I was hoping to make more progress on my Earthsea novel Jade Dragon, but the only thing I managed to do was to relocate some of my paper notes after the builders made my bedroom into a waste ground. After the [expletive deleted] Windows XP computer debacle, I still don't have a computer connected to both the internet & my printer, nor any likelihood of one in future. Though we have purchased an uninterruptable power supply to stop lightning storms from deleting my files while I'm working on them remotely.

Given how busy I am between now and the end of the year, I probably need to restrict my energies to Yuletide, and even that is beginning to feel a bit goey, what with the moving 'n all...