Goodness
No blog posting since 22nd February. Think that's a personal best. (Or should that be worst??) What the dickens happened to drag me away from writing for you fine people (I can hear you cry)?
Well. Although the glittering writing career has yet to leave the runway (hmm..possibly the hangar, come to think of it), I have been writing - namely entering short story competitions and progressing with the assignments for my distance learning course. Much as I thought I was able to multi-task, during the months of April, May & June I entered six or seven competitions, and the blog just fell by the wayside as I was getting into writing fiction. Which oddly, was something I never thought I would be especially interested in.
Anyways, since I last wrote a blog posting, a number of things have happened: various people have come to visit; I turned thirty; we've moved flat in Honkers and adopted two kittens. However, by far and away the most exciting, the most thrilling and the most doggone gleeful event since then happened just over four months' ago:
Packer and Pies got engaged!
Now I'm fairly certain that won't come as much of a surprise to you - particularly as so much time has passed since it happened, I think anyone who used to read this blog will have been told by one of us personally/attended our engagement drinks. (Unless of course you were there at The Loop bar with absolutely no idea what you were celebrating and weren't permanently blinded by the sparkle from the rock on my left hand. In which case, you probably shouldn't have been there.) Though having said that, it was funny how the main subject pretty much everyone wanted to ask me about was 'the shrinking of Pies' and how it had happened, rather than asking for a gawp at the ring and gushingly requesting all the details on the proposal. Tempted as I was to stand on the bar and yell "this is my engagement party, people - somebody ask to see the ring, goddamit!", I realised I haven't quite reached that level of diva-ness/bridezilla-dom. Yet.
So, for those who are interested, I've written the story of how the proposal unfolded and decided to use it as the start of another blog (cos I've been so good at keeping up with this one ;) ) where you can follow all the trials, tribulations and jubilations involved in our (i.e. my) planning of the big day. Link to the new blog is:
Now don't fret. I still plan to write on this blog too; if you're lucky, you won't have to wait another 240-something days for another post! I've also go to get cracking on that novel that Pies keeps pestering me to write - you know, the one that will be so successful that he can give up work and get his Aston Martin. Er, yeah. OK...
Seriously though, new flat in a new area, new regime - have been managing to write every day for the last five days. Long may it continue!
