Its Friday and its a special day as well as being hot. I wake early and find an email telling me the fourth book in the Cancer Years series is up and available on Amazon. The collaboration between me and Ruler’s Wit, the publishers, has been a really good experience and it’s such a relief to have the new collection done and out there. The fact that my initials, RW, are the same as on the Ruler’s Wit logo is sheer coincidence. You can find them here: Ruler’s Wit

Before I can do anything though I have to get ready to go to the GP surgery to have my pre oncology bloods done. As I am putting the last touches to myself, all the things like phone, cards, keys and the all important blood form stowed in various pockets a friend rings me. So I walk and talk my way to the surgery chatting to my friend who is on her way to a funereal of an old colleague, whom she used to work with in a therapeutic community. I used to work at the same hospital but cannot recall the person whose funeral it is. On reaching the surgery I book in and then have a very short break before my usual nurse calls me in to take my bloods. This nurse is so good that I am in and out of the clinical room before the record on Radio 2 in the waiting room has had time to finish. I am able to resume my telephone conversation with my friend on the walk home until she arrives at the funeral site. It was good to be able to have such a long chat with her before we went off on our variously filled days.

Once home I of course set about getting copies of the new book and tidying up some editorial stuff. I’ve created a series page on Amazon so the Cancer Years books become a series and can be presented as such. crucially I finished paying Ruler’s Wit for their services and, just for good measure started a conversation about an audio collection drawn from what has been published, it could be fun and certainly a learning experience.

There is a mound of clothes that I sort out before I do more poem admin until my eldest daughter produces a paper and I am able to set to work on the crossword puzzles sat on an increasingly hot patio. My partner joins me, back from the gym, so I fix lunch and then start to draft the blog. I am part way through this when I realise I have drugs to collect from the village pharmacy and so abandon my drafting and go to the chemists.

Home again and I write a brief LinkedIn article saying briefly how good its been working with Ruler’s Wit team and of course putting in a picture of the book. I shall also put something in the tags to this blog as well just to see if it makes any difference. M evening is likely to be all filler until midnight or there about when the results of my bloods will be posted. I am nervous about these as they may sway the oncology team one way or another. I am hoping they will just shrug and say “carry on” but until Wednesday I will be on edge, despite my new shed coming on Monday and the poetry Stanza face to face tomorrow, I have still to choose what to take if anything. So for now its waiting on the bloods and Moving On as best as I can.