For me, May is always a month of celebration. Apart for the Romancing the Genres Blog-o-versary, May is also my wedding anniversary AND my book anniversary too. The 7th May 2012 saw the publication of my first ever novel. I'm now eight years published, with 20 titles listed on Goodreads to my name.
Not that I'm able to do much about it right now, with the UK still (mostly) in lockdown. Nor could we take advantage of the 8th of May being made a bank holiday this year for the 75th anniversary of VE day. Sigh. But because of the VE celebration, our street had a social distancing street party, with everyone sitting at the end of their drives with out own separate drinks and party food (we had scones handmade by hubs, with raspberry jam and clotted cream, yum!), while a music teacher at the far end of the road played wartime classics on his clarinet, followed by another neighbour setting up as DJ for the evening while we all stood and chatted at the required 2m social distance. It was a strange kind of party, and yet probably the most sociable our street had ever been. I spoke to neighbours I hadn't chatted to in years (we've lived here 25 years now and just about to finish paying off our mortgage, yay), and others we've never spoken to at all. We have new neighbours in the house adjoining ours that we hadn't spoken to much but apparently the young lady is enamoured of my feather footed chooks so I took my baby Princess Aura out to be seen.
We stayed out until the sun was too much, but the music went on until 10am. I suppose COVID-19 has come with some benefits...
In the meantime, I'm still off work as I have three children home off school and there's no real call for my support as science technician at the school I work for. All those jobs I'd put off due to lack of money, then delayed by lack of time are now being done. And next month, title 21 is due to go off to my editor. Yep, there's finally another WIP.
Keep safe, and carry on reading!
Not that I'm able to do much about it right now, with the UK still (mostly) in lockdown. Nor could we take advantage of the 8th of May being made a bank holiday this year for the 75th anniversary of VE day. Sigh. But because of the VE celebration, our street had a social distancing street party, with everyone sitting at the end of their drives with out own separate drinks and party food (we had scones handmade by hubs, with raspberry jam and clotted cream, yum!), while a music teacher at the far end of the road played wartime classics on his clarinet, followed by another neighbour setting up as DJ for the evening while we all stood and chatted at the required 2m social distance. It was a strange kind of party, and yet probably the most sociable our street had ever been. I spoke to neighbours I hadn't chatted to in years (we've lived here 25 years now and just about to finish paying off our mortgage, yay), and others we've never spoken to at all. We have new neighbours in the house adjoining ours that we hadn't spoken to much but apparently the young lady is enamoured of my feather footed chooks so I took my baby Princess Aura out to be seen.
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| Princess Aura |
We stayed out until the sun was too much, but the music went on until 10am. I suppose COVID-19 has come with some benefits...
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| Our VE Day bunting - a little red, white, and blue, finished off with a rainbow for the NHS |
In the meantime, I'm still off work as I have three children home off school and there's no real call for my support as science technician at the school I work for. All those jobs I'd put off due to lack of money, then delayed by lack of time are now being done. And next month, title 21 is due to go off to my editor. Yep, there's finally another WIP.
Keep safe, and carry on reading!
2 comments:
Congratulations on #21!!!
I remember this post and was somewhat envious at the time. Not envious of the lockdown as we were in that state also but that you all were creative and brave enough to still pull together a celebration of VE Day. Hopefully 2022 will see the May 8th Bank Holiday return. That would be good news!
Pippa, your posts have always been a joy for me to read. Huge congrats on your 21st title being published! One of the beauties of being a writer, IMO, is that you can continue to do it as long as your brain is willing and able.
I don't know if I missed your earlier post about VE day celebration or have simply forgotten. But it sounds amazing that your neighborhood pulled together for that. For me, that is one of the beauties of the lockdown for many neighborhoods--actually having the time and taking the time to do neighhorly things together. I hope that those who made new connections will continue to feel connected as they do return to work and their lives become busy again. Also congrats on paying of your mortgage this year, too. That is a very freeing event!
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