Please Excuse me

Do I have a excuse for the lack of blogs over the past months. I could lie and say that having paddled out to sea in a leaky canoe; intent on circumnavigating the local pier, I was suddenly swept away by a tempest to a small Caribbean Island that was inhabited by a mad religious sect of nudists.

Unhappy at being invaded by someone in shorts and T-shirt, they stripped me naked, tied me to a raft, made from coconut shells, then pushed me back out to sea with no provisions.

Six months later, having survived on seagull droppings and rain water, I finally beached on another Caribbean Island where the super rich laze around on their luxury yachts.

Unhappy at being invaded by a naked commoner I was given a pink wetsuit to wear, then frogmarched onto a cargo plane that took off the second I’d been handcuffed to a crate full of bottles of rum.

Eventually I was thrown out drunk as a skunk but, thankfully with a parachute on, to splash down where my adventure fist began. Home at last.

The truth is, despite entering writing competitions and putting a book of short stories together [still in progress] I had lost momentum and the discipline to keep up with all aspects of my writing. So, in short I’ve been somewhat lost at sea, but at least I kept my head above water.