I had a lovely email from Nicole *waves* yesterday and she mentioned that she was a bit shy when it came to contacting authors. I can fully understand this, I never wrote to a single one during the time I was just an avid reader. Notice that after only two months I now consider myself to be an author *laughs*. The point being that since joining the group I’ve got to corresponded with the owners of the sites that I consider myself to be a fan of, and they are all really nice people. Very approachable and friendly, and authors looooove feed back, so you shouldn’t feel afraid to drop them a line to show your appreciation and any comments you have. Montgomery Street are positive sluts for it – No, I’m not being cheeky. They said that not me, go see for yourself. Yes there is a reason I’ve added that in – I know for a fact that Montgomery has written a new story – he did it for me! It’s the first time anyone has written anything for me - and I’m excited, very, very, pleased and honoured, and excited. Tiny problem – the gentleman in question and his partner in crime, the lovely Sulya, update their site when they have three stories to post. At this moment in time, they’ve only got two. Sulya is waaay ahead in the story writing stakes, you may like to look at the snippets (she wrote three of them) – personally I love Multicultural. Moaning and whining have absolutely no effect on Montgomery, and believe me I’ve tried – he’s immune. Now if his fans would just drop him a few lines to say how much they appreciate both him and Sulya, he might just get his finger out and update the site.

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I had a really interesting time on Saturday night. I’m not going to write too much about it now I want to wait until we’ve all got the photos together, and then I’ll post a few with the blog. There was a lot of activity and we made contact with a total of five ghosts using the Yes/No technique. Funnily enough I wasn’t frightened. I was quite happy to wander through the pub in the dark on my own, although a couple of the group were a bit nervous and stayed together. I picked up on several things, including a name which popped into my head. Anyway, I tell you more later this week.

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Isn’t it funny how something reminds you of someone and it makes you laugh. Persil have a new advert out at the moment that reminds me of my friend, Chris. Now some of you will now Chris already, but for those of you that don’t – he told us a little while ago about the time he was graded on his ability to be a penguin at drama school. I think the person who designed the advert must have read about this. The advert starts off with a small boy standing up and stating he wants to be a fireman when he grows up, next small boy stand up and says he wants to be a Policeman. This is followed by a little girl standing up and stating she wants to be a penguin. She visits the zoo and everything. It’s a shame that the little girl wasn’t a little boy wearing glasses – but you can’t have everything. I’ve found this link (http://www.visit4info.com/static/advert_pages/37726.cfm?back_page=advertiser_pages/PersilRange.cfm) to show you. Unfortunately you have to pay to watch it, but you can see want I’m talking about.