Time for a Spring-clean.


Not the house – me. So I’m off for a facial and a head and shoulder massage to face a new decade with equanimity. The end results may not look much better but certainly make me feel good and the blissful time on the table is the nicest way to induce total relaxation.

On Monday March 8th I did a post on the use - or misuse - of babies in TV drama. As other people seemed to feel the same way I thought it only fair to go to the horse’s mouth and e-mailed the director of ‘Five Days – Toby Haynes. So far he hasn’t replied but in contrast -after another post I did ‘My Frank Opinion’ about Frank Gardner OBE on Wednesday February 17th I had an email from him yesterday thanking me for my kind comments and hoping I enjoyed his book Blood and Sand. I’m enjoying it so much MTL has excerpts read to him each night at bedtime.

I had a fright this morning when - about to finish off the last two chapters and epilogue - I found my document (if I haven’t worked on it in the last few days it disappears from Word and floats in the nether land but with the help of Windows Explorer I can find it) but could not open it and got that awful dumbbell instead of an arrow. After switching everything off and starting again with a quick prayer I was still getting a ‘not responding' message when suddenly it worked.

Everything seems to take forever these days and I suspect the computer needs a good seeing to so Tim – who sorted out my printer is coming next week to fix it. Fingers crossed.