japan 14 April 2010
I am really losing it – thought I had actually blogged yesterday…but hadn’t…one of my ‘elderly’ moments…and it so could have happened – as my regular visitors will know I have often surprised myself with blogging quite well and cogently while blotted.
Anyhow, it was a day of some excitement because my Mum in Law, Angela Cook has written her first book AN ALIEN IN JAPAN – a travel/memoir of her time in Japan, where she went aged 58 after realising she was in a rut. We launched it last night in a great, new, independent bookstore called The Gutter in Dublin’s Temple Bar. It was a wonderful evening and much fun and chat and wine was had. I met up with a whole load of people I hadn’t seen in ages. And I got to show off my ‘tan’. And even the white wine that got spilled on my frock (not by me, for once) has dried without staining the dress AT ALL! I’m taking it all as positive vibes and good omens and an end to the negativity that I have allowed myself to fall into a bit recently.
In that regard, I think I’d be so much better if the lovely G cat was still here – I really miss her so much every day and the big spider creatures aren’t the same by way of a pet at all (at all).
My travels begin again later – it’s time to collect the copyedit of the manuscript…EEEK! Though it’ll be good to have a last thorough sweep over the beast that is Novel Number Eight, which is called THE TIME IS NOW by the way.
Funny thing on the radio this morning – one of my favourite broadcasters, Ray D’Arcy, was answering a query about harvesting blackberries and without thinking said as kids ‘we just picked them from my granny’s bush’ – needless to say there was a silence in the studio then but for strangled sounds of everyone trying not to laugh….
