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biggs682

Itching to get back on my bike's
Location
Northamptonshire
A morning trip to a local garden centre for a coffee has been completed.

A location we were given as a place that we might be staying at a few times has finally been found.

All we had was a plot number on a new housing estate no road name etc etc.

Might get the electronic sheep out
 

Jenkins

Legendary Member
Location
Felixstowe
The early afternoon shopping trip was slightly extended to 16 miles of road and bridleways for a route that could be ridden in 5 miles. Breezy and still not what I'd call warm, but very enjoyable.

Once home, showered, shaved and coffeed I settled in for the Monaco GP. Not saying it was boring, but I had more fun sorting my collection of special edition 50p pieces. It turns out I've got £73 worth at face value and probably over £100 worth if I sold some of the more collectible ones separately.

Time for the evening's hot chocolate and possibly an earlyish night as Monday's first train leaves at 09:30 and I have trouble getting going in the mornings these days.
 
A mostly dry day here chez Casa Reynard, though weather app on laptop says it is now raining.

Slept well. Had a nice lazy day watching and listening to a lot of motor racing. Some excellent action from Oulton Park, good pointsy days for by boys (Dan Cam & Charlie Rainford). Monaco GP was like wuh... What were the folks in race control smoking?

It's been a raid-the-fridge kind of food day here.

Madam Boo really likes the Encore ocean fish.
 
Anyone who writes novels has my respect.

I've dabbled with writing throughout my life but only really short stories, poetry and my cycling blog.

I don't think I'd have the mental stamina to do a novel or other long work. The likes of Agatha Christie who published so much must be seriously dedicated to the exclusion of nearly anything else.

Guess my PhD dissertation proved to me that I had the staying power to do it. You would not want to drop *that* tome on your stockinged toes. :crazy:

Discipline is important. Sometimes you have to write when you're really not in the mood. Planning - you really do need to know where you're going. Material - you must have enough to get to the end without the need to pad out. That is true for any major writing project.

For a novel, you also need good, believable characters. They're the starting point of any story, and they're what keep moving it along.
 

biggs682

Itching to get back on my bike's
Location
Northamptonshire
Going for a ride
 

Jenkins

Legendary Member
Location
Felixstowe
Good morning from a very damp, grey and occasionally drizzly Suffolk.

Coffee has been had and the overnight bag has been placed by the front door ready for today's outing to see Aldous Harding at Albert Hall in Manchester. Thanks to work on the Transpennine upgrade, there's no TPE fast services, so it's the slower Northern stopping service from Leeds meaning a later arrival and an earlier departure on Tuesdy.
 
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