Fab weekend

Current work: last runthrough of book
Listening to: Vivaldi cello concerti
Reading: next on TBR pile

Brilliant things that happened over the weekend:

• Author copies of Norfolk Miscellany arrived

• saw a fab production of Joseph at the Theatre Royal in Norwich (Craig Chalmers was Joseph; the whole cast was excellent, and for the delectation of various romantic novelists, I must point out that the guy playing Pharaoh looked like Richard Armitage dressed as Elvis – just go and check out the pics on his website, here – have just noticed from the programme bio that he was involved in Grease. Oh dear. My daughter would definitely want to see that and she’d fall in love with him as Danny)
• went out to dinner with DH and friends on Saturday night (sadly, crème brulee was not involved – but my starter was fabulously kooky as well as seriously scrummy. Take one pile of lovely steamed asparagus, take one soft-boiled egg, take top off egg and add butter from spoon and vinegar from pipette to make a kind of hollandaise, and use asparagus as soldiers. Ha. You know that’s going to end up in a book, don’t you?) (AND for the first time ever we didn’t get a tearful child on the phone – she’s a real daddy’s girl, but I’m the one she wants when she’s tired and tearful, bless)
• saw my fave aunt and uncle on Sunday (wonderful - our first barbecue of the year, and their garden is fabulous - DH relived his childhood playing a fairly vicious game of swingball with my uncle; lovely to see my cousin, too, especially as she's heading towards a milestone birthday and I can tease her about being OLD - and her husband made a seriously gorgeous banoffee pie for pud, even caramelising the bananas himself with a blowtorch)

Hope everyone else had as nice a weekend as I did.

Today is deadline day and I am finishing the book. Am blogging over at Love is the Best Medicine today about mad ideas so please go over and say hello – you could influence the crazy ideas my mind is producing, and you’ll get the chance to win a signed copy of a book…