Thought I should starting doing my Blog Again

Well, I thought it was about time I started writing this Blog again. I seem to have left it far too long. I’m still considering moving from Wix for the simple reason that I like the idea of a free site that can be shared with sites like Facebook and Twitter. That was half the problem I had with WordPress, at first I could share it with Facebook; but then it went all strange. Then, suddenly I couldn’t link it to Facebook whatever machinations I performed I couldn’t get it to link – so I changed websites to Wix. My books – sorry my POD books – arrived from Lulu.com today and while I’m fairly pleased with both of them, there were still discrepancies (but these are things I’ve done wrong in setting the process up.) On the whole I’m really pleased with the linen cover of my Romance Novel. True there is no ISBN number, but that doesn’t bother me too much, people will either have to have a copy as a Christmas present (if I haven’t sent them one already) or for any other reason. I was going to try and put an ISBN on the back cover but I couldn’t get the graphic to work. Much as I would like having a Hardcover Edition, or even a Linen Wrap Edition, the pricing (at least to me) seems quite extortionate and I can live without it, or just have them printed for my own personal pleasure. C’est la vie, and sometimes you just have to live and learn.

I have had a horrible couple of days, I had plans for yesterday and today. I was going to get up, look at the various Proofreading jobs I had to do and if not finish them, work through them. What have I actually done? I’ve lain in bed watching Dad’s Army. Now you may say, well this is acceptable, but I hate feeling like this I hate having three days of feeling okay and being able to get on with things and then two days of just feeling like death warmed over. And before anyone says well it’s the results of the Coronavirus I beg to differ; I don’t actually mind the isolation, admittedly the television is appalling, but I have lots of DVDs I can fall back on – plus a subscription to CinemaParadiso which is brilliant. My writing has just gone – well one can’t even say south for the winter because it’s just gone. I open my scribbling books, look at the words and just think open ‘No, not today.’ This, one has to admit, is not good.

On the plus side, Percy seems to be settling in quite well. We still have a bit of a Parkour cat (Dotty) but she can seem quite selective in when she chooses to come in through the window. Sometimes if she goes out in the morning – and Edwin doesn’t catch her in time, she will come back in through the window (and no, we still don’t know how she does it!) Percy was sitting on the windowsill when one of Edwin’s friends looked up at him and said, “Is that your new cat? Isn’t he cute?” Now I would use many phrases to describe Percy, but ‘cute’ is not one of them.

In actual fact he’s actually a bit of a pig and he’s becoming somewhat ‘barrel -shaped’, we have tried to entice him outside, or rather Edwin has with a packet of Dreamies, but he either sits at the door or he’ll take four paces out onto the landing and then scamper back inside. So, at the moment we not going to push it, or him. Although I have to admit that it’s a huge change from where he lived before with a huge garden and great rolling fields where he could hunt to his heart’s content and I sometimes wonder if we haven’t done him a disservice. Still, maybe I’m putting anthropomorphic emotions onto an animal; after all they don’t react to situations the way we do. Edwin says if he’s cleaning himself, eating, accepting someone stroking him, not hiding under the couch (or behind the computer in the back room) and sleeping, then he’s probably all right. Still, I have to worry about something or life just wouldn’t be worth living! That’s a joke by the way.