A Book? Yeah Right ....!

 

Isn’t there a saying which goes something like 

“ If you want something doing, give your job to a busy man ( Woman)”?

I’m back at work today, which is timely, and last night, after nearly three weeks enforced isolation inactivity, I left choir halfway through our zoom meeting, ignored Bake Off ( which has become incredibly boring without the more interesting characters ) and in a surprisingly short four hour period organised and plotted out my book of Going Gently

Seeing the words written down, is an odd feeling.

Mainly because the sentence looks incredibly pompous 

The book won’t be any work of art. ( of course it bloody won’t) but it may be  a frothy, light and hopefully occasionally moving version of Going Gently’s better bits. 

Cherry Picking fifteen years in the life  of a middle aged Gay man, who left a status job in a much loved Northern City to play at the role of county gent, smallholder and smug Village Linda Snell won’t be easy, but after a bit of playing around, some unsurprising dramatic licence ( !) some judicial cutting and pasting, the Skeleton of a plan has been made. 

And all in four hours sat at the kitchen table...going through broad chapter titles and flicking through lists in filofax notebooks.

Now all I need is a title. 

Going Gently is already the title of a very mighty fine novel by David Nobbs and so I feels prudent not to reuse it even though that may well be the way forward .....has anyone any ideas ? 

Answers on a postcard please! 

I shall leave you with a brief video taken this morning. It shows Dorothy’s progress with Walking ALL ON HER OWN ...I found my voice towards the end of the film....