distraction 26 April 2008
I should have mentioned that while at Annamakerrig the most you’ll get your hands on is a newspaper of a day. There is a television in the drawing room but it is simply for watching research videos or dvds. There are no radios. There should be no distraction, and it works in that although you can check news etc online, the signal is slow and you’re more likely to spend the day working. Now I am home I am prey to far too much distraction. I have the tv on and I’ve been surfing nonsense on the net. I sometimes wonder if I have any discipline at all. The other strange thing about being away for 5 days is that I can find nothing. I did a quick tidy-up and have no recall where I put lots of the things I need now that I’m ‘back’. On the plus side the cat was thrilled to see me and lay across my arm while I was working at the kitchen table purring so hard she got to sounding strange and distorted, and a bit hilarious. The garden has gone mad in my absence and I realise that there is very little grass left out there – it’s now mostly dandelions. They are very jolly though. It’s time to tackle the weeds in the flower beds. There is much to be done that didn’t impinge while I was away, even making meals was largely dealt with by someone else. And next week is a tad of a nightmare as over the 7 days I will be be flying on 6 of them. Too many airports, as one of my friends wants to call her autobiography should she ever write one. Me? I’ll settle for finishing this latest ‘will i ever be done with it?’ novel. Though I feel the next week will be a fairly major challenge to that. I think I might start the preparation for it with plenty of sleep (and as that’s my all time favourite activity, it’ll be no hardship at all…at all…)
