Return to Blogging

For those that followed my blogs my departure was sudden and abrupt I shall explain. For some time we had planned to sell our house in Essex and buy a smaller ‘bolt hole’ nearer to my daughter and granddaughter. Our house went on sale the first week in April and an offer was made and accepted within the first week. We then looked for our ‘bolt hole in the village where my daughter lived but not keen on the properties for sale in the village. Our granddaughter who lived thirty minutes away was pointing out suitable houses in her village; we looked and found just what we wanted – all nice, and quick, and simple!
Now for those that know better I have now joined your numbers; selling and buying are both hells – sheer hell. They say selling your house is the worst experience you can encounter – they (whoever they are) are correct. I never realised that lawyers could find so many reasons to drag out the whole thing, and it took almost four months. Only four months the experts said when i mentioned it– gosh you were lucky! Luck, I didn’t think it was very lucky – but it seems I stand corrected.
Now when we had agreed the sale - and I thought it was going to be simple, it seemed a good idea to rearrange my book sales at the same time – just change the printers and the distribution system. Oh, and while we were at it sort out a national advertising campaign. Now I should have known better, but fools rush in where angels fear to tread. There is only one way this last summer can be summed up – a mad house. Certainly tweeting and blogging went out of the window, but now a little bit of sanity has arrived – oh yes, I forgot, the builders started work this morning putting in the footings for a conservatory; first thing to remove is an old tree root system that comes out of the ground with a seven foot bole to get in the way.
I shall endeavour to put my first blog of the season out this weekend so watch this space.
Did I mention I also set up my books with Amazon Kindle just to keep me busy
Signing off for now, and I hope my followers are ready for my assault on their reading time.

Patrick