SueJEaton

Tuesday has it in for me. Nothing ever goes to plan on a Tuesday.

Yesterday’s day plan A.

1. Take down the Christmas decorations and put them away
2. Go to the tip
3. Have a bonfire

Nothing major. I don’t go mad with the decorations preferring natural foliage.

I got up to a leaking boiler. Next to the boiler are 40+ full boxes of books. It meant moving at least the ones nearest the water. Only 6 boxes. Fortunately the leak was easily remedied and only the bottom layer of books nearest the leak were spoilt.

A connection was loose and I did that myself but the morning was gone and the days are short.

Plan B. Do I go to the tip? The tip is up hill via a winding lane. The car’s playing up and there’s a lot of snow.

Plan C. I do take down most of the lower decorations with the cat’s help but the thought of climbing steps when I ache from shifting books prompts me to give up and have a bonfire.

Not a total loss. There was also a couple of silver-linings. I found the dog’s tennis balls we’d been searching for before she left for her holidays and I used up most of the Christmas kitchen roll on mopping up.

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I like Philip K Dick’s works of science fiction. Strange dystopian futures.

Take Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? In the story a catastrophic disaster has wiped out many of the animals and people have no pets. That is unless they can afford to buy electronic animals.

What did I see on the news the other night? Robopets. Robotic cats and dogs for people who are not allowed real animals for whatever reason. The news item showed residents in a care home enjoying stroking and hugging these toys. Which was lovely.

Me? I thought of Philip Dick and his bleak vision of the future.

Ian Pearsall, who I mentioned in a previous blog suggested I visit TwoDoors Studio in a nearby town. Lorna and Ruth who own the shop love to promote local artists of all talents.

I wandered along to an exhibition of Ian’s work which opened a couple of weeks ago. It’s still on and well worth a visit if you’re in the vicinity of Crewe Road, Alsager.

I met Lorna, who was delightful and happy to take some of my books to sell and yesterday I spent a lovely afternoon with Ruth.

If you’re looking for presents, birthday, Christmas, thinking-of-you or anniversary then you should definitely visit. It has something for everyone and remember you are supporting local artists who have taken the time to create wonderful keepsakes with skill and love.

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Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together.
I was a bit disappointed that my novella was rejected by one publishing house. (It’s still out there, so here’s hoping.) Rather than wallow in the disappointment I have decided to do what my beta reader suggested and extend it into a full novel. Originally I was going to write a series exploring how the aliens were thwarted but am now looking at tightening up the work and including it in the original.
Can you imagine my delight when researching the science to find that what I had already written fits perfectly with my ideas of a solution? Way to go.
It also fits with problems of global warming which I think makes the book a commercial prospect. We shall see.

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