Things are picking up in York and Britain now as it’s the middle of April and the Sun is bright and even warm at times.

We have been invited to a party next month and the instruction is ‘Hawaiian Themed’. I bought a bright shirt off tinternet and a floral garland to go with it. That was not quite the truth, my wife bought them because I said that I wouldn’t bother, no one will notice. It became a pantomime; ‘O yes you will’. ‘O no I won’t’. The wills won as usual in these situations.

I am suffering a sore throat and snotty nose at he moment. It’s one of those that make you feel seriously ill when you arise in the morning but after an hour it’s not so bad, then after two hours you feel fine; until bedtime when it all comes back like Dracula from the coffin. That’s odd too, I don’t do much coughing.

I have written around 80K words for the book but only 38,644 in the story so far. The rest are recorded but discarded. I wrote a 2K piece about two people having a conversation only to realise later that I had the dates wrong, It could not have happened the way I portrayed it and I was really pleased with it too,but it had to go. I think they call it ‘kill you darlings’. I don’t know much about writing books but a quick count of the ones on my shelf vary from 80K+ to 120K words. I can take pleasure in the fact that some time today I will reach the minimum half way point. One big worry I could have is material but not with this story. I have lots of stuff still to go over. I expect to finish at 90K words but if it runs over it won’t matter.

There is a General Election coming up in May. We have our voting cards that confirm we are registered. Trouble is I have only just realised that I am not at home that day. I will see about a postal vote on Monday but it may be too late; Sugar.

Well, the sun is shining and the garden is waking up for summer and there is a lot of jobs to do. I could well do to sit here and write all day but it isn’t a good thing for the mind and body is it? Half and half today perhaps. I need a lot of rainy days if I’m to make any good progress with the qwerty. Oh, did I say, I don’t compose on paper much. I have forced myself to type it all as I think it. At first I could not do it but now it come naturally and no crossing out. If I want to change anything I type a row of ZZZZZZZs at the start and end of the piece so I can’t drift off the corrections. When I’m happy I then remove the ZZZZZZs.

I have found in my long life that whenever I do anything new and finish it I have a daydream that I am only just beginning but with the knowledge off the first effort still in my brain. When this book is done I know that I will think, I could do a better job of it now.

Adieu