A very busy couple of weeks with little time for writing - but quite a bit for thinking and planning. At the beginning of the month I had a few days walking the next stretch of the Wales Coastal Path - this time from Swansea to Llangennith, around the fabulous Gower coastline. The weather was kind to us and we tramped over clifftops, across beaches, through woods and farmland in warm sunshine; we've now completed 156 miles of the 882 total - so there's only another 726 to go! Should keep us usefully occupied for the rest of our retirement ...
But I've always found walking immensely liberating and inspiring; getting into a steady rhythm seems to simultaneously focus my mind and to free it. So I came back with plenty of ideas and enthusiasm. And being away also gave me some time to catch up on a pile of reading I've had mounting for a while. The message on Octavo's Bookshop wall in Cardiff when I popped in there seemed particularly apt -
Coming back brought the inevitable onslaught of daily life with a vengeance but also ushered in a few welcome activities, including the resumption of our Women For Woman poetry sessions in Hereford and a fascinating lunchtime talk in Penarth by the wonderful Owen Sheers about his poetry films Pink Mist, Green Hollow and To Provide All People. My guest on Thursday morning's NHSound programme proved very interesting too - the Caldicot writer Guy Farrish. If you haven't come across "Wolf!", his modern take on the old fairy tale about the three little pigs, do get hold of a copy - it's available on Amazon and makes for very entertaining (and, in the present climate, very pertinent) reading.
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