Good morning, friends and fans!
Welcome to the first “Peek Into My Week” for the new year, a behind the scenes look into the (I hope) noteworthy events in my past week – January 4, 2022!
Happy belated New Year to all my friends and readers! Over the past week or so, I’ve been taking a lot of time off, relaxing. There have been a few thing’s I’ve been occupied with, and I’ll be telling you about them shortly.
Here then, are some things that happened this past week:
News About Writing & Publishing:
It’s been understandably very quiet over the silly season, with the only news I’ve received publishing-wise, being that the audiobook for “Opsaal” is now in review on ACX for release on Audible! Release should take place in the next week or so, and I’ll be sure to let you know when it is!
As I explained previously, I’ve sold my old Beetle and have my eye on a modern replacement. More about that another time, but suffice to say, I’m finally looking at buying my very first ever new car! I’ve decided to put down at least a 50% deposit to keep the monthly payments as low as possible, and in order to do this, I have to augment the amount I got for Dolly with whatever loose change I can lay my hands on. This necessitated a purge of white elephants, obsolete or unused items taking up closet, garage, basement and attic space at home – and therefore, a pretty busy, ongoing Facebook marketplace garage sale! So far it’s gone very well, and I’m currently a little less than R4000 shy of that goal!
In the meantime, however, I’ve had to perform one last maintenance task on Dolly, that is to replace the clutch cable! The old one decided that now was a good time to snap, just to make life difficult and greasy for me, as though out of spite. I could hardly be expected to get the old girl up the ramp of the car-carrier without a clutch, could I? Nevertheless, that last dirty job done, I can send the old car on to its new owner (who has much more dosh to lavish on her than I do) with a clear conscience and a hefty sigh of relief!
That done, I’ve started to do things I actually wanted to do again, such as to clean up and reorganize the garage! You see, having had old cars like Dolly for so long, what was intended all along to be a garage had evolved into a rather cramped spare parts store-room-cum-workshop! Now that Dolly is on her way out, and I’m getting a new car I don’t plan to have to do anything mechanical on, I have no need for spare parts shelves cluttering up the garage space! A few years ago I also relocated my workshop, which I use to make things as a hobby, to the other end of the house, so now that I’ve broken down the shelves and moved all that stuff out, there’s so much more space in there! A lick of paint lies in the future too, I can assure you!
With that, I’m all out of news for this week! I wish you all a wonderful, restful day, a happy new year – and until next time, keep reading!
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