Carrie Baker – The Growth Collective

I haven’t written on my blog in so long, I’m am embarassed to confess it!

In my defence, I had actually been working on my novel up until the pre-Christmas/post-Christmas madness. I have to say, I was not at all prepared for Christmas in the UK.
Now, I am not for one moment saying that I didn’t love it, it was just much busier than I anticipated.

The children didn’t finish their school term till the week before Christmas, and that meant still doing all the usual school drop off and pick up in very heavy ‘pre-Christmas’ traffic and there were so many things on!

Also the fact that everywhere was busy. Everywhere! So my laid back Australian approach to Christmas totally didn’t work………..
But it was amazing to be surrounded by my UK family squished into out two bedroom flat, to enjoy my first cold Christmas and traditional English Christmas dinner.

I loved the cosines of a winter Christmas being rugged up and having Christmas lights on and it be dark enough to be able to see them!
And now you’re sitting there saying to yourself, “But Christmas was a month ago!”

Um, well yes…………

The post-Christmas madness really only lasts until New Years if that.

The beginning of January was spent wafting around the place, hoping the foul weather would end so we could get everyone out and about because we were all starting to climb the walls. 

And then give yourself at least 2 weeks to settle back into the whole ‘routine’ thing, which is hard when the two schools my children attend have their start dates a week apart.

In my ‘holiday from writing’ I read a few really great books, that have caused me to stop and think on my life. In a good way!

It was a series given to me by my lovely sister in-law, and have sat there on my shelf for months.

I picked one up a long while ago, and just couldn’t get past the first chapter.

But it’s funny how sometimes you pick up a book, and it’s the story you needed to read, right then in that moment.

And now here I am, finally, trying to put down some thoughts, but finding it difficult. 

I’m out of the way of it I guess……. Or maybe it’s because from where I am working, I can see two men and a removal van out the window. (I noticed them when I got back from dropping the children off at school)

 I’ve been watching these two all morning, they are currently having their third tea break and seem to be doing a whole lot of not much. 

People distract me easily……….
Now that I have had a break from writing for a while, I feel ready to jump back in with new enthusiasm, and that it was a New Years resolution!

Well, I best get back to work on my novel, it won’t write itself!

Just Write It!