Week 10: Return of the back (problem)
Hurrah for the Kobo Mini, small and light enough for me to pace around the flat with as I try to get some muscles working, and to hold above my face as I lie down and take the pressure off my errant spine. Believe me, it's not nearly so easy with a thick paperback.
That got me thinking about buying books, and I realised that apart from half a dozen bought as Christmas presents for friends and family, OneMonkey and I didn't buy a single brand new physical book in 2016. Between us we bought 7 or 8 ebooks, having received Kobo vouchers for Christmas 2015, and we definitely bought a few books from charity shops for ourselves (and a selection of second-hand books for other people), but mainly we've been reading either library books (including ebooks), or books we've been given. Disloyalty to the book trade?
With the help of a laptop on a plastic crate that doesn't wobble too much, placed on a kitchen worktop by OneMonkey, I've been able to finish writing a rumination on what it is about the north that inspires me, which I hope to be able to point you at a link to fairly soon. One thing my dayjob did have, a sit-stand desk so I could crank it up to standing height when I couldn't bear to sit in a chair any longer. It occurs to me I could do with something similar at home. The kitchen worktop is wonderfully distraction free (if you don't count the kettle and the tea-caddy) but sometimes it's useful to have the computer in a room the wi-fi signal reaches.
The first story submission of 2017 was made this week, organisation continues for the Chapel FM Writing on Air festival (specifically the writing workshop we're hosting at Seacroft library at the end of the month), and at the start of the week I wrote a few midweek blog posts, the first of which you've already had (thankfully, I'd scheduled it). Oh, and I finally read Pride and Prejudice since it was lurking on the Kobo and I had a lot of reading time on my hands. It was alright actually, quite amusing in places - maybe I should go lie down again.