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jemck at 02:17pm on 11/11/2007
jemck at 02:17pm on 11/11/2007Updating here didn't happen on Friday on account of me being in Nottingham to chat to the Solaris team about the new series and oh, quite a lot of other stuff. Good meeting, most satisfactory. No, I'm not saying any more, not on account of being tiresomely secretive but just at this stage, so many things could potentially shift and morph somehow before publication, that it seems pointless to post stuff I'll have to amend later. So, overall, let's be content with 'good meeting'.
Oh, and Warhammer World is just awesome!
Saturday was spent doing lots of domestic type admin, haircuts, banking, boring shopping, plus stuff associated with elder son heading off on a geography residential field trip first thing this morning. Like finding out he only has two pairs of non-school trousers that still fit and no hard-wearing footwear that does. At 14 plus a few months, he's now pretty much 6 feet tall with size 12 feet. And still growing like a weed. Only he isn't weedy. Yesterday's new trousers were a 36 waist and 30 inside leg and the lighweight sweatshirty-thing he took a fancy to had to be an XL. My baby.
Having seen him off on the coach this morning, me and younger son headed for the local Remembrance Day parade, since he's a scout and thus on duty. Husband is unfortunately having to work today - insane/ongoing major project coming up to another of its deadlines. Good turnout as always, both in terms of general public and the organisations laying wreaths, including local dignitaries, twin town representatives, police/fire services, veterans' organisations and local youth organisations like various cadets, scouts and boys/girls brigades. The town band played and local churches' priests/ministers shared the duties for a simple and dignified act of remembrance. Do still see a good number of WWII veterans parading hereabouts. And we're within striking distance of a number of RAF bases so there are quite a lot of people with family and friends in the services. Whatever one might think of why a country might be sending its personnel into harm's way, supporting those personnel and their families is just common decency.
So, shall take a bit of time this afternoon to read something completely un-work-related and then crack on with the revisions to Straws in the Wind tomorrow. Very pleased with the progress I made last week, both in terms of quality and quantity. And the aforementioned good meeting on Friday prompted some additional ideas for that whole process, so looking foward to getting to work tomorrow.
Oh, and Warhammer World is just awesome!
Saturday was spent doing lots of domestic type admin, haircuts, banking, boring shopping, plus stuff associated with elder son heading off on a geography residential field trip first thing this morning. Like finding out he only has two pairs of non-school trousers that still fit and no hard-wearing footwear that does. At 14 plus a few months, he's now pretty much 6 feet tall with size 12 feet. And still growing like a weed. Only he isn't weedy. Yesterday's new trousers were a 36 waist and 30 inside leg and the lighweight sweatshirty-thing he took a fancy to had to be an XL. My baby.
Having seen him off on the coach this morning, me and younger son headed for the local Remembrance Day parade, since he's a scout and thus on duty. Husband is unfortunately having to work today - insane/ongoing major project coming up to another of its deadlines. Good turnout as always, both in terms of general public and the organisations laying wreaths, including local dignitaries, twin town representatives, police/fire services, veterans' organisations and local youth organisations like various cadets, scouts and boys/girls brigades. The town band played and local churches' priests/ministers shared the duties for a simple and dignified act of remembrance. Do still see a good number of WWII veterans parading hereabouts. And we're within striking distance of a number of RAF bases so there are quite a lot of people with family and friends in the services. Whatever one might think of why a country might be sending its personnel into harm's way, supporting those personnel and their families is just common decency.
So, shall take a bit of time this afternoon to read something completely un-work-related and then crack on with the revisions to Straws in the Wind tomorrow. Very pleased with the progress I made last week, both in terms of quality and quantity. And the aforementioned good meeting on Friday prompted some additional ideas for that whole process, so looking foward to getting to work tomorrow.