What’s happening in my world, this week:
- Work: writing M&B #83 (cardiac unit, marriage of convenience book); updating my website one backlist book per day (slipped a bit with that as am up to my eyes); faffing about with my Big Book; and doing the #RomanceAuthorChallenge over at Instagram
- Reading: Juliet Bell, The Heights (utterly brilliant reworking of Wuthering Heights and I wish I’d written it); CL Taylor, The Escape (you owe me sleep, Cally Taylor!); Kate Field, The Magic of Ramblings (very sweet); Kerry Barrett, The Forgotten Girl (enjoyed – plot was quite close to an idea I had, some years back, so it was nice to see how it was handled)
- Looking forward to: Taming of the Shrew on Sunday at the Globe (one of my daughter’s A level set texts and the only performance where it’s not chosen by the audience so I can guarantee it! Not my favourite play and it always sends me into a massive feminist rant; but I am looking forward to taking Chloe to her first production at the Globe); and I’m really, really, really looking forward to my research trip to Florence on Monday – our first ever visit.
- Workouts: dogwalking, and one session at the gym
- Planet Kate last week: Monday and Tuesday, new boiler installed; Tuesday night, Scott Matthews at Norwich Arts Centre (excellent – also one of my fave venues in the city because there’s no barrier, just the edge of the stage, so it’s really intimate); Weds-Fri, working like mad; Saturday, barbecue with the neighbours (and the oven decided to pack up, arrgh! Luckily the top oven still worked so I could finish cooking the chicken properly before putting it on the barbecue for flavour – but I need to sort out a repair next D week); Sunday, walk at the Great Wood in Blicking to see the bluebells, and they were utterly glorious (that was a research trip, but it was a nice one where husband, daughter and dog could join me).
- Fave pic from the last week: three from Blickling because it was just glorious. Although the car park was really full, the woods are so large that you have space to enjoy them and the birdsong.
Kate, your work ethic astounds me. Good luck with oven repairs. I’m jealous of the trip to Florence. Pics from Blicking are gorgeous.