My wife found me stripping woodchip wallpaper in our spare bedroom. “Why are you doing this, you hate decorating and you are doing it all wrong?”
“Because I want a summer house to write and read in down in the shady part of the garden. Before I can put up a summer house I have to get rid of both the dilapidated shed. Before I can dispose of the sheds I need to make room in the garage to house the lawnmower, spare bikes and essential (maybe) bric-a-brac. To make room in the garage I have to dispose of its largest incumbent – dissembled bunk beds. To put those bunk beds in the spare room, it needs to be decorated first.
I was doing it wrong. I should have paid a professional.
Great 
news for the publishing company, Adventure Books of Seattle, for whom I do editing. The true-life account of DB Cooper who skyjacked an airplane in 1972, jumped out with the money over the Rockies and never caught is called Into The Blast see here. A TV programme company is working with Robert Blevins and PI Skipp Porteous to make a programme about the book and the research that went into it. I only edited the book so I don’t expect to be involved but I’m chuffed to bits for Robert, who did and still does an enormous amount of research (including travelling up and down the Rockies in winter snows).
Intrigued and British? Then you can buy Into the Blast on the UK Amazon site here.
