I have never really been bothered with Hallowe’en so I didn’t join in with the festivities last night, choosing instead to work on a script idea I have been knocking around for a while. As regular readers will be aware, I am a big fan of naff 1970s sitcoms and in particular On the Buses. Based on an idea I had a while ago, I have started to throw some ideas around for what will be partly a remake, partly a spoof, and partly a tribute. My office is upstairs so any visiting trick or treat participants could be dealt with by Mandi, who had a bowl of sweets at the ready, and Jack, who barks like crazy thing when someone opens our front gate and goes apeshit when there’s a knock at the door. As it turned out, nobody called so I was able to eat a rather large amount of fizzy Haribo sweets.

Mandi was aboard the time-and-a-half wagon this morning, so I decided to do some more work and try to get caught up (we’re going away next week and although I have put my foot down and said that I will continue with my blog, I will not be doing any proper work). Although I had written a to-do list of things to try and accomplish today, I didn’t quite manage but it didn’t matter because something happened today that caused me elation beyond my wildest dreams – I finished recording the audio book of Whatever Happened to Nathan McKenzie?

There is the slight worry that the audio book could be too long for Bandcamp as I do not know if they have any kind of time/length limit on an album, if this is the case it won’t be the end of the world as I will just have to release the book in more than one part. Due to it being my brother’s novel I have recorded I do not feel it is fair to make it available for free with the option to pay what the customer wants. I will be charging a fee for this particular book so that Jack (my brother, this is nothing to do with my dog) and myself can be rewarded for our hard work; he spent four years writing it and I have recorded an audio version that was six hours long at the last check. My share of the money will however be going into my fund for making other free online projects such as short films and podcasts.

Realising that I was finally at the end of what has been an exhausting project, I decided to kick back and not allow myself any pressure, especially not on a Saturday. After ceremoniously sitting back with my feet up on the desk, cocking my Trilby hat to a jaunty angle and lighting a cigar, I remembered that I neither own a Trilby hat nor do I smoke cigars. I nipped out and had a cigarette on the doorstep instead, hatless but happy.

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