Florence Nightingale

This week I have mostly been dealing with a sickly dog. My sister's sickly dog to be exact. She is an old dog, we though thirteen but the vet now reckons fifteen. My sister got Bella from Battersea Dogs Home about six years ago so it was anyone's guess how old she was. And considering she has only slowed down in the past two years we can be forgiven for having gotten it wrong.

So the Bella bean, who is one eyed after an op last year and cataracts in the remaining one, has had some exploratory surgery. She has growths, we were hoping they could remove them but they can't, so they stapled her back up. Now your probably thinking she is staggering everywhere, all forlorn... erm.... no. We have been in a battle of wills with her antibiotics, I have discovered I hiding it in a ball of tuna and hand feeding it seems to be working. She has had her ball out and has tried to play tug of war with her stuffed elephant. Is this really a dog of fifteen who has about twenty staples keeping her insides in??

The Parents have been up and down giving me a hand which has its ups and downs. Ups are nice meals and seeing them. The downside... having to watch Euro2008!! Sheesh!! In retaliation I WILL be watching Big Brother.

In between all of this I have managed to revise three quarters of Dream Date... it is patchy but still better than where it was. I'm hoping to get it finished before the RNA conference on the weekend.

Things I Have Been Doing

A whole week since my last post?!?! Gosh golly where does the time go? So what have I been up to... well the farflung Coady clan member has been home for a week so she could go to Ascot. As you do. And this was all work related (allegedly). I'm not sure watching the gee-gees, hobnobbing with the rich and famous and having your glass of Bollinger never run dry can be really classified as work but she assures me it does.

Instead I have been slogging back and forth to Kingston for work except for Tuesday when you could find me doing spectacular U-turns on Kensington Gore and in parts of Bayswater. They were moves worthy of a black cab driver... maybe I should think of a career change?
In the writing world I have been polishing my submission for this year's Elizabeth Goudge trophy. This is given out at the RNA conference, I don't stand a chance but it was fun to write the first chapter of this book and it is now on the schedule for after the Artist book (i.e. jumping ahead of the Italian one).

Yes I know you are all searching for your whips to crack about the revisions *quickly sidesteps a vicious flick from Michelle* but there has been some movement on that as well. I have booked the end of next week off so that I can have four uninterrupted days to work on them. I have completely lost sight of the narrative thread and I am making a pigs ear of it. So fingers crossed this time next week things will be further along.

In the radio world there is some good news!! My chartshow has a sponsor again, in fact it is the same one as before. So welcome back to The Tennessee Tourist Board!

Blogging at The Pink Heart Society!

YES!! I am up at The Pink Heart Society this week. So if you want to find out what I have been up to have a look.

Friday? Again?

As some of you eagle-eyed people will realise my blog wasn't up on at The Pink Heart Society last weekend. Not sure what happened there, still trying to find out. If it doesn't go up this weekend I will post it here.

But how did it get round to being Friday again? Not that I am complaining... oh no! I am happily thinking about what needs doing this weekend and rubbing my hands in glee. But I have realised what a quiet life I am leading at the moment. Work, writing, radio, running and dieting.

Yes... dieting. *sigh* Sadly after too much of the good life it has been time to knuckle down and actually do something about my ever expanding waistline. No easy fixes... *curses* just old-fashioned cutting of portion sizes, not eating chocolate, laying off the booze (have managed to be below the recommended units level for two weeks now! My liver doesn't know what to do with itself!) So far so good, as of last Saturday I have lost 1.5kg and the mirror seems to show a bit of a difference.

This weekend Coady Major is back from SF for the week so I can see it all going out the window!

Blogging at The Pink Heart Society!

It is that time of the month again... I will be over at the Pink Heart Society blogging about my writing for the past month.

That Time Of The Year...

Yup Big Brother is back!! Oh dear... I see my productivity taking a dive.