I'm really, really near the end now. Only three chapters to go. Unfortunately, the "little deers" still have the capacity to completely derail my time and energy.

Still, at least they now all have a home they can call their own.

My daughter-in-law has found, to her amazement, a reasonably good-paying job to the west of London, and plans to move to an apartment in Swindon had to be hastily cancelled. She of course has promptly taken one of the girls to Russia to visit her father, leaving my son to fit out the new apartment - which means we get to look after the other girl. (I get to help father as well.)

They are almost 20 months old now. They are growing rapidly now, both physically and mentally. We're getting almost-sentences and she is comfortable playing on her own, without her sister to get in her way. Food times, on the other hand, are almost always extremely messy.

It does mean that someone has to be on hand at all times and that usually means me. Now, don't get me wrong, she is delightful (grits teeth) and very loving but it means that I can't do much else at the same time. Even making a coffee gets... interesting.

Which means that, frustratingly, I have three chapters in my head which I am itching to write down and post. Most of the content of these three chapters has been determined many years ago and I just need to have enough time to myself to actually do it.

...Which doesn't help when my muse spontaneously thinks up another whole story for me to write. My mind has been stuck on a tropical island (no, not this one) for the last week or so and it is getting frustrating. That story should be 5-6 chapters and I will write it out completely before posting any of it.

So, I would like to finish SEE if I can before the end of the year, but of course it will be the holiday season with lots of distractions. I'm doing my best and I haven't forgotten my loyal readers (both of you), but as always Real Life^TM takes precedence. Please bear with me.

Penny