Decorating

Had my girl team in for a few days now. Half the house done.
But writing...lots done, did not miss a day. But its lost somewhere. Did not save to memory stick, only saved shortcut. Now I can't find all my work.
Big disaster.
BIG disaster

Decorating

Having the place decorated, constant headaches. Despite only doing walls so far and able to have doors open. One room done five to.go. oh dear.

National health

After living out of the U.K. for over 20 years I think the national health is crap.
You wait, wait, wait.you get squeezed into generic cheaper medicines and in many situations treated like you should be grateful for any kind of attention. You are the very poor relation. It's a high price to pay in terms of health care and well being.
There really is very.little worth saving.
Especially reading today how doctors are charging billions for non existant patients.
Is no one honest any more?

Words..fantasy

What a word spell that one is. Carrying you straight off into a wonderful land where anything is possible and dreams do come true.
An adventure everytime.

Dreams

I love to dream. Every night a complex story. Magical places, often a leader or teacher of communes.
Birds or people to care for, rugged coastline preparing for safety.some struggles but never alone.
It is fascinating to keep a dream dairy. Such diverse adventures.

Good cruisy day

Had a cruisy day, no cooking, a bit of tv, a bit of Twitter, blogging and writing. Now having cup of tea with in laws. A lovely, lively bunch. That will wake me up. Nice

Editing drives me crazy

Because I constantly mess with the prose and the story Adding, subtracting turning it all inside out and upside down.
I will never finish, its much worse than deciding when to stop a painting

Words.serendipity

It has a.flow, a music to it.
It's more than chance, better than luck and coincidence together, better organized than fortune.
It is more a combination of chance and destiny
A word with gentle power.

Houses, home and real estate

So much going on in our family. Houses selling, house purchase, renting problems. Inability to move, broken families, marriages.
Why don't things slow down for a bit
My head is spinning.
I have enough stuff going on around me to write books without end. Family and friend are doing things you could not imagine......help...

Hoping for another good one

After yesterday, I am excited about lots more writing today. Fingers crossed.
I shall soon be finished the editing at this rate. Yipee. Couple of three weeks  maybe.

A good writing day

Despite many interuptions, I had a brilliant day of writing. Edited nearly three chapters before running out of steam.
A direct result of feeling better.even though I go to bed  tonight aching from many mock attacks and dives by my 4 year old grandson. I loved it until I felt in real fear for my fragile joints. No one understands, my daughter in law said, ahhh children are hard work, I tell dean all the time.
Sorry dear, I have different problems to weariness. But what's the point...
Still I had a REAL writers day.
Hurah

Writing and stuff

Or stuff writing.
I don't really mean that but ....I wish, I wish, I wish.
I know I can't stop writing now I 've begun. Could not ever find time before I became ill. Now, out of the ratrace I am so lucky to have the time. but I wish I still had the health to do it with less pain and more energy.
Just can't please some people.

Up late for me

I think I must be getting better again. It's half past ten at night and I am still awake and dressed. Yippee.
A toast to good health. May we all enjoy plenty.

Getting cold

After being up to 8
Temp is now dropping rapidly.
Brrrrr
Writing in bits and pieces, flowing still even.though its.still editing.
Will it ever end.
I do feel painfully slow.

Can see the O 2 dome

In Greenwich, London from here. It makes my heart sing to see it, I just love it.
Who ever wad it who wanted it destroyed a few years back. Crazy people. Got to cherish everything beautiful.
Ok not so beautiful inside but it serves a function and its iconic appearance serves the area well.
Ahhhh

'Ain't life grand' gripe-energy.

Or rather, the lack of it.
Such a day has been mine.
Gone from bed to couch, from sitting to laying, to napping, and in the dressing gown all day.
Oh dear so tired but better tomorrow.
I hope.

Still living ha ha

Trying to do a few on line jobs. Arrrg
How many times will I get offers for being the big winner. Then, it will not let me go either backwards or forwards.
Why can't other links be as good at maintainings limks.

Trying to write

But dizyness defeats me.another attack.
I get so frustrated, tired of feeling ill, tired of it holding me back and more than tired of moaning about it.
Ho hum.
How to get out of this pattern of frustration.
Be positive, at least I am not dying.
Give me strength

Frustrating illness.

