Weather

Well here we are in France able to use the pool as more than just a water storage device and now we are heading back to the UK where the weather has just turned crap.

 

Work to be done though and writing to read.

 

Have some summer fun.

Rain

I know talking about the weather is boring, but I am an Englishman and its what we do.

 

So - Rain - Rain - Rain - Rain - Rain.  Its raining.  No I mean really raining, water falling water, from the sky not from a waterfall water.  Its rain.  Pants, no walking today, just stuck in the house.

Today, we will live a little.

The SNCF weren't helpful at all to Jane on her own down in Cannes yesterday so she's got to drive back up here on her own.  So they get a big thumbs down today.

 

I've got to go and try to get my money back, since I already paid for my tickets for Friday.  But the short story is on its way.  There is no more that can be done to it.  Its in the lap of the judges now.

 

Lots to do today, but I have a week of next week.  Very Nice.

Coffee

I do believe in the power of coffee,  my second one and it is good.  Us English just don't know how to make good coffee,  the Europeans understand that it is important.  If a cafe has crap coffee it won't last here.

Is Summer here?

The Sun is shining and there are birds nesting in the eaves of the house.  Everything is calm.  But where is Jane?  It is nothing without someone to share with.

 

Two weeks apart, a lifetime somehow.

 

I am writing, finishing my short story which means I can now start writing poetry again.  Struggling with the ideas and then the writing and rewriting has taken all my time.  Just got to proof read and send it off now. 

Back again so soon.

The weather has improved and we have been in the pool.  A great idea after strimming the gardens, the orchard and mowing the lawn.  Now for a Gin and Tonic.

 

On the plus side my short story has finally come together and I will try to finish it soon.  But poetry has taken a slow seat at the moment.  But I have just recieved 'Seeing Stars' by Simon Armitage,  I will be reading that soon.