Over on my pal Damien Walter's blog I've gone and committed the act of guest post.

It's about the discoveries made in brain research and how it can help our novel/story writing. Get your scalpel and have a look over there!!!

I was watching the child birth doc on Channel4 and the woman about to give birth was quite emotional.

The pain is equivalent to getting a juggernaut through your front door - it needs a serious amount of structural re-arranging!

Anyway, her husband burst into tears as the little fella popped his head out. The midwife's eyes filled with joy, the mother bubbled, I started crying, even me tatoos were crying.

What a marvelous thing I thought, then I remembered...

Okay it's Friday and its a family tradition to try and have an easy day and get on the drink as soon as possible.

So around 2Pm my fat arse landed on my seat at my garden table and 4 cans of lager magically appeared in front of me. The ball and chain was there, having a tab and doing a Gary impression by drinking my amber nectar.

It was really hot today and I took my top off. For a moment the birds fell silent and her indoors fell off her stool.

I used...

Okay! After a discussion with Ursa about a certain writers lack of use of punctuation marks on his dialogue in a book we have recently read. I went to bed and had the weirdest of dreams.

Me and Ursa, who was sitting in the car in all his fluffiness, were having a coffee while we waited for the suspect to leave his gaff.

Ursa looked at me, "Everything okay Guv?"

I stared at him and wondered why I was sitting in a car with a big white teddy drinking...

So, it's been a while!

Life is ridiculously busy right now. I have so many creative projects on the go that I'm not finishing any of them, and am going to start getting into the world of quilting, as I start a course on Thursday. My head is spinning with how much I should be doing.

So, for now, I'm concentrating on the day-to-day stuff. And today was great!

Hubby isn't playing football on Saturday's anymore, so we had the whole day together as a family....