• I’m probably tempting fate, but I’ve noticed that spam calms down at the weekends, these days.

    Have the spammers done so well for themselves that they now work office hours?

  • Caterpillar on window making trails
    Caterpillar on window making trails

    We’ev been visited by a caterpillar that has crawled up and down the kitchen window, looking for a way in, I presume.

    If you look at the picture, you can see that it has left a trail behind it. I suspect that the trail is silk. A few hours later, most of it had gone, blown away by the strong winds we’ve been experiencing. It’s quite cute, really. The pattern probably traces the movement of it’s behind as it laid a trail of silk behind it.

    I know that caterpillars can often be found suspended by their silk, but this would suggest to me that they keep a tread attached to where ever they are, just incase they should get blown off and need to get back.

  • It’s now a quarter past twelve and I haven’t done any work yet. Well, I have actually, but not what I call work work.

    Now the school year is underway, invitations to visit schools and festivals have started coming in. I love visiting schools – I must do – I do a lot of travelling to schools each year, but it necessarily requires a lot of organisation. So when I’m asked if I sit down and write all day, the answer is no. I spend a lot of time travelling and, when I’m home, I spend a lot of time preparing to travel,

    Today I’ve been sorting out a trip to Scotland. That’s contracts, flights, long-term parking, car hire, route planning and timing before I even consider what I might do in each of the schools I’m gong to visit. Sometimes I think it would be great to have someone sort it all out for me, but I’d probably end up spending as long with my organising person as I do sorting it out myself. Of course the internet makes it so much easier, and I’m getting to know my way around all the travel sites quite well now and the Sat Nav is a boon, when it’s got the correct destination, that is.

    By the time I’ve finished the rest of my paper work today it will be lunchtime and there’s another morning gone with no work done!