Welcome to my world!

I seem to be on multi-tasking megadrive at the moment!

Here are some of the balls I'm currently juggling:

• Big time activity round the Coven/moot event on Saturday. (See next post.)

• Photography jobs are like London buses. You don't see one for ages, then 3 come along together. So that's 3 lots of taking pix, trips to lab, sorting, editing, labelling, invoicing, delivering ...

• I'm on the judging panel for the Skint short story competition. My goodness, but some of you are amazingly talented writers! The overall standard is quite remarkable and includes stories that made me laugh, cry, howl in pain, ponder and fly ...

I've read them all and - with huge difficulty - have listed my choices. It was tough at the top, I can tell you! My criteria were: good writing (of course!), whether the story fitted the theme, whether it worked as a short story and whether it took me somewhere I hadn't been before.

Now Skint, Minx, Maxine, Clare and I have to try to reach a consensus!

• All the usual parenting stuff: cooking, cleaning, shopping, washing, helping 11 yr old with homework, helping 8 yr old with homework, parents' evenings, cooking for First Born's primary school reunion, ditto for swimming club party ...

• Visiting my dad (who lives on the other side of London - approx 100 mins away by bus and train)

• Blogging - posting, commenting, surfing ... though not nearly as much as I'd like ... So please forgive me if I've been remiss in following things up.

• Trying to get the flat in a (relatively) decent state for when the celebrity author comes to stay next weekend.

• Writing - oh ... um ... sorry ... please can I have an extension ... I've ... er ... had a headache ... and the cat ate it ... and ...