Coffees and readings

Awake at 6:30 and already light. Breakfast, then to Baca to meet Palo for coffee. Nice to see her. She showed me some pictures she's been making combining painting with pressed flowers, which I liked. I like Palo lots and we talked about having dinner with our other halves soon.

Palo also said  she will come along to the reading I am doing in Lewes to launch Robin's book on the May 9th and also to belatedly celebrate my Mariscat publication, and Snow which I did with Palo. 

In fact I have a mini tour:  a reading in Seaford on April 12th, one in Greenwich on June 24th. I will have to shout about these from the social media rooftops soon.

Then I met Lorraine after she'd finished story time and we went for another coffee in the Lanes Eatery. As we were leaving the cafe we met two mums (plus small gleamy-eyed babies) who had attended Lorraine's library session. 

Lorraine and I went to Flowers to look at carpets, and booked a fitter to size it up on Monday for the spare room. Typically Toby is coming to stay a couple a couple of days before the guest room is redecorated, and made nice. Then Lorraine off to see Pat and Maureen, and I went home to write for a while and tidy up. 

Lorraine off to her pottery class in Eastbourne. Ate freezer food this evening. I defrosted a mysterious mastodon or mammoth stew. I added some Brussels sprouts and leftovers to it. Sub optimal.