In passing

You may have noticed a certain drive-by quality to my blogging over the last few days.

Obviously, the family and I have been Very Busy buying a house, and doing everything that goes with it: driving up and down to Northumberland, seeing lots of houses, talking about houses, talking about how lovely our new house is, bursting into tears in our new bedroom in our new house because it feels so utterly just us(OK, that was just me), and all that.

But I’ve mainly been busy on the book. For the last 10 days or so I’ve been in the final throes of writing ‘Thinking, Laughing, Living, Dancing: how I said Bah! to cancer’ and it’s absorbing my attention in a pretty intense way. It’s not that I’m writing 24 hours a day: it’s more that because I’m so immersed that it’s hard to make the mental leap out of cancer then (whenever ‘then’ is, depending on the chapter – editing the chemotherapy chapter was really hard going)  to life and cancer now – and so it’s hard to blog coherently or find very much to say, except ‘do you remember this….’ which seems like cheating. 

Today will be the final editing and tweaking. (I say ‘final’ although obviously a good agent and editor will have lots to suggest for my maybe-diamond.) So. Look out for the big squee when it’s done – you’ll be the second to know – and normal service will be resumed shortly afterwards.

I’ll see you when I’ve finished my book.