Sometimes you need to sit back and let someone else do the talking for you. So here are my photos …

It started with a weekend walk with Ken Titmuss, who does guided trails round parts of London using 18th century maps.

Ken added a whole new dimension to an area I thought I knew well. I highly recommend one of his walks.

Then to Whitstable, for a reading from the jaw-droppingly wonderful Wise Words team. It was all I could have hoped for, and more. I cried when one highly-published member of the audience said that we had reminded her of just how important writing can be, particularly in the community. Thank you everyone who came…

Sadly, the above isn’t the remains from our supper, but here is the Whitstable dawn I woke up to the next morning…

Then my research into the alternative signage we’re planning for Dane John Gardens on Tuesday uncovered the fact that someone has got there before me…

So I got the train up to London to meet with Viccy Adams who introduced me to And Other Stories, a publishing company with a difference. In the circumstances, Viccy’s badge seemed very appropriate…

We’ve both been doing an Arvon/NAWE coaching class with talented and lovely writers from all over Britain (and abroad). It finished yesterday and resulted in this…

HURRAH!

And there ended an exhausting and almost perfect week. I spent last night on the sofa watching the Olympic ceremony and am still not quite sure if I was dreaming or not…

Good though, wasn’t it? And also to see the creative and public sectors getting their proper recognition – I’d like to live in that feminist, funny, union-supporting, caring, eccentric, enterprising, ‘leftie, multi-cultural’ Britain.

Perhaps, with proper coaching, I will one day – does anyone know a coach????