Well, what an interesting day!
It was Kai's first 'non-uniform' day: for £1 the kids could wear anything they liked (within reason, and as long as the footwear was sensible and they kept to the school's jewellery regs), and the money would be added to John Cabot's charities fund. Today they were being urged to 'think pink' as the charity of choice was Breast Cancer Awareness. Heh. We have
nothing pink in the house. (Well, except for the hot pink carrier bag I'm using to collect things destined for the next parcel to Lutra.) However, Kai checked with his teacher, and the little red accents on the grey-blue Oriental Dragon shirt he wanted to wear counted ([grin] yeah, right!), so he trotted off in said shirt, black jeans and his black denim jacket, looking very snazzy. Quite enjoyed the day too.
And now he has two blissful weeks off. We've organised a couple of things - Ken's planning to take him to a car boot sale tomorrow, he's going to help me in the garden on Sunday, we're probably going to the cinema next Tuesday, and next Sunday Horfield Organic Community Orchard are having an open day, with tastings and the sale of produce, so we're off to that - and I'm hoping we can meet up with Kim, and Ruth, Jun and Yumi if they've finished the house move, sometime over the fortnight.
I had my head down getting a few odds and sods of client stuff done when Denis the carpenter turned up with the bodies of the two wall cupboards he's making for us, for me to paint ready to have the 'glass' doors (only he's using clear plastic for safety sake) added next time he visits. Guess what
I'm doing tomorrow - and next week, as they need primer then two coats of gloss each...
Settled back down to carry on, and the phone rang - our agent to let us know that one of the new book proposals we'd sent her has not one but
two publishers interested, one of which seems to be pretty firm (firm enough to be talking about delivery dates (60K words by end of May next year), illustrations, advances and royalties!) So - fingers crossed and not counting Britannias til the contract's in our hands, as usual - we (read I, it's mostly my baby) will be working on the 16th book this winter. It's one I really want to write, as well, so I'm quietly looking forward to it. Hopefully we'll know for sure next week.
The reissue of the previous book in a different format looks like it might go ahead too. That's not confirmed yet though.
And finally, I was able to sort out a fairly major client site problem in 20 minutes this evening, which I'm quite pleased about. All in all this has been a good day. But then, Friday the 13
th usually is, here.
I think I can take tonight off and do something silly. I feel the urge to rattle off something starring Gunner (from Zap) and... I dunno. The Flaming Prince, perhaps, that should be amusing...
Back to the loom!
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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