Various

This week I have mostly been counting down to pay day. While I haven't been eating mayonnaise sandwiches and drinking only water, I have been tightening my belt, so to speak. I have however been enjoying tofu with kinako (soy bean flour), sugar and milk. It tastes like Weetabix.

Today I enjoyed the luxury of a haircut and bought a book, The Brothers Karamazov. I have started to read it and I am not sure whether it is a weird translation or just that Dostoevsky was ahead of his time by eighty years or more. It's a 130-year-old book but it reads like it could have been written last week. Marvellous so far.

My redraft of the novel is gathering pace and I think I am on the final draft now. It seems to be a matter of tidying up rather than rewriting whole sections (touch wood).

Now to put my laundry away and make the bed so I can sleep in it.