I'm still alive

I haven't posted here for a while for 2 reasons. 1) Got busy at work then 2) I got sick with a cold-cum-viral infection and have only just returned to work today after being off for just over a week. It started as a cold then once that died off I got tired and weak, so went to the dr's who said it's a viral infection and gave me the rest of the week off. Needless to say during that time I didn't do any proper writing, just notes here and there, oh and final amendments to the story I'd already sent to a small press magazine. Meanwhile I did get a rejection letter from Woman's Weekly but I have another story in mind to send. I didn't do any writing today but probably will get back to work on Bug tomorrow. While I was off I really got into tv cooking programmes and started watching Ready, Steady Cook which I enjoyed. I had already been watching Jamie and Nigella, and have even bought the Nigella Express book, and will probably buy the Jamie book too.

Has anything happened to you that you think it's fate? Well, this happened to my mum last week. She got stuck on a bus in traffic on the way back from shopping and cursed at the time but later changed her mind, because if the bus hadn't have been late returning, she wouldn't have bumped into a woman who works for the council and who she'd spoken to before about the bad tree by our house, and wouldn't have found out that her husband is actually our local councillor. So mum went down the road and spoke to him, in his dressing gown (he had to get up early to contact overseas) about the tree. He said that it was ongoing and thought that it was being dealt with and said he would look into it. Then mum bumped into a neighbour who had already put a claim in to the council about the tree and gave my mum the phone number to check that they'd received my letter. They had and I got an acknowledgement letter 2 days later saying they were investigating the problem. Then my mum finally bumped into another neighbour and found out what had happened to his car which she'd seen being towed away. He'd been in an accident and the front of his car had been seriously damaged causing £3,500 worth of damage. Fate, that was what it was.

Well, must get on with some work now.