Sunday: Five and Two are fighting on the bed while I am talking to a friend of mine who wonders why her relationships with men always end when she takes a home-baked carrot cake around the day after their first date. Two smacks his teeth on edge of the bed and one front tooth is at alarming angle. Renowned for my calm, I push it back and hear it click into place. Have to resusitate friend and take her to hospital. I tell Two we are going to the dentist. He says, "Don't even think about it daddy." Five goes, "Will the dentist use a drill?" which sets Two off again. Friend awakes from near coma, sees Two's blood on my t-shirt and faints. At dentists, alarmed looking Chinese man in gown won't go near screaming Two and says, "I'm sure it will be fine, but if it isn't it will go black." Nice.
Monday: Media training - one of the attendees who thinks he looks good in his internet clothes seems to be going steady with himself. Cut him down to size, of course, thanks to in-depth research which revealed amongst other things he was once arrested for having sex with underage girl in Perth. Not so cocky after that.
Tuesday: more media training.
Wednesday: more media training
Today: writing feature for big corporate on how to implement IT packages - zzzzzzzz, oh sorry, I must have dozed off.

Meanwhile, back to the crime element, if you will. I've decided to go for a gob-smackingly big literary prize of over $200K for which you have to submit an unpublished crime novel. I have to get going on this because all I have at the moment is an idea, and only three weeks to write it all and get it sent off...Yes, I know, three weeks! But I figured I worked on Fleet Street where I made up, sorry wrote, stories all day long while being surrounded by drunks, tarts, slappers and a man who downloaded so much porn it once brought the operation to a standstill for four hours. Where they get these editors I don't know. Anyway, I must be able to do it. Also, I love a challenge.

So, I'm going to do no posting for the next three to four weeks (so, what's new, I hear you ask) though I am going to post an instalment of GONE every day (the latest is just up now), so if you're interested, go and have a look. The link is on the last post I did here.