Updated: 07 February 2008
I’m still standing behind this hotel bar in France, waiting for my holiday. I have vague plans for driving to the Loire valley in April, to re-visit some of the places I knew when I was a student. I’ve been writing about those times, and hope to add more significant detail to my account.
What moves me and gets me through the day are 7 main interests. These are TENNIS, PHOTOGRAPHY, BOOKS, FAMILY, HOME, PSYCHOLOGY and FRANCE.
I write creatively some days, which is something I’ve always wanted to do, but never found the time. Now that I have some, see the beginnings on a sub-page of BOOKS, called STORIES, and also on a sub-page of FRANCE, called A YEAR IN FRANCE.
I write creatively some days, which is something I’ve always wanted to do, but never found the time. Now that I have some, see the beginnings on a sub-
Getting up in the morning can be a problem, but not one I suffer from fortunately. I've always been able to wake easily without an alarm, and am generally up shortly after 6.00 am. I don't go downstairs for quite a while. I start the day in my small book-lined study and write three pages of thought s and ideas, longhand and in ink, while I drink the first cup of tea of the day, made in a teapot. Classic FM plays quietly in the background. I feel very lucky.
The dark days of winter, even with the amount of sunshine we get in the East, are days to spend indoors. What I’ve been doing may be boring to some, but it absorbs me. I have a considerable number of books and have begun to catalogue them. I had thought of days of typing titles and authors but it’s not like that. With a splendid piece of software I found on the internet from www.collectorz.com, I am able to type in the ISBN number, or even scan the bar-code. That way I download very quickly all of the book’s details, including a photo of the front cover. Now that’s what I call clever!
I can do the same for all of my CDs, a much smaller number than my books.
