I thoroughly enjoyed telling my Pirate Pete story on Wednesday night. It keeps evolving! I have some new ideas to develop it further as a result. I rushed from Wick Court to our Book Club evening this time it was a meal based on Howard’s End. Once again it was a superb evening and we all excelled with our offerings.

I went to a really interesting talk earlier in the week by a Blacksmith who specialises in reconstructing mainly Saxon and Medieval weapons. He uses the same methods of smelting and working the iron as the people of the time. He is often used on television programmes to demonstrate how things were made. As I sat listening a tiny germ of an idea for a future story popped into my head. Watch this space!

I played cricket yesterday I am still struggling for runs but had a good game in the field as we beat Cheshire.

Just about to go off on a cycle might get wet, but need to do some hills because have no chance in the coming week and then we are in the Pyrenees!