This Summer

I saw a lovely post on Elise's blog recently about her summer plans, sharing an idea that Rebecca wrote about.  Let's call it a summer to-do list.  But a fun one, not a naggy, horrible, "hoover under the bed and read the collected works of Charles Dickens for self-improvement" one.  So here's what I want to do this summer:

• Go to the Edinburgh Festival
• Make a complicated cake - possibly Dobos Torte. See here for a mega review of someone else trying it!
• Complete Project Bunny
• Have a smashing time at the Olympics
• Take my lovely new tent camping again
• Go to the football - either a pre-season Liverpool game or keep it local and go and watch Marine
• Try a Zumba class
• Have a picnic with Shell and Baby Jack because I just don't see the two of them enough
• Go on a Ferry 'cross the Mersey! Would you believe I've never been on it?
• Do or buy something a bit frivolous and not feel guilty about it
• Chill out.  I am becoming increasingly incapable of not checking my phone for texts/emails/tweets/Instagram updates/blog comments every 5 minutes.  I know it's a terrible habit.  I'll have to lock it in a box or something
• Write 15,000 more words of The Second Novel 
• Finally, if I can fit it in (cos my weekends are quite packed!), go to the zoo.  I've never been to the zoo.

And as it's a well-known fact that you should always start off a to-do list with something you've already done, just for the sheer satisfaction of having something crossed off, here are TWO things that I wanted to do this summer that I've already done! Yesterday, to be precise.

• Watch some outdoor theatre
• Book an autumn break with the girls from work

We're staying here in October and having 5 days of loafing around and crafts and walks and trips to York and Durham.  BLISS.

I shall update you all at the end of August.  Or perhaps mid-September, depending on the word count of the novel.  I may struggle with that one. I've totally lost my writing mojo.