Another at home day today. I’d already decided we’d not have much going on as I wanted to avoid driving and for once we’ve all been fine being housebound. I think nearly 2 weeks away from the joys of things with plugs and toys which take up room and pets who can be cooed over and cuddled have given them novelty status.
So, more washing, more dvd watching (today was Ice Age 2 and Alice in Wonderland (the latest borrowed from work)), DSing, bedroom tidying which they did as collaborative works together, we put the quails out for the day and had to rescue them a few times, I made a couple of phonecalls (one to arrange to give blood, one to return several of Julie’s calls and catch up with her) and did the many clicking exercise of downloading other people’s photos from flickr, loading them back up to a different website and then arranging them to create a photobook. Hopefully the results will be with me early next week in time to present to the recipients next weekend :).
I also finished reading two books, both of which had me crying – Alone on a wide, wide sea to Davies and Scarlett and the lastest Jane Green which I’d not realised in advance was of the subject matter it was and brings my total number of books about women dying of cancer to four in recent times. Sob 🙁 I hate that the chick lit authors who have ‘grown up’ with me from writing about new relationships and new parenthood at times I was going through those things all seem to have moved on to divorce, infertility or premature death these days 🙁 – do we not have happy endings in our fiction once we pass 35?
It’s been a very low key week and certainly not one I could repeat too often, particularly as I had various online things I wanted to catch up with so haven’t been particularly present for Davies and Scarlett, but I think we’ve all quite enjoyed pottering about at home for a change.
Cancer is such a real part of most of our lives that it’s bound to impact on writers.
Comment by Roslyn — 24 July 2010 @ 8:57 am