decorations 7 January 2009
I have left my Christmas tree up for the moment. Basically, I love looking at it and I didn’t see it while I was in Minsk so I feel I need a few more days. The builders will be back next week (ARGH) so it’ll be back in its box by then but right now it’s just gorgeous and so it stays exactly where it is as it makes me happy to look at it.
I have had good news from a regular in the US re the virgin olive oil bombshell – well, it’s probably truer to say she has given me information that I WANT TO BELIEVE. Mares (for it is she) says that I reported an urban myth and that the only change the virgin olive oil goes through when you heat it is that it loses some of its fabulous flavour. I like the taste of the stuff so I will probably just keep using it as I have done all along. It should be pointed out that it doesn’t go with everything in a frying/cooking way – for example The Mushroom is a lad that needs to be fried in butter, I think, and olive oil is less good, no matter how much garlic you use…(oh yes, already I can feel the slew of emails being typed out telling me how wrong I am – Bring Them ON)
We take to the floor tomorrow and try to put another, different shape on the play OCTOBER (having gone through it a tad forensically textwise). And suddenly a whole week will be gone…onwards…onwards…
And tomorrow my latest novel MISSING YOU ALREADY is officially published. I’ll sneak into a bookshop at lunchtime to have a wee look at it, trying to look nonchalant but nervous and delighted all at once – OOOOH! I hope you all enjoy it.
