Happy July!

My favourite month is the month of July

It's summer and sunny and hopefully dry!

It's also a month for birthdays galore!

Like mine and Charlie's and many many more!

Yay!

p.s. Gumtree turned 2 years old in June!

Happy July y'all

Dare to dream

Bloggie friends!

Rumour has it that most of the UK will have sunny warm weather this week!

Dare I paint my toenails, pack my winter boots away and bring out my summer sandals?!?!

Yes I dare!

Charlie says: I deaded the mouse.

In the meantime, my characters are demanding I put some Latin phrases in their proper context in my current story. Sigh!

p.s. anyone notice how Blogger these days puts up posts in silly font!??! Double sigh.

Have a lovely week everyone!

Dragons and elves and brollies, oh my!

They say that summer’s ending
In the middle of August they’re selling
Christmas trees in Harrods
When there’s 130 days to go yet!

Yes bloggie friends, this report reckons that the year’s UK summer is now well and truly finished.

Time to bring out the brolly!

As well as to get stuck into lots of writing competitions – thanks to lovely Patsy Collins for the info to this one!

They’re looking for fantasy short stories so y’all should enter!! Think dragons and elves and fairies, oh my! LOL! It’s free, the prize is an iPad and it’s global and in association with a big name publisher!

Charlie says: I fantasise about treats.


Happy Tuesday!

The Fall

What a weekend this promises to be!

It’s going to be a SCORCHER!

And on telly tonight: the final episode in the series of the eleventh Dr Who .

I for one will be on tenterhooks with tissues to the ready because in last week's cliffhanger there was a riotous cacophany of love, reunion, death - and a Doctor defeated.

I thought this whole series a brilliant lesson in how to write a story. Set a running theme throughout. The audience must grow to love your characters. Then in the penultimate hurdle - set these beloved characters up for a fall - not just any other fall - the situation has be so dire and the heroes have to be facing their worst nightmares and are seemingly defeated. Their fall is painful and gut-wrenching. There isn't a hope in hell. Until the final scene (I hope so anyway!).

And last but not least. Football!! Sunday at 3pm: England V Germany.

What can I say? It's a beautiful game.

Charlie says: This is a football free zone. Kindly desist all talk of penalties, the off side rule and vuvuzelas. Thank you.

Have a sunny Saturday everyone!