This week has been fairly disrupted and has somehow flown past without my notice. I spent Saturday afternoon building a new bed for the 9yo and most of Sunday recovering, as well as visiting my mother-in-law. The kids had an in service day on Monday and were off school, then Tuesday included a funeral for my much-liked neighbour. The service itself was in the morning, but it sat heavy on me for the rest of the day. 

Around life, I've been working on Chasing the Dawn, a secondary world fantasy novel that I'm really excited about and hope to finish by the end of the year. I've also been working on a copyedit for a client - which I'll be getting back to as soon as I've finished this post. 

I bought myself a new desk chair this week as my old one was getting a bit unstable. I was starting to worry it would fall apart under me. So at some point in the next couple of days (I really hope before I'm writing next week's post) I'll be putting that together and doing a big clear out of my tiny office. You'd be shocked at how much I can hoard in such a small space. 

Writing - Chasing the Dawn. I'm about 60k words into it

Reading - This week I've read A Healer's Guide to Adventuring by David Green, a gorgeous cosy fantasy due out on the 26th, and The Opposite of Murder by Sophie Hannah, a fun domestic thriller. 

Watching - Way behind the times with this, but I've finally got around to watching Broadchurch which I'm enjoying a lot. Excellent performances from everyone, but especially David Tennant and Olivia Coleman.

Movie Night - Mr K and I are currently working our way through the Final Destination franchise. All the beats of a slasher movie, but the enemy is Death itself. 

Listening - This week it's the Everest album by Halestorm

Something Interesting - If you're on Instagram, I highly recommend following Kenny Boyle. he makes great videos about Scottish culture past and present, like this one on the folklore and myth around White Stags