Getting warmer.

And thank goodness for that. I've been sat in front of the tv all week [because that's where the fire is] and I've written nothing at all. And because I haven't been using my brain I've been asleep most evenings by ten and awake at 4 and far too cold to get out of bed and go to where my old PC is.

I so want to get on and write about cutting out expeditions and cannon fire and the reluctant admission that that particular kiss was the best thing that ever happened. Oh and treasure!

I'm having difficulty getting real pieces of eight for next years exhibition, however www.medievalmerchant.co.uk will sell me nine first rate facsimiles for £12.50. I can display one of those and I won't have to guarantee someone to sit and look at it all day as I would have if I borrowed one from the National Museum of Wales.

I met a real live author today! :D Bettina Selby - she wrote travel books about riding her bike in unlikely places, like to the source of the Nile and through the Hindu Kush. I'll have to look out for them.