LIZ FIELDING

 It's always the weather

2026 started with some pretty gruesome weather. I know we're pathetic in the UK - in Canada and the US you go to work with countless feet of snow on the ground, but everything it set up for this because you're used to it. 

We don't get that kind of snow here, thanks to the Gulf Stream which keeps us warm and which will undoubtedly shift with the rising sea levels and give us a new ice age. So the trains stop running, the roads are a nightmare and working from home is not just us whinging. Honestly, it's safer all round.

However, we're back to rain this morning so I'll be taking the car out for a little run to perk up the battery before the cold returns later in the week. (That's the other thing - the weather changes on a sixpence.)

Slow start

I've had a slowish start to the new year.

I've heard from my editor that she loves the new book so, fingers crossed, I'll be able to give you more news about that very soon.

I've opened up the document for book five in the Maybridge Mystery series, working title, Murder at the Holly Bush Inn and words have been written.

I took a day off yesterday. I had an eye clinic first thing, then I met authors Jenny Barden and Paula Lofting for coffee at my local indie bookshop. Well, two cups - we were there for the best part of two hours!

Re-organising

I returned home to find a parcel with the new kitchen storage containers I'd ordered had arrived so I spent the afternoon clearing out kitchen cupboards, setting aside stuff for the charity shop and having fun filling the new containers and labelling them with the new labels that had also arrived.

The labels turned out to be American where the names are slightly different, but they are very pleasing and I know what they mean. These are just a few. All very satisfying. 

Back to work

It's going to be a busy year, I'll be writing a novella for an anthology with a group of fellow writers - here's one we did earlier -  as well as the new Maybridge Mystery, so it's back to work today.

I'll try and keep this weekly, but for now, enjoy the rest of your week and happy reading.