Good morning all -- Happy Sunday.

Those of you who follow my tales of Julina know now that she is about to interact heavily with characters created by Penny. My next chapter or two are in the final stages; they are outlined, the next one all but written completely, but not yet finalised and proofed, and so on. They will take us through another mad dash as the rains loom ever closer. A new Anthology (an increasingly obvious misnomer hanging over from the early chapters) shall cover events in the rains, and possibly after.

I wish to place on record that this world created by Penny has made me actually write and I have previously shouted my thanks to Panny from the rooftops for providing such a wonderful world in which to contribute to the Anmarian theme.

But now I have an added reason to sing her praises. She has generously donated her time to help me get the 'voices' of her characters more in keeping with her vision of them. So I thank you most profusely once again, Ms. Lane!

I must, at this point, point out that both Penny and myself are about to enter phases in our private lives which involve great amounts of driving and thus some extended periods away from our keyboards.

For myself, next Thursday I drive again to England, returning here to Switzerland on the 20th. Then a week later, guests arrive from the USA and we shall do a car tour of Northern Italy and Eastern France. Then they go back to Minneapolis and then I shall drive back to England once more, for a week this time. Then in July, I finally make the move to England permanent, returning only in early August to pick up Di as she finishes working on the 3rd of August.

So I hope to have some time to continue to relate Julina's adventures to you, but I trust you shall understand that maybe the frequency shall be forced to relapse back to last year's low levels when I was slyly waiting for the Milsy tale to begin to catch up with Julina.

Just to reiterate the point, as Penny herself said in a recent comment, readers should be aware that the Eriana tale was taking place whilst the Royal Party were up in Blackstone and much of the Milsy stuff was before then even. Julina, remember, left Blackstone after the Royal Party had started their slow journey south. As soon as the rains start, then I think you will be able to relate all this a little more easily.

I thank you for your indulgence and wish you all a great Sunday.

Have fun

Julia