We knew rain was forecast this afternoon so it was a morning spent in the garden redoing a flower bed. Body is feeling it now!

Busy on learning and writing stories as suddenly it all seems to be taking off again. You don’t realise what you forget with what is really a year off! I know I have had some sporadic moments and I have recorded a few stories for libraries and schools. I also did a couple of outdoor gigs in August standing a long way from a socially distanced audience. I do have a good resource of stories that I tell so it has been enjoyable being reacquainted with them! I worry that my vocabulary has diminished with lack of use! I am currently writing a new story for young children for one of the schools who asked for a story on a specific theme. Fingers crossed I can still do it! Watch this space!

Yesterday’s answers to the Quiz on Canals.

a) The canals in Cambridge are called The Backs (technically they are not canals but rivers or branches of rivers with the flow slowed by weirs etc. They are at the back of some of the colleges- hence the name!)   b) Standedge Tunnel on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal is the longest in England and is 3.24 miles long   c) The Duke of Bridgewater is known as “The Father of Canals”.  d)  The Panama Canal is 82km or 51 miles long   e) Ferdinand de Lesseps is associated with the building of the Suez Canal

Will try and do another quiz tomorrow back to my writing now!