Manic But Good

Talk about only having spare nanoseconds. This week was wall-to-wall with meetings after school, a lovely anniversary dinner and a trip to Snowdonia.
Yesterday we went to Llyn Ogwen to spy out our new silver/gold practice route for Easter. Gorgeous place but it was cold! The little streams runnning down the mountain were fringed with icicles -all beautifully clear . They looked like exotic glass flowers. Sadly it was too slippery on the rocks to cross over the top of the ridge to the Devil's Kitchen. Let's hope by Easter it will be a little warmer.
I began my Screenwriting course at LJMU on Tuesday and got an immediate pay-off. In my script Granny's Little Helper I had wondered how to show Alex's cheeky character. Margie suggested he might want to impersonate his Dad while he was away. Although I will use a small element of that, it did trigger a great idea for a crazy website he and his friends can create in his Dad's name. Simon Cowell will be sick he didn't think of this one!

Return to Normality

And finally... After the making of such Christmas fayre (horrible word) as Jerusalem artichoke soup with scallops, rabbit and crayfish pie (known as pest pie in our house - it's really good), white chocolate mousse with raspberry and lemon thyme jelly; and the New Year lacquered quails I can resume my writing.
This years big resolution is to get the revised treatment of Granny's Little Helper to the German agent who sounded interested; chase up the short script another producer took during the London Screen Writers Festival and start my scriptwriting course on Tuesday. I wonder what everyone will be like there?