Lockdown Craftiness…

 My partner and I decided to spend the winter escaping the virus in the relative safety of Crete and rented two doors down from her sister in Mavrikiano, Elounda. barbara and Virginia plunged into knitting and eventually the itch to stitch got to much and I purchased a double-ended crochet needle from one of the knitting shops in nearby Agios Nikolaos before the lockdown was clamped down even tighter than in the UK. 

I have only made some samplers to explore new stitches in Tunisian Crochet which is my thing and to stitch with alternating colours on the pairs of rows. I can give more details if anyone is interested…


The Big Reveal…

 Last year, I only discovered the A2Z 2020 Challenge on the first of April – the start day and had to wing it with the theme of the unfolding Covid 19 Pandemic. This year I have had time to think about it in advance and have to make it not just a 26 day blogging challenge, but a 26 day novel completing challenge…


Some years ago, laid up after a hip replacement [I am not as old as that suggest but I have just reached pension age 🙁   ] I awoke in the middle of the night from a dream which I knew was meant to be the start of a novel. I immediately dictated all I could recall into my phone and began writing the next day.

I confess, I already had a novel on the go which has languished for more of the 15 years since its inception than not. Whilst still actively thinking and reaching and very occasionally writing a bit of the first novel – darting hither and thither within its structure, the second novel – “Train Wreck” – has been a start at the beginning and work through in order affair. Still, there has been a lot of time when life got in the way of writing and so I have decided to try and complete it with the impetus of the 2021 Challenge.

To comply with the A to Z part of the Challenge, I am going to invent an aspect of my novel’s world(s) – for it is a science-fiction in a thriller format – the Train Wreck is a whodunnit! But I shall then publish a chapter a day – luckily I have a headstart of twelve which gives me more time to write the balance…

And if anything else demands musing on, I will tack that on too…

Needless to say – Feedback would be most welcome!

I will aim to visit as many other blogs as I can – its going to be busy!