Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Normal service will be resumed in the spring

Like a shabby resturant at a holiday resort, I'm pulling my shutters for the winter. A blog dedicated to the delights of sunshine during the cold, damp dreary months, is destined to have a desperate time of it. Hold on, has had a desperate time of it, through the cold, damp dreary months of summer. Who, I ask you, really wants me droning on through the winter? It might be nice for the fortunate anonymous to send us sunny dispatches from down under, but that would only be rubbing it in. Imagine the helioholic hibernating (not, alas, migrating), in some dark musty cave of self-pity until spring time. Spring which will bring the publication of my lovely Sunshine book in paperback. And finally, I'm glad to say, with a sub-title that doesn't make my flesh creep with embarrassment. 'Why we love the sun'. Why do we? I'm glad you asked me, read all about it in etc...

And yet, I'm not hibernating quite. I'm cooking up a wee venture that I've just launched called 'But some of us are looking at the stars'. That'll keep me busy (I may even post more regularly there), and give me more scope to pontificate, during the winter months. More candlelight than sunlight, as you will see if you visit me at http://arkofromance.blogspot.com/ and join in. See you sunshine lovers in the spring...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Autumm-Winter recess, eh.

'Midst the helter-skelter of leaves, rain etc. may you get some unexpected splashes of sunshine.

Yer book hasn't turned up in the bookshops here yet, btw.

J

The Helioholic said...

well, i sincerely hope i have a good old dollop of sunshine in morocco at christmas. i'm not surprised the book hasn't turned up in oz bookshops, there's a prize for finding it in uk ones. also, do australians really want to read about sunshine? i doubt it, but then the cloudspotters guide sold well over here. why, i don't know. do come over to my romance blog during the winter. i think you will find it of interest.