Week Ending 29th April - Shed Damage dominates the week!

The weeks activities were dominated by the unfortunate sequence of events with regards to my writing shack in the garden. I interrupted my Facebook updates with an unimportant "tongue-in-cheek" news bulletin.... "Torquay Shed Roof Survives the Night"; following the meteor strike, the tarpaulin has held well and the water level in the bucket has not increased... we'll keep you posted and stay tuned in to this channel for more Shed updates! The meteor was actually a fallen rock from the cliff that stands imposing at the rear of my property and the poor old shed sits directly beneath it. Any rainy weather tends to disturb the odd stone and down it comes... and this occasion right through the roof. The posting on my profile time line attracted a very humorous response from some of my fellow "dry-sense-of-humoured" FB friends. I find it funny how such unaffected topics such as SHEDS can muster up a furor of interest. Whereas boring stuff like info on my very important book activities doesn't seem to conjure much interest. It's a funny old world.... ramble, ramble! The middle of the week was spent writing... Hurray! Yes writing... something I happen to enjoy and the thing that contributes to my livelihood in a very monstrous way! Another few thousand words found their way into the third Bradley Baker installment and the Pyramids of Blood is coming along just dandy! Really excited about this book and I can't wait for it to be published in September so I can share another adventure with what is now a pretty impressive legion of Bradley Baker fans. More emails to schools and follow up calls for the Torbay Literacy Competition filled the rest of my time. The lack of Waterstones events at the moment has taken the shine off the public awareness campaign for Bradley, but I need the break from the stores to get everything else on course to secure a successful year ahead for the new boy hero. I issued another SHED UPDATE this morning: What's going on with this weather??? First a meteor strike hits Torquay and happens to land directly on my shed roof... Now Hurricane Humpty Dumpty is powering through the bay and has ripped the tarpaulin off! Not impressed... spent half the day battling through the perfect storm to reattach temporary covering. Have you ever tried to form a perfect folded square out of a gigantic piece of tarpaulin that was originally used as a ground sheet for moon base alpha... with the wind howling round your lugs? Brings back memories of certain camping holiday! "Reduce the size of the tarpaulin!" I hear shouts from cyber world... now that would be far too easy :) Too much shed stuff... Promise to change the subject next week. See you then, David