I read 'Tom's Midnight Garden' for the first time when I was eight and I read it for the second time today just a few weeks shy of my forty eighth birthday. I sobbed at eight and I sobbed forty years later; I had hoped for a more nuanced mature response. Oh well.

The teaching has been Ok though I still have a lot of prep to do for the Kingston course.I think the students are happy but I don't know.

The good news was that my agent liked my book, though I have to expand the end. I would do it immediately but I have to get this reading list together which I suppose has to be done before I go back to my real work:(

In other news drains look like being an expensive problem and my dryer is still not fixed. The novelty of reducing my carbon footprint has worn off The kitchen is still full of damp laundry - it being the only warm place in the house and everyone is fed up of not having dry clothes. I suppose I could clear the sheets out of the airing cupboard and use it as an actual airig cupboard. Aha a plan!