That sounds like great fun, rowanw.
For me, well little Laking Tyke (our sm. black mongrel rescue terrier from Limoges S.P.A.) has made yet another appearance and I now have a 5th story about him. ( For children aged 5/6/7 yrs.)
This time, after picking up a toad on his walk and getting a horrible taste in his mouth, he woke up in the night to find that a copy of a book had fallen off a shelf and all the characters were spilling around the living room. It was 'The Wind in the Willows' and the scene was the battle with the weasels at Toad Hall, so Tyke joined in to fight the weasels. All OK until Dad switched the light on and there Tyke was - barking and standing on the coffee-table. Oops! Tyke had to make up one of his rhymes to explain it. - I forgot to say that he makes-up rhymes too.
Otherwise, I was delighted to discover today that the local paper has published a short story of mine on the theme of people being isolated by lack of technology and know-how, which has been the subject of a lot of letters recently.
I'm plugging away at putting a novel I wrote in the 1970s onto the computer and amending it as I go - up to 8K words now.
On Monday morning I'm starting on a 6 week course on Creative writing (characterisation and plot) run by the L.A. and coached by a professional writer. I get on free because I'm O.70!!! But it'll cost me enough in parking fees.
I've finished, sent off and have had accepted by a small local mag. a couple of short articles on our church (very early Norman).
That's me at the moment. I'm mulling over a short story on the theme of Pirates (homework set by the writing group I go to).
No wonder I'm a bit tired, I hadn't realised I've done so much on top of my local What's On stuff. Good to be busy.
I'll let you know about this course. :)