Apparently the story about Legend Press's new edition of Remarkable Everyday containing my short story Monday, has also made one of our free local papers. And they've not hidden it either.

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seen the paper yet but apparently the story (complete with picture) is front page. It's also now on the paper's website here.

I don't know who's likely to have been more shocked. All the poor people who've had my ugly mug stare up at them from the doormat, or me when I found out about it on the school playground yesterday morning?!?

People were still commenting about it today. I was actually secretly quite glad when it rained on my parade, so to speak, for picking up time! A month's rain in one day, the local paper was warning and I have to say some of the roads had turned into fords where there aren't meant to be fords! But it does seem to have stopped now, so fingers crossed not as damaging as last year's flood.

Anyway, outdoor activity has been rather a risk for the past week so I have been enjoying the chance to immerse myself in some reading without feeling like I ought to be doing something more useful!

I've just finished the latest copy of Orbis. There are some excellent poems in it, as usual, and I was chuffed to find I'd gained honourable mention for my poem in the previous edition's readers' award. (Okay, so it's not first, second or third but it really is just nice to read feedback from people I don't know at all.)

I've also had a recent Amazon poetry binge and now have anthologies by Kathryn Simmonds, Allison McVety and Michael Symmons Roberts sitting on the sofa. I've just dipped into some of Symmons Roberts' The Half Healed. Delicious!