A Few Days Sojourn

It's time to go away again, for a few days, and so you, the notional and perhaps unhinged readers of the Quirky Muffin, will have to make do with some pre-written posts. A few television reviews will certainly keep the blog ticking over until The Story picks up again next week. 'Wordspace' could well be the one thing that transcends the rest of the blog, if it doesn't run itself into a cul-de-sac first!

Yes, there shall be a brief sojourn far, far away. A long coach journey awaits, with all the wonderful enforced isolation and reading that that entails. Long coach journeys are little bubbles of slow time in between the manic bubbles of every day activity that we call life. Sometimes, I wonder just how we all manage to bodge our lives to the extent that there's rarely time to read a book without a thousand chores hanging over your head and upsetting your mental state. On the other hand, this post is being written to the accompaniment of a lovely and silly episode of 'Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea', which is a sign of decadent free time, isn't it? Yes? No, for it is multi-tasking, but it could be far, far worse.

So, what do people do on a long coach trip? Well, you stare out the front window, read books, edit down serial stories into single pieces, catch up on French, and think about whatever tangential nonsense comes to mind. Chasing down tangents is a fine and traditional means of passing the time. It can easily be imagined that stagecoach drivers had more inventive and diverse thoughts in a few days of historical journeying than most other people had in whole years of their lives! For my part, I might be getting on with sorting out the compiled version of 'The Disappearance' or be caught in eight hours of dozing or even trying to do puzzles. Only time will tell.

Normal service will resume in the middle of next week.

O.