Here’s a photo of the house I was talking about yesterday. I took a few snaps coming up the steps that day, and this was the last one I took before turning right and entering Chickenland, never to be seen again…
It looks like today is going to be another sunny and calm day, though so far, I’ve only looked out of the window. I must pop up the road at some point and have a look at the state of play. We’ve got piles of cut stone along the side of the lane, ready to be put down as the lane is resurfaced. I think some of it up and around the corner has already been done, and I’m expecting the drills and mixers to start up down our end any day now. It looks like the lane will be paved in the way other paths were done years ago as the improvement schemes continue. The main road has, I am told, also been tarmacked all the way across the island now (?), which will be a great improvement on what was there before. The Kali Strata, of course, remains as it has remained for the last 100 + years.
Last thing today is a book push. The biography of my godfather, ‘Bobby, a life Worth living’ is being publicised in a promotion that covers historical fiction, time-travel, women’s literature, and memoirs, which is what Bobby kind of is, because I tried to keep the text in the style of his storytelling. The book’s done reasonably well since I launched it last year, though I’m still waiting to hear back from Shirley Bassey who is the only remaining-alive person from Bobby’s past and briefly mentioned in the book. I sent her a copy out of courtesy, but can only assume it arrived. There are plenty of other names and historical incidents mentioned in the book, and many other books in the promo, where most of the covers definitely have a ‘written for the enjoyment of women’ look to them. See for yourself by clicking the banner below:
