Where has the time gone? Five minutes ago it was New Year. Now it’s nearly Valentine’s Day! The weather might be miserable, but spring is in the air. The Dawn Chorus has started and the garden is full of snowdrops. I’ve been working hard on my next book, Kitten Cupid and spending a lot of time doing physio on my damaged hip and broken wrist.
Spring is in the Air
We’re lucky enough to have two song thrushes singing in our garden. They start before it is properly light. One perches in the yellow-berried holly tree. The other sits in the elder, on the other side of the drive. At lunchtime today, three robins were squabbling in and around a variegated holly. Puffed up with fury, their red breasts stood out brilliantly against the green and yellow leaves.
Out in the Fresh Spring Air
According to the Wildlife Trusts, snowdrops aren’t native to the UK. Nobody seems to know when they arrived here, but they are very welcome as one of the first signs of spring. While we were walking Alex today we came across a big drift of snowdrops pushing up through last year’s dead bracken. They were a long way off the beaten track, so goodness knows how they got to that spot. They obviously love it!
Kitten Cupid
The more I work on the first draft of this novel, the more I like the title. Emily and Ben have both been unlucky in love. They are each finding it hard to trust again. Emily’s new job at the Folk Museum and veterinarian Ben’s concerns for a stray cat bring them together in an unexpected way. When Emily finds an abandoned kitten, it looks like the perfect way to break the ice with her new boss. It takes Ben’s tact to sort things out. Then he discovers that Emily has been hiding an awful secret…
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