Under the weather again. M.E.
Sick, dizzy and headache. Sometimes its so like flu its uncanny.
I am not a good patient. Just as well i am on my own most of the time. I would be a pain to live with. Hope I can write later. Give it a bit of time to be manageable. Uggg. Droopy

Words .... bemused

That's the word interesting me today.
It's evocative and how I feel about life just at this second.
Soon I could be
Ecstatic

'Ain't life grand' gripe- service

Today, I have had one bad or rude service after another. It does happen in days.
Sales staff, pharmacy staff, each shrugging in offhand manner at requests or being our of stock, downright rude until coffee shop counter staff tear me off a strip for asking if they had newspapers.
At which stage, very politely, I bite back.
10 minutes later, the rude one actually came over and apologized.
Wowee. That's a result. Cheered me for the day.

Docs

Out and about today.doctor, shopping etc.
Got laptop with me so will find a little corner somewhere, have coffee and write for as many hours as I can.
I shall be a oblivious of all around me. Wonderful

2 nd busy day

Constantly losing things and rediscovering others complicates my day. A busy day is worse still with more of the same.
Well.....at least I don't get bored.

Tired but happy family

Tired after a busy family day. Got to walk, talk and eat together. Then played silly iPad and smart phone games, laughed and remembered the past while building nice memories  for the future.
Ahhh how lucky am I.

Saturday lunch

The air is raw at -4 in London but the sun is shining. The family is having lunch together later, as always I am so impatient for everyone to arrive.
I vascilate between. Reading, writing and napping in the warmth of the sun. Ho hum

Words. Lush

What an evocative word.
Just sink right into it. Luxuriate
LUSH. I love words

Late for me

Still up and awake as I am spellbound(isn't that a wonderful word) by being on line on my ipad2 now fired by hot spot on my smart phone. Amazing.... Technology, don't you just love it.

10 Feb longer session

Things are slowly improving. Just done a two hour session of re writing and editing. A good span for me with all my aches and pains.
On p.16 of 696 for the 12th or maybe 20th time.
Suddenly seems to be looking right.
Maybe I can get beyond chapter 12 this time. Fingers and toes crossed

Ain't life grand-opticians

Another year gone. Todays gripe(ain't life grand) checkup on eyes. Sight deteriorated bit more. Now need help for both long and short sight. Even with special offers I must pay £200.
Can't write and paint and keep my eye on everything with poor sight can I.
So, got to bite the bullet

Titanic

I lost a great uncle in the engine room of the titanic. William Moore. I can see the attraction- if this is for real. Ali keilly (Moore)
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Ain't life grand

Is about daily frustrations. This one is about trying to add things/extra to my blog. Huh. What a joke, lots of explanations of how to but no page that responds

Another day (without ) another dollar

Another day of editing....
I began the story of how I began writing this book.
never at a loss to make up stories, I put pen to paper, and it was paper and waited to see where it would go.
It went to the sixties, a period which resonates with many of us still. Even those who were not there the first time around.
I began. With a name... Maizy. It must popped into my mind, and let her go.
That's the way I have always written, letters, notes or essays, but never having attempted a book before I did not know if it would be enough.
More later.....

9 Feb

Not being able to sleep is good for social networking but bad for my exhaustion. Will have to read a bit now and hope I can drop off. Although it does mean I get to spot more of the rest of the world tweets so its not all bad

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Evening 8 Feb

Tired all day after my full social day yesterday. Editing between the naps. Problematicle for getting real work done. Never mind, never give up.

How I began writing

In New Zealand on a visit to family, with time to spare I resolved to write a book. Like my art, something I put off for many years due to  pressure of work. Always imaginative, it still took me some time to make a serious start....

8 feb

After an unusually late night of birthday celebrations for my son, arriving home at 11pm. All I could manage was to crawl onto the couch, waking up several hours later, confused. Then followed a night in bed, sleeping like the dead until nearly 9 am.
Now, I must organize my stunned brain to write.

7th February.

My eldest son's birthday and Charles Dickens. It's his 200th anniversary. My son isn't that old. Ha ha

My nemesis

Writing is adictive, a force of nature, a necessity, an illness.
Put that together with a physical illness of M.E. my personal nemesis, then see me struggle.
Daily updates.

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