tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132582821010486689.post8381659131300001996..comments2024-03-27T07:18:58.033+00:00Comments on Frances Garrood: No holiday this yearFrances Garroodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10614916006798375706noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132582821010486689.post-62079791213716407742010-09-07T12:12:19.448+01:002010-09-07T12:12:19.448+01:00PS And thanks, Teresa!PS And thanks, Teresa!Frances Garroodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10614916006798375706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132582821010486689.post-81114275319856706692010-09-07T12:05:54.249+01:002010-09-07T12:05:54.249+01:00Ah yes. The car park. When I went out for the last...Ah yes. The car park. When I went out for the last time to feed the machine with yet more coins, I found I'd run out. Great. Then a lovely little car park attendant came up to ask if he could help, and I bleated, yes, I've no money left, and we've been waiting ages etc etc. Not to worry, said he, placing a sympathetic hand on my arm. I could forget about the money. Which was my car?<br /><br />I whimpered something about him being the first person to be nice to us all day, and practcally fell weeping into his arms. So that was that rare and wonderful thing: a good car park experience.<br /><br />Every cloud...Frances Garroodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10614916006798375706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132582821010486689.post-12794340242724139662010-09-06T19:38:14.735+01:002010-09-06T19:38:14.735+01:00So sorry about the DVT and your holiday - hope Joh...So sorry about the DVT and your holiday - hope John soon recovers. As for those hospital car park machines - don't get me started! Not what you need when you're already worried, ill or under stress - or all three (that's if you can find a space in the first place)!Teresa Ashbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15350697922935549188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132582821010486689.post-36139504765033510182010-09-03T18:56:21.415+01:002010-09-03T18:56:21.415+01:00Wheelie - the DVT followed a fall a few weeks ago....Wheelie - the DVT followed a fall a few weeks ago. Not enough exercise afterwards. All very boring!Frances Garroodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10614916006798375706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132582821010486689.post-72594112715737477982010-09-03T17:52:33.998+01:002010-09-03T17:52:33.998+01:00Did you see that interview on BBC Breakfast this m...Did you see that interview on BBC Breakfast this morning?<br /><br />I'm a bit rubbish in the memory department, but if I remember rightly, she has four kids (lads)<br /><br />She talked about how when she wrote her book, her characters said things she hadn't expected them to say, and just went with it.<br /><br />It worked (shrug!) <br /><br />You don't mention how John got DVT - it's usually for long periods of inactivity - I get nagged about it being a stroke survivor?Wheeliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10798837094383674273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132582821010486689.post-85271005319823831242010-09-03T15:42:45.993+01:002010-09-03T15:42:45.993+01:00Hi Dee- yes it was a bit of a bugger, but the weat...Hi Dee- yes it was a bit of a bugger, but the weather's been great, and I've done a lot of riding. We hope to go away in October.<br /><br />Alis - perhas it's different if your an historian? There must be so much you have to get right, whereas with my novel it was all straight out of my head (which may or may not be a good thing...). One of the reasons I was in a hury was that my agent is getting married in October, and is of course going to be very busy.Frances Garroodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10614916006798375706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132582821010486689.post-81990013782786494642010-09-03T08:08:48.562+01:002010-09-03T08:08:48.562+01:00Oh Frances, I really didn't want to worry you!...Oh Frances, I really didn't want to worry you! I think I just have a tendency to overcomplicate my books and I have to cut away a lot of the complication before it's worth looking at. Clearly, you manage not to do that!Alishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18406189984167289987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132582821010486689.post-38900110893529762742010-09-03T01:18:58.175+01:002010-09-03T01:18:58.175+01:00Sorry Frances I missed all this drama going on wit...Sorry Frances I missed all this drama going on with you. What a shock, everything all thrown up in the air like that.Some doctors bedside manners leave a lot to be desired.Hope you get a bigger better holiday when you get the all clear. My WIP has gone off too, but now I am still editing and chopping even in its absence because my agent is in the South of France and I can't bear to wait and do nothing!Deborah Swifthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10594174632573628818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132582821010486689.post-34729467140766903302010-09-02T19:23:55.527+01:002010-09-02T19:23:55.527+01:00Now you've got me panicking, Alis. But I do a ...Now you've got me panicking, Alis. But I do a lot of editing as I go, so I don't tend to do that much at the end. But maybe I should have...I did go through it very carefully, fiddling and tweaking, but in the end I thought I was doing more harm than good.<br /><br />I am now seriously worried!Frances Garroodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10614916006798375706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132582821010486689.post-50998363761375192422010-09-02T18:53:49.464+01:002010-09-02T18:53:49.464+01:00Yikes, Frances! Did you have no re-writing to do? ...Yikes, Frances! Did you have no re-writing to do? I can't imagine sending something off so quickly after having finished it. I need way more agonising-time!Alishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18406189984167289987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132582821010486689.post-2305963339645626482010-09-01T16:49:24.628+01:002010-09-01T16:49:24.628+01:00Thanks, Alis. Yes - warfarin and heparin injecions...Thanks, Alis. Yes - warfarin and heparin injecions and blood tests and elastic stockings...But he's being very good. We'll probably try to go away in October, but I've started reading the books (couldn't wait)!<br /><br />I've just sent off the - what do you call a WIP which isn't IP any more? Well, that, anyway. I miss it already. I hate getting to the end.Frances Garroodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10614916006798375706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3132582821010486689.post-52457999152884237502010-09-01T11:09:54.798+01:002010-09-01T11:09:54.798+01:00Oh, poor you! Many commiserations both for the DVT...Oh, poor you! Many commiserations both for the DVT and the missed holiday, not to mention the trying interview with the doctor.<br />I do hope John recovers soon - will he have to go on the dreaded wharfarin?Alishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18406189984167289987noreply@blogger.com