…I had set my alarm wrong. Going to bed absolutely exhausted at 3 I had somehow set the alarm for 4.45 rather than 8 o’clock! This spaced-out weariness does not bode well for me having written anything particularly pretty in my final chapters, but -to be honest- I wanted only to sleep.
The last few weeks of book-writing have been so, so busy and it is a delight that they are over.
Book 2 is finished. I hope it’s OK!
People have been so kind about my first book that I have felt nervous about the pressure of matching up to that level. I really hope it is OK…
But, at least, this is really the end of the ‘Round the World by Bike’ days. What on earth am I going to do for the next 40 years…