grow your own 21 November 2008
Well, I hear from Mary in the US that it takes 5 – 6 months to grow a liver so that’s good to know and puts a time frame on things. I am inclined to agree with Joyce in Scotland, though, that growing a new brain might be a priority for us all. I’m losing the noggin cells at an alarming rate and regularly have to jettison information because I need to recycle the few working bits that I have still under my control to use for new info. It didn’t help that one of the characters in my next book, MISSING YOU ALREADY, has Alzheimer’s because I know far too much about it now and am convinced I have a bit of it – more some days but that could also be put down to a tad too much wine from time to time. Anyhow, a new brain would be grand but I have the feeling it’s not as simple as just deciding to grow one – I’m going to need a clutch of scientists and a laboratory, probably, and with the length of time it’s taking to do the house up I don’t think I’ll be building anything more for quite some time. It looks like I may just have to put up with what I have, physically and mentally, for another while…
The scaffolding came off the front today and the house looks like itself again…from the outside, that is. Inside is still a mysterious mess. And, while I’m at it, I’d always heard that water gets into everything and ‘will always find a way’ – can I suggest something that would give water a run for its money? DUST! Dust gets EVERYWHERE! Dust, I tells yez, it’s the new water.
