First was the car problem. It’s due in for a full service
next week but it seems to have developed a little problem that’s causing it to
lose power and since it doesn’t have much oomph at the best of times – that’s
serious! However, when the garage was contacted they told us that we can ignore
the flashing or sometimes constant ‘engine alert’ light and just carry on till
next week’s booking.
I coaxed it home from Westhill yesterday (Sunday) where I
was selling my novels at a Craft Fair. That was only a return trip of about 14 miles
but this morning I had a booking in Ellon to do an author presentation at the
Ellon Forum, a group which meets every second Monday at 10 a.m. I got up bright
and early at 7 a.m. so that I could leave in plenty of time for the return trip
of around 40 miles which normally takes around 40 minutes.
I don’t normally have my husband tagging along to my ‘author talk’
sessions but I’m very glad he decided to accompany me today as he needed to
really do some coaxing of the engine on the steeper hills. We got there far too
early, of course, but it was a huge relief to get there at all.
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The session with the Ellon Forum was absolutely perfect. The
40 or so people (I didn’t actually count them but it seemed about then many) were a wonderfully receptive
audience during the general presentation about my books. It was even more fantastic
when I sold 14 of my novels to them; potentially got 2 new beta readers for
any new manuscripts and also potentially new bookings for talks to other
groups. My thanks go to Lynne Copping for arranging my visit, and my thanks also
go to the rest of the group for attending and listening… and the coffee for
both me and my husband.
It was with trepidation we set off on the homeward journey. It was slow but we made it!
Sadly, another downer was coming home to find that my Facebook
profile had been hacked and lots of people who were already my friends had
received a bogus friend request. I was
not born in 1995 and I was also not joining Facebook at that same time! Hopefully
I’ve got it all sorted now (having spent ages this afternoon) because I want to
enjoy thinking about my lovely morning!
I hope you never have the distastefulness and violation of
having some bogus nuisance illegally ‘borrow’ your persona.
Slàinthe!
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