Failure to Garden

I've got a load of plants that I daren't put out in the garden in case they are swept away in the water. The rain is pretty relentless. Regardless, if it doesn't ease up soon, I'm going to have to plant them in the rain. The garden looks pretty poor, but given the sort of year I've had so far, I'll take it.

I had another telephone call about bear's health today. This time it was sorting out specialists. It was about something we had forgotten about, which is sort of a relief. Bear is doing okay, but he's not always taking codeine when he could, which is sort of worrying and sort of reassuring. 

Today is Thursday. I have to remind myself of that on a regular basis. I have tried to establish that I go out and do my own thing on a Thursday, but it feels a little inappropriate with the all the restrictions around. I'm trying to push my comfort zone, though, so I went to an Aldi that I hadn't visited before and that is tricky to get to on the more usual routes. I managed it! I also think I'll be going there more as it's nearer than the one I usually go to, it's much bigger with a bigger car park, I also go past a Lidl and a very nice farm shop and it's good for me to get the driving practice. 

I picked up some good stuff. Tonight we had roast tomato and vegetable soup with cumin and tumeric. It was spicier than I expected, but I got some large bags of spices from the world food aisle, and I think they are fresher and have more vigour than the little jars. It helped warm me up, but I still feel like I should put the central heating on. Tomorrow is looking like it could have curry.

Writing stuff - lots and lots of writing stuff! Some extremely lovely people are helping me out and I should be getting another interview published within a week, which is amazing! I'll like to what comes out, but it's someone very involved in the steampunk world, so I feel somewhat overawed (even though she is awesome!). So I'm doing my best to get things perfect, and link things together and check things and I have far too many tabs open.

For those interested, I've self published the story that got me entangled in Steampunk, Deepest Desire, the tale of a gallant aether pilot and his adventure in the Balkans on the edge of the Ottoman Empire. All the details are on my writing blog, here, with a little background on how I came to write it and links to the ebook on Amazon where it should be less than £1 and to Booksprout, where you can pick up an ebook review copy for free. I think my writing blog is going to become very busy, so I may just link to it more. 

Hugs and good health to all.