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An Arundel reading

Up and doing last bits on Gordon Road this morning, I want to make it good, but I don't want to tweak it to death. Then I took myself off just after noon to the gym, and did a fairly decent workout there. Lorraine brought Pat and Maureen back to sit in the back garden, and Beth came too. Today was her due date but she's relaxed about it, and doesn't want to get into the mindset that the baby is somehow late.  I prepped a little bit for the reading, had a catnap and a shower. Robin came to collect me, but only after Maureen had told me off for having dirty glasses, and cleaned them for me. Took some tupperware with food in it, and Robin parked on the little bridge in the middle of Arundel, and we had a sort of picnic on a little green by the river looking at black headed gulls, and a man with a very old dog. I had forgot to pack a fork, but felt a wave of love for Lorraine as I opened it up to find she'd packed one. Robin and I walked through the streets of Arundel, whic...

Coffees and readings

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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 s...