On the plus side last weekend's visit to Croome certainly lived up to expectations. The scaffold wrap looks amazing covered with urban art. Certain sections of the scaffolding are open to the public giving amazing once-in-a-lifetime views. I can't wait for the skyline cafe to open. Hard-hat tours will also be available once the restoration work starts. Allowing the public to get up close and personal with the fabric of the building in way no one's done since Capability Brown remodelled Croome. Not forgetting my daughters fiancé who turned in an excellent acting performance in a 'A Strange Encounter'.
In amongst all this I've actually managed to do some writing, mapping out another new project (more fantasy than Sci-fi this time) and continuing the grammatical revisions to my ebook, Exiles. Where I'm seriously reducing the comma count and upping the number of full stops, cutting back the number of follow-on sentences. One of the traits with which my dyslexia has blessed my writing.
Still if I worried about that, I'd have never published it in the first place. The best way to deal with life is face it head on, tick as many things as you can of your personal bucket list, and worry about making a fool of yourself afterwards.
Which is probably why I've signed up to the Kili-mock-Jaro climbing wall challenge next Friday to raise money for Children-in-Need. So I'll be doing some last minute training this weekend, other commitments permitting. At the time of writing we're nearly three-quarters of the way to our £1,000 fund raising target. Everyone taking part has given up a day's annual leave and clubbed together to hire the climbing wall, and other costs. So every penny raised goes to those who need it. Please support it if you can.