Cities: Have you been here?

Just spent a time-wasting 15 minutes or so proving how widely travelled I am (or not) by completing a Trip Advisor 'cities you've visited' app. Given that Hopton on Sea was in the database I'm a tad sceptical about their definition of city - Ushuaia, for that matter, and Iguacu, are hardly mega urbs.... anyway, if the html thingy will play ball it'll be there for all to see.

• Create your own travel map.

OI! YOU UP THERE! PRESS PAUSE!!

I just dropped in to see if anyone had commented on my blog (they hadn't) and realised that nine days later it's STILL raining and Malaga has had huge coverage in the local press and media because of the landslips, flooding,damage, etc.. .... .... and I thought of one thing. PRESS PAUSE, weather-fairies!!!!!!

Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head.............

..........and just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed, nothing seems to fit, tra la la la la la la !!! Actually this is something akin to cabin fever - and with the amount of water dropping on S Andalucia at the moment, a cabin might be the best place for some of us. Water running down mountains, waterfalls where there should be pretty hillsides, bridges UNDER water, mudslides, OMG. None of which is a jot to do with Russia, which is my subject of the moment. I'm amazed - though perhaps I should be proud rather than amazed - that one of the major publishing groups in Russia is looking to come to a translation deal on Pause Button Therapy. Crikey! International readers NOT just in English! Ok that was my news of the moment. Back to the flood. Literally. There are drips falling from the beam to my right and to my left. Ho hum. Saludos Fiona

Pause for Thought

As one for whom deadlines was part of my profession several lifetimes ago, I'm now making quite a meal of having them appear sometimes on a daily basis once again. Close, tight, deadly deadlines I seem able to meet. Ok sometimes with panic and much huffing and puffing, but I meet them nonetheless. Example: Today I knew I had to create three more paragraphs for a piece to be issued by the Press Association. So I did them. Overlooking that in front of me when I made notes was black and white (pixellated, but black and white nonetheless) evidence that in face the publishers wanted to let the PA have five, so they had an element of choice. Five. Not three. A mad dash and much cursing later, the five had been sent. Own fault. No excuses. I said when we took on the PBT project that I would make the research and references something to do more diligently, efficiently and potentially swiftly. Which I did......... diligently efficiently and swiftly enough? Of course not. Come the GMB book (hopefully you know what I'm talking about) and I made a mental note to increase that diligence etc by several factors. Which I did. Enough, though? Nope. Book 10 I might be approaching the right level of focus! On which, a change of tack. Excitement, or what? We've got a foreword by Prof Philip G Zimbardo, eminent and well-known psychology expert, he of the Stanford prison experiment, the marshmallow experiment, Time Paradox, et al. All we have to do is sell *cough* rather a lot of books and at reprint stage it'll slot in. For the US POD version it's already there........ along with his name on the front cover! Yay! Woah! And other 21st century outbursts! Oh, and today we got news that mega Russian publishers (remaining nameless until deeds done, contracts signed, Ts crossed etc) have approached for a translation deal. Crikey let's hope they want (that other book I'm also blogging about on an intermittent hopefully-to-be-stepped-up-a-gear basis) too. Right let's publish this and be damned. Not. !! Saludos and Пока на данный момент Fiona