Update

[essayel]

I think - not sure but I think - that my alterna-me website is about finished. There are little pictures and some bits of stories. If anyone has a look and spots a typo please let me know here? I'm not sure how to handle comments there. I assume they are pretty hard to make. It was fun if time consuming to do. But now I know what shortcuts to take revisions should be easier to make.

Had a fright Saturday night. Huge screech and bang outside so I ran out to see what was going on and it was one of my daughter's friends - she had misjudged the turn at the bottom of the road and decided it might be better to run into a wall rather than ram the back of a car. All the kids, including Jen, are okay thanks to seat belts and crumple zones, but the car is very poorly and so is the wall. I went into 'taking charge mode', which is effective if a little apologetic - "Um - if you two could take Em and make her tea, oh and, Jen, put a bag of frozen peas on Al's knee? Now please?" I hate it when I know I'm talking in questions but it got the job done. The poor little driver was hysterical. The owner of the wall was quite calm once he'd taken in the situation and realised that a] bricks are easier to put back together than his car would have been and b] the kid's dad owns a building firm.

I can't believe that there are only 2 weeks of summer holiday left. Himself has just stopped shouting in his sleep and is sleeping soundly and properly for once. I'm turning the damned alarm off and keeping it off for the next two weeks. He may as well sleep in while he can.

Now mum's eye has completely healed from her cataract op she says too much light is getting in and she has taken to wearing a very cool pair of aviator shades that she bought on a trip to the local garage. This means that she can't see well enough to find things and she trips over that cat, but she's happy! No honest.

The cat - the black one whose tail was in a parlous state - is fine. The tail still hinges a bit in the middle but he can lift it up and wave it all the way to the tip. So bruised rather than broken thank goodness.

I have a zip file of books to review [I'm halfway through a Chandleresque noirish murder mystery at the moment. All good fun] a book to beta, another to beta again [they agreed to have me back *wipes away tear*] and my pirate story to finish. 75K words and I've just about got them to boinking point, thanks to Protagonist Kit being a self righteous arse and me not wanting to 'do it all wrong'.

Happy Monday guys and gals.

Comments

[cornwall_calling]

I can't get your website from here either!

[aunty_marion]

Website from here (comment page) points at http://essayel.dreamwidth.org/www.elingregory.com - from my main friendspage it points at http://aunty-marion.dreamwidth.org/www.elingregory.com , and it's the same (with livejournal instead of dreamwidth) over there...

[essayel]

How very peculiar. It loads okay for me even if I'm not signed in.

http://www.elingregory.com is where it should go. I'll have a poke around with a browser that's never been there before and see what happens. It could be the cross-posting that does something to the link.

:(

[britalone.livejournal.com]

I can't link to your website, when I click on the link I get "page not found".

[essayel.livejournal.com]

:) I'd left out a space! It should work now.

[kc-risenphoenix.livejournal.com]

So glad to hear no one was hurt in the car incident. Why would tea help though? Did you pour it over her knee? Thank goodness for you taking charge and that the kid's dad owns a building firm!

Hurray for you Mum! She is in my prayers, as you always are!

You are an amazing beta! The things you have done for my stories! Thank you!

Hurray for boinking pirates!

I will check out your site but I am up WAY too early with how late I was up, and going to bed for power nap!

Happy Monday to you!

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Tea is the elixir of life to the average afflicted Brit. Firstly there's the comforting familiarity of the making ritual - the questions about how you take it, cradling the cup in ones hands, the calming way the steam rises. More medically, there's the warmth to counteract the chill of shock, the mild caffeine lift, and sugar whether they want it or not to replenish the energy burnt off by adrenalin.

Tea is brill!

*hugs* you're kind. You're also lucky to be able to nap. It's so warm and quiet in here that my eyelids are drooping.

[metallumai.livejournal.com]

Exciting!

[essayel.livejournal.com]

There are some kinds of excitement I can do without :( but on the whole *hugs*

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Tea cures everything.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

It serpently does! In fact I'm going to make a cup and take it with me up to a quiet corner to write stuff.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

And happy nowTuesday to you. That crash sounds awful - well done for coping so spiffingly.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Thankee, midear. What surprised me was how many people came out of their houses, looked at the wrecked car and the hysterical kids and just buggered off again, including a doctor and a nurse. I guess they were off duty?

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Off duty from being compasionate? Grr.

You played a blinder.

[irishkate.livejournal.com]

glad everyone is ok and the worst was a bruised knee.

and :-) !