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I know a lot of you have been fretting about my broken back bumper and whether it would mean my car would fail it's MOT. What do you mean you don't remember and you've got problems of your own?
Why am I even writing this blog?I took the car in for its MOT and didn't mention the bumper (hoping they wouldn't notice) and amazingly the car passed without any problems at all. The bumper was not broken enough to fail its MOT. I don't have to pay £400 to fix it. I can drive around in my rubbish, but road-worthy, broken car. And there's no point in fixing it because someone else will just run into it. I am a winner.
My reading/audible listening for RHLSTP Book Club is always intense and enjoyable. Today I was reading Cafe Chaos Book 2 by Catherine Wilkins (who is talking with me tomorrow and staying over at mine tonight, so might be able to influence my review - it's an excellent book).
Get it here. It's really funny, but also covers some emotional and important family and friends stuff. Your kids will love it!
And I was listening to the final chapter of The Witch Trial by Harriet Tyce who I'll be chatting to in a couple of weeks. You may have seen Harriet on Traitors (though she was a million selling author already) going from hero to self-imploding bomb in the course of 24 hours (and still a hero, but a scarier one) and I am keen to talk to her about that experience of course. The book is gripping and twisty and turny as you might expect, though nicely includes facts amongst the fiction, like the weird little coffins found up Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh
https://www.nms.ac.uk/discover-catalogue/the-coffins-found-on-arthurs-seat. Sadly I won't be able to talk about the extraordinary denouement, which I did not see coming and you won't either, which I found bonkers but highly enjoyable. I am really looking forward to meeting her, as well as being terrified about putting the cat amongst the pigeons.
Two brilliant writers. Please support them. Especially if I am married to them.
It was a packed day but I managed to fit in a Newsround at 7pm, just before popping off to do a 2 and a half hour play rehearsal.
