By Slanted Light

And that's not even counting the wee kittens snippet,

The kittens! For a second there I thought what kittens? but must have been thinking of the family of black kittens (plus mum) I saw emerging from behind a tree in the snow one magical lunch hour from work in Hyde Park. It was surreal, they just kept coming and I wish someone else had been there to share the experience and tell me I wasn't dreaming.

Do you know what stumped me in that piece of writing and for the next 14 years? I wanted Doyle to meet Bodie in the lodging house they were sharing (in Londonistan) but I couldn't work out how to engineer that meeting. One thing I've learnt is it helps to know *what* you want to write about - to at least have a rough idea of where you're going - before you search for the words to describe the visual outline you already have in your head, because I can definitely see them!

And on that note I'm going to have my cheese roll...