I have at last found time to write my blog. It’s not that I haven’t been writing it’s more that I am writing other stuff.  Not all writing mind you, I have read a lot of research books and articles but the more I read them more I realise that I am not on track with the story and have to scrap half of it and start again.  Perhaps I should only take notes for a while and write the odd on-theme but disconnected paragraph.  I have spent quite a bit on books off t’internet but each one only gives me so much information about the subject; but they always recommend another book to buy. Nil desparandum I think the phrase is.

It’s very cold here in the North of England at the moment being close to freezing during the day and below in the night.  We went to the cinema today to see ‘Testament of Youth’, written by Vera Britain after the First World War.  Very brutal and very sad it is. If I was a bit more emotional I would have cried at a few points; but I’m not so didn’t.  Alicia Vikander plays Vera and brilliant performance she gave too. If you get a chance go and see it.  One tip, go when it’s warmer because the cinema near us was cold, I kept my anorak on all of the time it was so uncomfortable. When there were shots of the men in rain soaked muddy trenches I felt that I was with then in there, I couldn’t have been any colder.

The fence blew down again last week. One post had snapped at the bottom, where else? it’s always at the bottom isn’t it.  I bought a new post for less than a tenner and my neighbour and me fixed it.  I ruined a saw blade trying to cut through the nails through the panels but it turned out they were screws and hardened. My neighbour simply unscrewed them from his side; doh.

It huffed and it puffed and it blew the fence down