Rise And Shine

After feeling so ill in recent days it was wonderful to wake up this morning refreshed and raring to go. Up at 6.30 the morning routine of feeding the cats and making a pot of tea whilst listening to the radio was soon in full swing.

An hour later I announced my presence to the Twitterverse...

It's 7.30 a.m. & the Yellow Room is open. On the menu right now is a pot of Earl Grey, Radio 4 & preparing bills & invoices.

Exactly one hour later there was this update...

Invoice mode completed. Creative listening mode about to be engaged. destination: musical excitement circa 1973!

That was a reference for writing up the show notes to this fabbo concert...

now available at DGMLive.

The plan today was to write a review and then, mid-afternoon get underway with my novel. Novel? What novel ? Well, I have several unfinished novels sitting on various hard-drives in states of being that veer from being unfinished all the way back to barely started.

For reasons which I don’t fully understand on Saturday I signed up to the NaNoWriMo event. A few Twitterpals had done the same and so, as proof of how easily led I am, I signed up. What I like about the whole NaNoWriMo ethos is that during one month you hit the word count and end up with 50,000 words.

What has always stumped me in the past was my inability to plough on without editing as I go. NaNoWriMo states you should forget the editing until after you’ve completed the month and have what is in effect your first draft.

So having signed up, yesterday wrote 591 words which is well short of the daily target of 1600 words but I figured I’d catch up today. Well, that was the plan until my sister rang and asked if I fancied a trip up to Warkworth.

Needless to say I was in the car like a flash.

A walk along the Coquet at Warkworth...










A lovely afternoon walk accompanied by a lingering winter sun, a cold wind rustling amongst the trees, and a sense that the seasons had turned. A good catch as far as spotting wildlife goes as well. Lesley informs me that the birds above are a cormorant and a heron respectively. Chaffinch and pie-eyed wagtails (I may have got that wrong) were also observed but not pictured.

Time to head back into Warkworth and home...




Just outside of Amble we pulled over to take a look at the rising moon...

and take a last look at Warkworth before heading back to Whitley Bay in time for me to make the evening meal for the troops at home...