Friday 10th November – Day 117
We faff around in the morning and I crack on with my novel as we wait for the car hire company to arrive. Can you believe it’s cheaper to hire a car than to go by train! Firstly, because it’s so expensive and secondly because you cannot rely on public transport here and they say they want us to help the environment… erm, me thinks that is not really a serious item on our governments agenda! But that’s by the by… ((Okay, I agree but less ranting please Peachy!))
We collect the car and then go back to the boat, parking in a nearby farmshop carpark which is near the junction at Great Haywood where we have moored the boat. We then grab all our washing, ((or laundry)) as we have towels, bedding and clothes to wash and our twin tub isn’t really up to towels and bedding. We find this amazing launderette not too far away with wonderful staff.
The chap who runs it tells me he used to live in Kenya and ran a business which hired out tractors to farmers and how he’d been now running this launderette in Stafford for 30 years! That’s one of the things I love about this life, you just meet so many interesting people you would just never normally meet living in one area for a long time.
I’m lucky as I kept some change from selling my books back in July as the machines only take coins. Something to remember when using some laundrettes. Once done we nip to the shops and make the most of having a car to ferry things back to the boat. Just as it’s about to go dark we trudge over the bridge and back down the towpath to deposit everything back at the boat.
It’s so satisfying to get all these jobs done. I manage to sneak in a bit more writing in the evening and finally passed the 40k mark on the jersey novel so very happy with that.
Wordcount 1,527 total 14,763
Published by C.L. Peache
After living in various parts of the UK, including Wakefield, York, Derby, and the Yorkshire Dales, I now live on a Narrowboat cruising the canal network. I enjoy reading, writing, travelling, walking, kayaking, watching all forms of motorbike racing and socialising (networking).
At the beginning of my writing journey, I started my blog which tracks the ups and downs of writing. ((I need to mention that my blog posts are usually visited by ‘Brackets’!))
To the books…
My fantasy series, Festival of Time was completed with the publication of Book Three: Battle in November 2022 and now joins, Book Two: Rescue, and Book One: Escape. Click ‘books’ on my website to find out more and follow me on social media for updates – I love chatting with readers and authors.
In 2021 I joined Saga Fiction and now have three stories published on their app; A Christmas Wish, Decisions, Decisions, and A night lost to the past. Power of Nature a thriller/mystery novel is available on eBook. Finding Love, is my latest romance/rom-com novel and is available as an eBook and paperback on Amazon.
I’m part of a wonderful writing group based in Newark; The Fosseway Writers and have stories in various anthologies including; The Brinwade Chronicles, which is a collection of 28 Gothic stories by 13 writers. Burning Old School Ties, Blood, Sweat and Typewriters and our latest book, Writings on the Walls, Available on Amazon.
In February 2019 I was lucky enough to travel to New Zealand. During my time exploring this wonderful part of the world I kept a journal and this became 187 Kilometres, turn left – which is a guide to our 43-day bucket list adventure. Available on Amazon.
In December 2018; Game of Souls I published my first horror novella. Available on Amazon.
Current projects:
SagaFiction: Mystery/thriller novel based in Jersey
I’m very excited to start rewriting my psychological series, which will hopefully be published in 2024!
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