DJ,

I’m definitely getting old.  Went to a ball on Saturday thrown by an old Uni friend and I’m still recovering despite spending most of yesterday catching up on lost sleep.  Gone are the days where I could party all night and still feel fit for action with 2hrs sleep.  No, these days any all nighters I pull, I tend to spend the next couple of days being really grumpy and sleep deprived.

It was great to catch up with my friends, sadly one person couldn’t make it because there was no one to babysit her adorable boys.  I was quite disappointed she couldn’t make it, but I guess once you have babies, your life is no longer your own.  You’ve got to finally join the ranks of the unselfish and enter the realms of adulthood.  Scary.  

To think, 12 years ago I graduated from University.  I had a certificate which told me I was educated, that the world was now my oyster and anything I wanted was mine.  How ill prepared I was, I who thought I knew everything, yet knew nothing.  As they say, with age comes wisdom.  I’d like to think that in the intervening years I’ve grown up a little bit.  One thing I have come to realse is that the more you know, the less knowledge you know you actually have.  My refrain these days is that ‘I know nating’

Before I forget to mention it, the whole reason for this post.  I know, that’s the other thing about getting older, your mind wanders and you can never tell a story without digressing, which is nothing new for me.  I like my little digressions, the only problem is that I tend to end up not making a lot of sense.  Anyway I digress again.  B & C have been handing out leaflets and extolling the virtues of Imagine This.  I’m now ‘famous’ according to those two, in Thornton Heath and Petersfield.  Well B, just happended to be telling a chap she plays cricket with all about my book when he pipes up and says he’s already read a review in the newspapers. B being B and scattier than me, she didn’t bother to ask what paper.  

So out there is a glowing review of Imagine This and I don’t even know what paper.  Am I going to start buying the papers from now on? No.  But I sure do wish I would.  I’m not going to read any press, unless I can’t avoid it, being the kind of person that I am. I’ve made the decision to avoid at all cost any reviews, on account that it won’t be good for my health.