No time to sit still at the moment. We’re preparing the house for sale, and this weekend I stained more than 100 square meters of deck (over a thousand square feet for those of you who haven’t gone metric). One more weekend of hard push, and we’re ready to go.
In addition, I finished writing an application for the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, which provides a grant for New Zealand writers to live in Menton, France, for a few months, and work in a room in the villa where our famous writer Katherine Mansfield lived in 1920, Villa Isola Bella. Who knows how that will go? But gathering all the material together has been a useful exercise, and the letters of support I received from those I asked were very good for my ego.
