This afternoon I was deep in new book edits when O’s baby...

This afternoon I was deep in new book edits when O’s babysitter returned early. I confess, I wanted to stay with the book (I get a little tunnel-vision when I’m on a tight deadline) but O wanted to go into the garden and play. So I switched off the computer and took him into the sunshine. At first my thoughts were still with the book, but I brought myself back to being with him and we spent a lovely late September afternoon picking apples, foraging for mushrooms and kicking up leaves. We went on adventures and found fairies hiding in trees. Three hours and many bedtime books later, O was asleep and I returned to my own book, feeling all full of love and freshly inspired to write…