I've had a busy week on the bike despite the hidden 'help' from various weather systems!
The writing on the other hand is going in fits and starts, actually writing the new Nena is much harder than deciding on the plot so I'm somewhat behind where I wanted to be - hopefully I can get into the grove this coming week.
In the meantime you can read the next Special Request chapter here.
Okay so here it is, the next enthralling epsipode of Gaby, Weihnacht Countdown.
Just to confirm, in case you missed it, the next bit of Summer Loving is available now for kindle etc, click on the link to buy yours and help Big Closet at the same time!
Well I had to burn the midnight oil - in fact I finished the writing @ 11.30 last night, but I have now completed the next part of this 21st Gaby book - Summer Loving! It is of course available in the usual formats, follow the links to get your copy now!
I'm still wrestling with Nena's holiday snaps, I don't have the photo editing suite I used to have and what I do have is pretty useless which makes any graphics stuff more work than it need be. I will sort it out but please bear with me.
To Austria after two longish daysof travel. So today is free to do whatever so we take the gondola up the local 1700m plus mountain - pretty tame really except it was snowing at the top. Not just a dusting either as we found out when we took the short scenic walk as a) it as still snowing so blanking any views and b) we were pathfinding through several inches of the white stuff on a rocky and rooty route. That meant that Dad was struggling a bit in places as he's not brilliant on his feet but we made it none the less.
well between trips I've scored a bit of internet time so Girls on Film gets to see the light of day today.
In a mere handful of hours I'm off on my travels again - to sunny and snowy Austria for nine days of 'relaxing' after a fortnight of cycling and walking!
So enjoy this little interlude and hopefully next week you'll get a bonus posting of stuff.
Yes very bad news - well for me at any rate, I'm sat here at Europoort near Rotterdam, Holland waiting to board my ride back to Yorkshire.
Yep my short sojourn to foreign land is over, i'll be the wrong side of the water in the morning and hopefully meeting Podracer for dinner Monday night.
Nena has been with me so you will likely get words and pictures next week.
Yep, a quick heads up for all the Gabfen out there, the second part of Book 21 will be available from tomorrow in all the usual formats, Kindle, Lulu tree and digital.
I will of course post links here and there will be more free Book 15 as well.
So watch out tomorrow, be the first to read what Gaby did next!
I recently reposted one of those things on FB, i'm sure some of you saw it, the subject was essentially transgender use of toilets. Well much to my surprise, a friend i've known for about 20 years of work and leisure posted a reply saying it worried her which was quite unexpected as she's of very liberal politics and IME deeds. That in itself didn't bother me, each to their own.
Hi folks
the keen amongst you may have spotted a new Gaby chapter has been posted.
You may also have noticed that the posting is a bit, er basic.
Well my excuse is its been posted from a laptop with a mind of its own when it comes to scroll controls and getting this far has been interesting!
So enjoy the words, i'll get it properly formatted when I've got a properly user friendly interface.
Anyhow, after a two day journey we arrived in the Pyrenees, had my first view of the Med on the way and we're just enjoying some downtime before dinner.
Well i'm getting a bit jiggy on three fronts this weekend.
First is the possibility that Chris Froome will, in less than 48 hours take his 4th TdeF title. Yep, just 22km remain to affect the result - no one's daft enough to race on Sunday other than the sprinters. The race hasn't exactly been action packed, the loss of some exciting riders early on has coloured that but it certainly shouldn't detract from the achievement.
So, I was lucky enough to be involved with the surprise plot for the dormouse lady at the weekend hence my absence on Sunday - three nights in a tent, a ride around Poole Harbour and some great company made for a brill weekend.
Monday was okay and yesterday was quite productive but today - well today has been less good. Its four weeks tomorrow that Mum died, four weeks ago today the last time I spoke with her, we just made the usual noises of goodbye, nothing different to thousands of times before, I somehow feel guilty for not saying more, a simple 'love you' or parent/child kiss. But that's not my family's way and I feel that I've been robbed of that intimacy, its not going down the same with #1, we are much more huggers.
in that I've started writing Gaby book 21 and I've started riding again this week - oh and I nearly forgot, there's a new chapter of book 15, Torture uploaded here today!
Well after a few fairly miserable days the weather has picked up here and we aren't drowning the neighbourhood every time Mum is mentioned - heck, I can even sit in her chair without blubbing.
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