Weekdays are miles away from Sundays (literally and figuratively) and sitting in Salons and reading books and commenting on books! Aren’t they just. After over 500 miles in two days and visiting the lovely Wales, I am contemplating what to write to keep you happy. Yes, I’m still reading although I must admit I fell asleep after reading about 3 more pages of Malouf last night in this wonderfully quaint hotel called ‘The Speech House - go and visit, I just did not have enough time to really savour it all, it’s somewhere in the Forest of Deans in Wales. I arrived after a long hot spell in the car on motorways only to discover that the access road my sat nav took me to, was closed because of a land slide… Well, sat navs being what they are, they give up telling you to turn round and after persisting for some time on the main road it recalculated another way for me to get there, eventually. So, I did not have to spend the night at the side of the roads with the sheep and lambs that seemed to settle as night was falling. No, I had a nice meal with a colleague in The Speech House, where we worked a bit more on our presentation the next morning and where I fell asleep soundly, admittedly after half a bottle of wine, with the clear air of the forest knocking me out completely.
I found out that I had to resubmit this story for my course in a slightly different format, so I panicked a bit as I had been quite pleased with myself and being virtuous as I had already submitted it on Sunday. So I have now reformatted according to the standards set by the OU. All this has caused havoc with most of my fellow students I gather from the forum, as instructions are to be found, only this time round, in both course book and guide book. And the deadline is Friday.
And so, tomorrow (Thursday) I’m off to Sussex to do some more presentations on a completely different project, for which I am also writing the report. So you see, I do an awful lot of writing, only the creative bit is squeezed out of the picture, every so often.



