It’s been a week of ‘Big Rocks, first’ before the floodgates of everything else swept in.

I started early Monday and ensured that all the thoughts and brainstorming about the Camp Nanno project were recorded and filed – I am learning how to do this ‘putting together’ the story all over again. It’s a long time since I put a new work together as I have been forcing myself to stay with the series rewrite and self-edits.

I had some form filling and in-town appointments this week – I am still in and out to the opticians to get new glasses sorted as there has been some back and forth on that as I get used to varifocals. It is all getting brighter and easier to see, so I don’t mind.

I emptied the last boxes of old books from the plastic containers in the small shed onto the shelves in the former weaving studio. The books stink beyond the pleasant wiff of ‘Old Books’, but maybe summer in the summer house will air them a bit.

The part of my life that was taken up with riding has been taken over entirely with art practice, and Rufus is retired but still strikes a pose for me now and then. Art helps me unload the worries and anxieties that I lug about and gives me an escape. It also provides me with a source of escape and inspiration when I can’t get out or away from here. I’ve been struggling this week to keep bright, but I have shown up when I have had to in a timely fashion and done the best I can do to make any mistakes I have made right.

Art does not improve my physical fitness or reduce my isolation. However, photo shoots at Abbotsbury are a weekly walking session now, and  now familiar faces are getting recognised as Regulars.

I will finish the Nanno Project where I aimed to be – with a regular writing practice established.

May will have 3 Bank Holidays in it ( three long weekends with short weeks), and Gordon will probably be around – if I get a day and an hour here and there in the week, that is good enough. Next Friday, he has to have another tooth out, so he will be uncomfortable for weeks to come trying to work.

MY focus will be on the daily early morning writing development and on planting the veg and few flowers that we grow.