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I am proud of this picture.

I took it when I went out to Tesco this evening. Bear was complaining that he couldn't find the garlic in his local Tesco, so I thought that I'd share a pic with him. I'm proud because I think that this is the first time I've left the house properly in at least a fortnight, and the odd wander to the bin or to support strimming doesn't really count for much either. We're coming up to the time of year when it's hard for me to do anything, so I forced myself to go out. 

It was late, and the windscreen had already started to get a little icy, but it wasn't a bad run and I need to keep pushing myself. Though I probably won't go out much this week as the weather is looking cold with a non-zero chance of snow. I absolutely do not approve of snow.

I've been concentrating on writing for the last week, more in Writing stuff below, but I've decided that from today, I need to try and find some sort of balance and motivation. Besides, it's only a month before bear comes back from university for the winter break in a month and I want to have the house nice for him. 

If I've understood the weather forecasts correctly, this week is going to be freezing, then next week will be warmer, so I'll get back to the garden next week after the cold has killed off some of the weeds. I guess it's a good time for me to clear things out. I also need to crack on with the knitting as, did I mention? it's cold!

Writing stuff - As I mentioned, I'm taking part in the Writathon with Royal Road. The first big milestone and to get a mention, I had to hit 25,000 words by midnight on 15th November, 9 days after I started. I made it by ten minutes. I spent most of yesterday sitting around in a daze. The words are added in chapters, and each time I completed a chapter for Royal Road, I loaded it onto my writing blog. However I haven't put it on all at once or the notifications would be going crazy and, besides, to make my life easier, I decided that I would schedule them, with a new chapter each week on a Monday. I thought that it would take care of my commitment to posting fiction on Mondays. Once I finish this challenge, I probably won't have to write new stuff for Monday for a while. So far, I'm up to the middle of next February. 

Anyway, this week's instalment for the writing blog is here, but you can read the whole 25,000 so far on Royal Road here. 

Hugs and good health to all.