The not sad at all corner.

We had a very good walk this morning (Tuesday) where we walked along by the harbour to have a long distance look at the Swash Channel and Studland. Why, I hear you asking? Well, have a look at this! https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/25877635.17th-century-shipwreck-excavated-studland-beach/ All those wet and windy days that brought me down uncovered this section of the wreck. So you can visualise it, the Swash Channel is pretty much in front of Brownsea Island and Studland Bay, where it was found, is off to one side.

Nothing sank while we were on our walk, but we did see a pair of greater crested grebes who didn’t want to be photographed and the RNLI out on training exercises, which is always fun to watch. Thankfully, they were fine about being photographed.

After that, we went home via the Chestnut Nursery which is a charitable nursery that provides sheltered volunteering for people with mental health issue and learning difficulties, so is very close to my heart. One of the many wonderful things about it is the knowledge of the staff and the least sad sad corner you’ll ever see. Most of them are plants that just need potting on, so I have a dormant oxalis and a low-growing saxifrage, both in 1 litre pots at £3-00 each instead of £7.99. As summer comes, I won’t be able to resist a monthly trip there because I’m helping others and having fun.

Yes, it was grey and breezy but great fun and the plants helped me to celebrate finishing the as yet untitled spring 207 Amy very rough draft. Now I know what I’m researching, which is always better than doing it the other way round and getting lost in research.

Thinking of books, these are this week’s special offers at 99p in the UK and 99c in the US.

Guardian Angel

Daymare -publication

Wasted on the Young

These are all under my pen name of Eleanor Neville, so a little darker and sexier but most grandma’s will be fine with them

Up the Garden path

A stitch in time

Prodigal Daughter (Christmas)

These are all Tia Brown and my cosy, crafty detective Amy Hammond, who married a not as retired as he’d like to be spy

The Wrong Twin

Kings of the Castle

A woman to be reckoned with

These are Tia Brown as part of my Oldcastle series, set in the little market town that doesn’t exist, but if you wanted to get a feel for it you could go and look at Wareham in Dorset, where I went to school for a couple of years.

So that’s that for this week. See you on Sunday with some mildly exciting news.