Absence Explained

The best reason I can think of for my lack of writing over the past month - despite having several subjects I wanted to cover - is to simply blame the heat. Well, primarily the heat and secondarily that I've been doing other things.

The heatwave has been problematic for me because I don't deal well with high temperatures - I need to be kept cool and well watered or I have a tendency to wilt. However, the problem is that not only is the house entirely south-facing but it also retains the heat very well. Most houses in the UK do - they're more designed to deal with the winter cold than the summer heat. My tendency when I have come home recently has been to collapse on the bed with the fan on, and have typically read or played on my phone instead of sitting at the computer.

The other reason is in part down to the reading - since my last update at the beginning of June I've now caught up entirely with the Game of Thrones books. I've managed to finish the ones Chrissi owned - she had four, the first two books and then the third book's two halves. I have got through these and then added to them with the fourth book and then the two halves of the fifth book. I'm now waiting for the sixth (and last) book, which has the drawback of having not been written - although there was a teaser of a chapter at the end of the fifth book, which didn't help at all! Nothing is resolved and more of the characters I liked are dead, and there seems to be endless amounts of wandering around going on - hopefully this will all lead to something at the end, but I have to wait a while to find out.