Angel Whispers

Wet Wet Wet

The only creatures that would appreciate our June weather are ducks as far as I know. I have heard rumours a month's rain has fallen in two days this week and it's still precipitating. Flaming June indeed. It has flattened and left some of my summer plants waterlogged, but on the plus side I won't need a watering can for the foreseeable future.

Dennis and I suffer from cabin fever, so it's been a bad week for both of us. Dennis tends to think it's my fault when it rains and gets grumpy when I don't switch it off so he can go out. I just get grumpy. On the plus side, I have had one really good afternoon out with a very special friend, despite the weather conditions. Thanks again.

I now have one and a half cats and a fly. How come these stupid creatures can find their way in through the smallest of gaps, but cannot find their way out through a wide open door? I refuse to kill any creature deliberately and also will not get emotionally involved with any more flies after Guy the Fly the third drowned in my orange juice several years ago. I remain aloof while attempting to encourage it to go outside, but wherever I go it's still following me.

Preparations are beginning as regards the trip to Thailand which seemed a long way off, but now isn't. I have the itinerary, which exhausts me by simply reading it and I've had a Tetanus injection which has left my left arm feeling like I've been continuously lifting weights for a month.

Work on my proposed book is virtually at a standstill as I'm not happy with the way it's developing. It's too factual, flat and reads like a newspaper report. My thoughts now are most of the story is here in blog entries going back years. Why should I need to rewrite it? By picking out relevant entries, adding and detracting, altering bits here and there it could tell the whole story. Research into blog memoirs informs me it's not a good idea but to me, the facts, characters, humour and trauma are all conveyed more sincerely and accurately as blog entries. What say you? All advice appreciated.