Write on!

Well what good morning's work.  My children's books manuscripts are in an envelope ready for the post office and onward journey to a publisher.  Wish me luck!  Then I have made a sticker board and put on post-it notes regarding the planning, writing, typing of my novel.  I read the first few chapters to reacquaint myself with the storyline and feel I now have motivation to continue this work.

Sounds all well and good but this is 'silly season' as I call it.  Strange things happen to prevent me functioning as well as the spring and summer months. The months of October and November are all about ghosts, witches, gunpowder and fires.  I believe the negative energies of these are in the shops selling the commercial goods that grow each year to entice us to have fun in the dark days of autumn.  I have never understood where the fun in spiders webs, black cats, capes and hats, spells, warts etc is?  I can oooh and ahhh at a firework display but get upset about all that money going up in smoke when people need food and shelter in our country and abroad.

That scary energy is brought into our homes via the media and ultimately, I think is channelled through our bodies into some, if not all, electrical appliances, in particular computers.  It really can't be coincidence that autumn each year brings new trials.  It would make interesting research to see which months people call out electricians, TV mechanics, etc and when they purchase new white goods.

So far the dishwasher has broken down and been fixed, the fridge thermostat has gone freezing cucumbers in seconds, and my new laptop has refused to successfully load a virus detector.  Having spent over 3 hours both with on-line and telephone help the problem is unresolved.  My computer-fixer man tells me Windows 10 is not compatible with this well know protector.  So I have wasted money and none the wiser about what to do next.

Weather forecasters predict a hard winter to come.  Well bring it on early I say.  Freeze the unseen evil spirits travelling our atmospheres.  Let's hibernate until spring.  Eat and drink what we have without the excess of celebrations that cause a lot of people to forget the original thoughts behind Halloween, Bonfire night and Christmas.  They are dark months, let's just sleep more as nature intends.  I wish!