{"id":640,"date":"2014-09-26T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/?p=640"},"modified":"2014-09-26T11:10:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T10:10:25","slug":"feeling-a-little-sorry-for-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/2014\/09\/feeling-a-little-sorry-for-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"The Law of Compensation &#8211; Rough and Smooth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life has one undeniable Law to keep us grounded, I find: the Law of Compensation.<\/p>\n<p>This is such a wonderful, exciting time for me. \u00a0We are deep into rehearsals for Singles&#8217; Holiday and to see it all taking shape is amazing. \u00a0And we are blessed and so fortunate to have Peter Dean and Donovan Christian-Cary join the cast. \u00a0Working alongside them is a joy and we are all learning so much. \u00a0And as a writer, suddenly &#8216;meeting&#8217; your characters is a strange, yet wonderfully fulfilling, experience. \u00a0It&#8217;s at the Brentwood Theatre, 13-17 October. \u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/www.brentwood-theatre.co.uk\/showdetail.php?seq=665<\/p>\n<p>And, Single All The Way is now having all the technical stuff done to it so that it will soon be available in paperback and on Kindle! \u00a0Exciting! And it&#8217;s with several reviewers who will bring out their reviews to coincide with the launch. \u00a0Scary!<\/p>\n<p>And, the Daughter is back from her holiday looking well and wonderful and it was so lovely to have lunch and a catch-up with her this week. \u00a0I just wish we saw more of each other&#8230;I miss having her around, but that&#8217;s what happens when your children grow up strong and independent; they move away.<\/p>\n<p>But, there have been a few downers, including a very distressing series of events with the Cousin (oops! Nearly typed something else there!) which has meant I&#8217;ve had to look for somewhere to live again. \u00a0\u00a0And someone has carved a pattern of swirls on my car with their keys. \u00a0Mindless! \u00a0All very\u00a0stressful and something has to give and unfortunately, I&#8217;m in bed today, feeling rough, rough, rough, with a sore throat, raving temperature and a top lip full of cold sores, which I only ever get when I&#8217;m run down. \u00a0Some TLC is the order of the day and I&#8217;m taking care of me and my needs.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I&#8217;m delighted and very grateful to say the mammogram I jokingly complained about last blog has come back negative &#8211; worth all the painful contortionism &#8211; and an old friend really rallied to help me this week, for which I am also extremely thankful.<\/p>\n<p>And now that Single All The Way is (almost) In the bag and the Singles&#8217; Trilogy is brought to an end, my thoughts turn to my next book&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life has one undeniable Law to keep us grounded, I find: the Law of Compensation. This is such a wonderful, exciting time for me. \u00a0We are deep into rehearsals for Singles&#8217; Holiday and to see it all taking shape is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/2014\/09\/feeling-a-little-sorry-for-myself\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[352,415,414,353,8,329],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brentwood-theatre","tag-donovan-christian-cary","tag-peter-dean","tag-single-all-the-way","tag-singles-holiday","tag-singles-trilogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}