The first is to keep a mental note of things that come up during the day, sometimes I write these down in note form as a reminder to blog about them later.
Than there is the other way which simply involves just seeing what comes up when I start writing.
Yesterday morning it was so nice to wake up with the sun streaming through the windows and no need to put a dressing gown on as I went downstairs to make a cup of tea for me and the other threequarters.
Sometimes we have ordinary tea and sometimes peppermint. Yesterday was a peppermint day. It's always my task to get the tea which is fine as she does the cooking, something I'm always truly grateful about but don't tell her I said so.
Once up, there was a big decision to make. Should I get the bus into Norwich or not? These are the kind of tough decisions you have to make when you are retired. On the balance of things I decided to hop on a bus and have a wander around town (which is actually a city of course).
I usually don't wander very far as the Forum Library is a huge draw. Before going, however, I had some people to contact for coming presentations at our village library. Then the sunshine disappeared and we were left with a grey day and rain.
My main reason for going into Norwich, apart from having a read and a cup of coffee was to have a look at the makers festival in the Forum, conveniently in the same place as the library. I was a bit short of time so had to rush round and will return tomorrow for a longer look.
But first we had lunch in a tiny Norwich cafe entitled Little Haven which is exactly what it is. It only holds about 10 people but the food and drink are nicely priced and you can chat with some interesting people because it's not big enough to get away from anyone.
This little cafe is in a side road very close to the old Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and pretty close to the Trowel and Hammer Pub.
I primarily went to the makers festival to see one thing - the knitted Buckingham Palace which was featured during the week on national television.
It's been knitted by a lady who is 94 this year. It was lovely to hear a real old Norfolk accent on Breakfast Television. This lady has done some extraordinary knitting art. A few years ago she knitted the entire Great Yarmouth seafront and then Sandringham Estate. Her name is Margaret Seaman and she's become quite a celebrity, being awarded a British Empire Medal for her charity fundraising.
I took some photos of knitted Buckingham Palace but had all the wrong settings on and so I will return tomorrow to take some more which I will post on Sunday's blog.
On the way to the bus, I popped into Waterstones to see what's new on the book front. It always amazes me how many new books are published and how often the displays change. My particular area of interest is history and there are so many books of a similar nature published. I saw one huge tome that was "a new history of the Third Reich." It was bigger and had more pages than most histories of the Third Reich but do we need another history of this period and is there anything new to say that hasn't already been said in numerous previous books?
I'm afraid I'm pretty jaundiced in this matter as my/our book on the Le Paradis Massacre was initially accepted by a publisher who then changed their mind and it was subsequently turned down by a number of other publishers. My problem with this is that our book has a considerable amount of new research and information on the subject matter and isn't just a re-hash of what's gone before. It will come out as we will be self publishing and I know it will sell well because of the contacts that we have. Hopefully the publisher who accepted it, said they were excited by the project and then changed their minds will live to rue their decision.