Elven Princess

On Saturday I inked a colour picture of an elven princess for my granddaughter. I didn't take any brushes or distilled water so I had to make do with what I could find there.

Yesterday I bought 300 x 78 records to use with my old gramophone, I also bought 200 needles to play them. I also found out yesterday that you are only supposed to use a gramophone needle once before you discard it!

Today I picked up my new glasses (had a free cup of coffee there) and went to the bank. I then walked to Waitrose to wait for my wife and managed to write 500 words of SAASA 5.

Today's joke is:
The roundest knight at King Arthur's court was Sir Cumference. He gained his weight from eating too much pi!

Pixie Town

It was my mum's funeral today. I read the poem out that she wrote when she was about 11:

Pixie Town

In Pixie Town there is a fair,
There are crowds and crowds of pixies there,
Suddenly they heard a band, and a pixie put up his hand,
And said, "Look over there, there is a crowd,"
And some said aloud,
"It's alright," shouted the coconut man,
"Someone's been knocked out with a leg of lamb!"

May she rest in peace.

One Shot

I went to the solicitor's today to sort out my mother's estate. I then walked back to Waitrose to have a free coffee with my wife. I got my writing pad out but played an iPad game instead. Then my wife rang up to say she wasn't coming for a coffee! It tasted better than yesterday because they gave me one shot instead of two.

One shot instead of two, sounds like a hunter who hit with the first barrel of his shotgun.

Coppergate

I had to go and see the minister today who will preside over my mother's funeral. We met in Starbucks, Coppergate. Now Coppergate, York, derives from the Viking for 'The Street of the cup makers'. The Vikings made wooden cups. Guess what, I watched episode 7 of Vikings from the History channel tonight. Ragnar and the others were smashing English plates, because they were used to wooden ones!

Waitrose

I haven't been updating my blog because my mother died a week ago and I have been trying to sort her stuff out.

I managed to write 500 words today and finish SAASA 4. I used my Waitrose card to get a free cup of coffee and do the last 250 words there. Next time I'll take some powdered milk because it was too strong. Maybe they do it like that so that you will only ever go in for one free cup!

I found a poem written by my mother when she was a teenager, so I have introduced a new character based on it. I am going to dedicate Attack on Thera to her.

Today's joke is:

My teacher said I was average, I told him that's just mean!

Memory

I managed to finish proofreading SAASA 3 yesterday morning and put it on Amazon as a project. I now need to find the original cover because it's on a memory card somewhere :(

Yesterday

Yesterday I managed to proof read 4 pages of Sid and Arthur's Steampunk Adventure part 3, at Starbucks on my iPad. I will try and do a bit more today and also write some more of SAASA 4.

Yesterday's joke was:

A plumber's pipe dream was to tap all his resources to become multifauceted!