Writing Familiar

Viewings

Today, we had the first couple of sale viewings for the house we are temporarily living in. In the meantime, I cracked on with writing my ninth novel, Familiar.

Bank Holiday Monday

A lovely Sunday morning saw us out in the garden. Even Fudge joined us, her first time outside since the fire. She was a little nervous and stuck close to us, but she enjoyed her time in the new garden:

A rare pic of Fudge with Monty:

Whilst out there, I also made good headway with my next novel, Familiar.

The light in our temporary home is gorgeous. I think I'm starting to fall in love with the place.

Slugs by Shaun Hutson

Started reading my first Shaun Hutson book 😱 - saw this 42 year old book going for a fiver so I thought wth!

Trichocerues brisdgessi Monstrosa (Long form)

A Day in the Garden

The first real warm and sunny day of May. Took the opportunity to sit outside to catch up on some writing and give Monty (who is 20 next month) a much-needed day out in the sunshine :)

My Niciotian rustica plants (centre right in the pic below) are growing nicely, and I am still hopeful of getting them to flower by the end of my GNS zine project:

Tarte Soleil Garlic & Pesto 🍞

 Friday May 3rd

A lazy(ish) day...

... made all the more purfect with this home made Tatre Soleil garlic and pesto bread:

Catch Up

Gutted I missed out on this year's May Day festivals in Glastonbury yesterday (especially after seeing these pics by someone who did attend 1  2 ), but I made up for it by getting a lot of work done on both my Swansea and Gower websites.

It's been a busy few weeks, as regular readers of my blog as facebook page will be aware, so I thought I would use today's post to publish some recent photographs I haven't has the opportunity to publish yet.

I'll start with this pic of our 8-year-old chickens, who remain at our old home while it's being refurbished but get daily visits to ensure their wellbeing. Here they are, photographed sometime during mid-April freelancing around the garden:

Next up are a few 🪴 pics (yes I still like to keep my fingers green).While I lost one Mandrake during the awful wet Welsh winter we have recently emerged from, this one survived and has sprung back into leaf: 🙂

And while my Mandrake is doing well, this gorgeous Crassula ovata (money tree) is currently displaying a Ruby flush that is gorgeous:

And finally, for now, here is my prize cactus, which is now sitting before the landing windowsill of our temporary home:

Well, that's me all caught up here now. Until my next post, keep well and happy.

Chillax

A quiet day, spent variably chilling with my cat, working on my GNS and Explore Gower projects  and writing.

Chuffed

Tuesday, 30 April, 2023

Making the most of my week away from the office. My Guy N Smith book is coming along nicely, as is my next novel, Familiar. My Explore Gower and Swansea Photography sites are up and running, I've cleaned up the design of this blog, and now I've started work on my next Gower guidebook, Tidal Gower.

Picking up our mail from our old house in the evening, I found a very special package waiting for me. If there is such a thing as grail items in the world of Guy N Smith collecting, then these are two are top of that list.

GNS - Day 30/100

Monday, 29 April, 2024 

Day 30/100 of my project to produce a GNS fanzine. All going well.

swanseaphotography.co.uk

 Friday, 26 April, 2024

I've always been fascinated by these trees. It feels cool to have lived around them for a few months. 

 

With my Glastonbury trip, planned for next week, cancelled, I've decided to utilise the time I had allotted to its planning and being there to get my Swansea photography project up and running again. Unfortunately, some fleecer had purchased (and put up for sale at an elevated price) the URL I had originally tied to the site. And so, the updated documentary project now sits at swanseaphotography.co.uk .

fudjcrum is loving our new bed

Thursday, 24 April, 2024

I came 'home' today to find fudjcrumb fast asleep on our new bed. It was her first day alone in the house.

Settling In

Tuesday, 22 April, 2024

A New Chapter Begins...

Monday, 22 April 2022

Well, we finally left the caravan park this morning:

And moved back into the city. With a 3 month contract on a house about a five minute drive from our proper residence on the top of the hill: