desperance

My other favourite line from the new story (which is called "Between the Woods and the Water", by the way) is actually something I came up with for a postcard joke on my first canal-boat holiday, more or less twenty years ago. Can't tell you what it is, as it's currently the last line of the story, but I love that I finally found a way to use it seriously, for it is just the best line ever.

Also forgot to mention that - utterly to my surprise, as it is kind of radical in its treatment - my abbreviated form of Dracula has been approved by editorial, so the rest of today is devoted to picking at it & tidying it up, maybe cutting it a little before it goes back to them in final form. And the rest of this week I shall be writing the associated material, and then have that off my desk, hurrah.

Meanwhile, I have been downstairs watching the total madness that is "Waking the Dead" (cold-cases police team TV series, for those who don't know it; great fun, and getting madder with every series) - and for the last twenty minutes I had two, count 'em two, yes both of the boys on my lap! In more or less perfect amity! Back to back and pretty much turned away from each other, but touching, and not at all fighting! I did have to let Mac chew at me for a minute before he settled, but that's standard, and he didn't even threaten to bite or pounce on Barry. It may be a one-time wonder, but it's a wonder none the less.