It’s Christmas Eve, and in this country, everyone is getting excited and looking forward to family gatherings. After all, Christmas is all about family apart from the religious meanings.
We have been planning for next year already in this house. 2023 is going to be a busy year for us both. February, we're going to see Frankie Boyle in Exeter, followed by the Royal Albert Hall in March for the Mountbatten Festival of Music. Early Spring will be a shake-out of our new camping equipment before a week away in July on the beautiful Roseland Peninsular.
In September and October, we are lucky enough to have tickets for two of England's group matches and another at the Rugby World Cup in France. All arrangements and bookings are in place.
Over the last few days, I have considered where my writing activities to be in 2023.
I already have a piece of Flash Fiction ready for a competition. Entries have to be in by early February. I would also like to target some other short story competitions. The story writing bug has bitten me!
All being well, I have a few 'Novel in a Year" writing workshops to look forward to, throughout 2023 and into 2024. I hope the opportunity to join at least another one will become available as well as that one.
Ottery Writers are going to be publishing a short story anthology. I will aim to get at least one story into that publication.
We have just been up to East Hill here in Honiton for a Christmas Eve walk with
There we are then, everything is prepared for the big day tomorrow. The only thing left to do now is to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a big thanks to you all for taking the time read my blog posts this year. The year ahead promises to be exciting.
