It’s Tuesday and I am up early to move the cars off the drive before the builder badgers arrive sharp at 8 o’clock. When they do arrive I make them coffee and they get underway. and I have breakfast. I once again work on my poetry collections all morning punctuated by an expected call from a friend. Its a brief call as we catch up before she goes to work, just as she concludes the call the “new bin” delivery man arrives and gives us a replacement garden waste bin and takes the old damaged one away. I settle back to my editing poetry. I find it difficult to keep focus and I am aware that my injection site is sore and I am not feeling at my best. By late morning I am out of spoons already and decide to take a break from the laptop.
My to do list has some chores on it so I set off to change a spot light in the bathroom but cannot find my bag of replacement bulbs, I get ratty as my frustration gets the better of me. I give up the search and just order more from Amazon before having lunch. Snooker is my TV wallpaper as I start todays blog. I have an email from the Americans telling me my books are now on more platforms so I check. It turns out that I am on Amazon, IngramSpark, Kobo, Goodreads, Waterstones, and Barnes and Noble. I notice that none of the platforms have any reviews and are asking people to be the first to review the books. So if there is anyone out there who would like to write a brief review then please feel free to do so. It gets to 2 o’clock and the builder badgers move their van in anticipation of Tesco delivering over the next hour, I watch eagerly for the delivery while composing my next email to the Americans.
Tesco arrive and I do the weekly squirreling and then return to composing my email to the Americans. I am interested in the offer of an audio version of one of the books but I have reservations about the suitability of some of the material. I am suggesting that perhaps an audio book should be a later development when more material has been published. I have two more collections ready to go and invite the Americans to make an offer. Having sent the email I go to take my vitals. They turn out to be good and while I read afterwards I fall asleep. By the time I wake the builder badgers have left and I have missed a phone call from a friend and my partner had returned from work.
The evening starts with food and an email from the Americans with an offer. Its an offer I will not take up unless they drop the price. There is a meal and some chores to do as tomorrow is bin collection day and the day the builder badgers are saying they are bringing in big lorries to clear away all the debris that they have created so the decks are cleared and they are able to get on actually constructing things. One film later I am back sorting out the blog and then its time to take my night meds and get myself to bed. The early morning caused by the builders is taking its toll.
