Happily Ever After
Life in The Rural Retreat with a beautiful wife, three cats, garden wildlife, a camera, a computer – and increasing amounts about running
Earlier posts can be found on Adventures of a Lone Bass Player, where this blog began life. Recent entries can be found here.
The Road To Nowhere
by admin - 20:00 on 08 March 2011
According to our revised schedule, The Bumper Book of Black Isle Snappery was to be back in the Highlands in the next few days.
So it was disconcerting to discover today that its unbound elements were stacked up in a corner of Norman and Co's printing works and going nowhere.
That's what Marten James was told when he phoned for a progress report. Norman is ill, he was informed, and no-one had the authority – or maybe just the gumption – to send the pages and covers away without his say-so.
James must have used his stern voice, for they're now on their way to Yorkshire, allegedly, to be bound and returned as soon as possible. With luck we'll have the books by the end of next week, although no promises were made.
Norman, doubtless, is suffering the stress of dealing with such a prestigious publication. Also a touch tense today was Bess, who left The Rural Retreat shortly after I returned from my own day of strain at GNoME HQ.
Mr Pheasant, snapped in May last year
Not long after her exit I heard Mr Pheasant shouting from beneath the bird feeder, followed by a plaintive meow from outside the door, just a few feet away. The cowardly cat needed me to open the door because she was unwilling to turn her back on Mr P to use the cat-flap.
Matchgirl wasn't there to help because she was ending a four-hour lunch in Inverness. No stress there, then.
Band Update: Shaker was together again yesterday evening. The new set is taking shape and a few potential gigs have been mooted. We'll be back on the road one day.
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