I've spent an interesting couple of days choosing illustrations for "Digging Up The Family". It's taken longer than I anticipated, as going through piles of family photos sidetracked me with monotonous regularity. And of course the eternal cry went up - "Why didn't they write names and dates on the back?"! Trying to identify the woman in the boiler suit in a WW1 munitions factory photo and the naval rating on board a converted minesweeper - when everyone who knew them has been long dead - proved quite a challenge. I just have to hope now that the publishers will find the photos are of a high enough specification to print acceptably.
I'm very much looking forward to the Cheltenham Poetry Society Awayday on Wednesday this week. It's being held at Dumbleton Hall Hotel near Evesham, a beautiful Cotswold stone 19th century country house with excellent facilities. And with John Betjeman having been a regular visitor there back in the day, it can't fail to provide plenty of poetic inspiration!
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