Evening,
I usually end up in our village shop most days and tend to forget what I went in for and come out with a pile of chocolate for Huw and a jar of Marmite. Yesterday I went in and smiled vaguely at the woman in front of me in the queue. I was a bit of a state, having been up most of the night before with one of the girls, was wearing a bad vest and had "it'll surely do another day" hair.
She went to the counter and asked, "Do you have the new book by Lorraine Jenkin in please, as I'd heard her new one is out?"
Ali at the counter said, "ooh, I don't know, but ask - her" and pointed to me, frantically rubbing a cornflake off my vest. The woman looked at me and obviously thought, "Why? Does that state deal with the shelf stacking and ordering?"
"Yes, I wrote it! Why, have you read the other one?"
It turned out that she had and she had enjoyed it and she had sent it off to a few mates! Great!
I walked out of the shop with a smile on my face - and a tin of Golden Syrup for tea.
There is little else to report as I've spent the rest of the week nursing a child with suspected chicken pox and chasing a blue bottle fly.
3 comments:
Hi Lorraine,
as Mike is so rubbish at sending me your email address I have resorted to blagging.... I loved your first book and sent a copy to Harriet too. I could hear your voice, recognise the locations and loved your oh so dry sense of humour. I remember the shop well and can't believe they have Golden Syrup! I'll pop in next time I am in Builth but I doubt I will be welcome as I have four kids. Good luck at the RWS, Penny xxxxxx
Ah, Penny, Hello! How are you and your four children? Thank you for your comments, very kind! Someone said that they thought that Mike was actually one of the characters, but I didn't think Skinny was much like him at all...
no, more a cross between Mike AND Andy..
Four kids is a nightmare; ages 6, 3, 2, 7 months. How come you ended in Newbridge and not Builth? No houses left? I see, like me, you do your best work at night. Px
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