Your Day (apart from gardening) - what took place?

Do you try and have a talk with the people in charge of the carers?

 

Apart from the usual paperwork we've been going to flower and horticultural shows (it's that time of year) and helping them raise money for charity. Mainly the charity part is the flower shows which are usually for local churches and some smaller local charities. We give them plants for sale and books for their bookstall - from our plants for sale stock and our book stock that's stored for next Open Day.

We're in the midst of having overdone the dinner invitations and have had friends round for the last two nights and more coming today and tomorrow

 

Brilliant . Sounds good. When does it go on sale? Why not advertise it on here as I'm sure you would get permission?

Do you do all your own proof reading? Or is it just the final proof?

I found that doing my own original proof reading, no matter how careful I thought I was, was not all that successful. I found that out when I gave the proof to my sister (a many published poet and children's story writer) and she found quite a few errors and was also able to make suggestions. Then it went to a friend who was a writer, journalist and proof reader and he found some more!

 

That was the trouble I found. I thought I could do it easily but soon realised I was wrong - and mine were only guide books!

I haven't written any for years and there's only one still in print. A couple of years ago I took all the remaining books away from the wholesalers and now give them to specific shops to sell to raise money for Mountain Rescue. All donations go to the charity and they're selling about 50 per month, so should run out sometime in 2020