I was all geared up - parrot at the ready, Patrick instructed in his supporting role as Book Holder to the Gentry - for Pirate Day at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich when Life decided to imitate Art, which is why I am currently hopping around on crutches...
But as I could not get to the signing, the signing has very thoughtfully come to me - via an enormous parcel of books which I have to inscribe and return pronto...
You'd think signing books would be easy, but actually I find it requires enormous concentration when doing a whole pile or you find your mind wandering off the subject in hand...
Only the other day I was just about to sign myself Geraldine Mahoney for instance.
Although I have borne my husband's name for more than twice the length of time I carried my father's, suddenly there was my maiden name itching to come out of the end of my pen more than four decades after I surrendered it for a life of marital bliss!
Odd!
But as I could not get to the signing, the signing has very thoughtfully come to me - via an enormous parcel of books which I have to inscribe and return pronto...
You'd think signing books would be easy, but actually I find it requires enormous concentration when doing a whole pile or you find your mind wandering off the subject in hand...
Only the other day I was just about to sign myself Geraldine Mahoney for instance.
Although I have borne my husband's name for more than twice the length of time I carried my father's, suddenly there was my maiden name itching to come out of the end of my pen more than four decades after I surrendered it for a life of marital bliss!
Odd!