Play, pickle and print

Looking at how busy the week ahead might be I thought I would just write a short blog now to keep everybody up to date. No need to mention the weather....no change there! Pitlochry Theatre was a real treat. The play was very funny and the Atholl players did a fantastic job. I would have to rate them as very professional indeed. The Christmas shopping was a bit of a non-starter though. A lot of the shops are the same or a variation of the same....Edinburgh Woollen Mill type. Any shops that were different went from the cheapest of cheap poundstretcher to the '£500 for a cashmere dressing gown' at the House of Bruar. We did manage to find some useful bits in the poundstretcher and lunch at the House of Bruar was as usual excellent. While there we bought several kgs of apples. Why? It was the end of the day and the young man was selling them cheap just to get rid of them.
The bulk buy of apples led me to making a batch of chutney last night. I had half an eye on the WRI March competition anyway which is for chutney. My recipe calls for it to mature for two or three months. For once I am organised ahead of time.
Today has been all about Peter Pan. Not the panto but the children's novel which Sheila and I are working on. I spent quite a few hours today...not really writing anything new but getting familiar again with what we had done before, rearranging it according to the competition rules, scanning and copying, taking stuff off the old computer to get it on the new, and thinking...yes thinking! (while ironing!) I wish I didn't have to go to school tomorrow and Tuesday as I am really getting back into it and would rather be doing that than teaching. I have promised myself though, (and Sheila) that I will do at least a couple of hours each day on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week.
Might manage a blog too, of course.