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Dad's is a noisy place today! Despite the fact that he lives about half a mile from the high street, and two streets from busy roads, the buildings muffle the sound a good deal, which often makes his house quieter than mine (which is in open fields and you can hear one car coming and going for about five miles radius) but today there's bin men rushing around with a constant beeping of the lorries and airplanes going over head really low. Also they must be resurfacing the road because there's a constant metallic churning coming from somewhere, and now there are police sirens roaring up and down like it's New York, not a market Norfolk town! Gah! Let a person think! However, it's SUNNY – caused by the stiff breeze and it might be blooming cold but after literally weeks of thick cloud, it's lovely to see the sun. ETA: sun gone by lunchtime. weep.

Dad has a temperature, and OMG do you think I can get him to go to bed and rest? He's worse than a 2 year old, which i suppose he is, in a way. Now the paracetamol have kicked in and the temperature has gone down, of course he doesn't even believe there's anything wrong with him. I have a headache. I hope it's not flu—because I'll be pretty annoyed if it is, as he's never had flu in his life, and this year he had a flu jab for the first time.

I noticed today that an agent was putting out a call for "Adult Fiction" – this made me raise my eyebrows in surprise, because it's pretty rare an agent asks for erotica, but then I saw that she normally represents Young Adult Fiction, and so she was just meaning "Fiction" and not porn. :D

Muffled Drum has to be in tomorrow without fail, so here I go, rolling my sleeves up and Getting On With It. You can tell, can't you?

Eta: Two scenes down, one to go. When I get home I'll do some research regarding street names and Absinthe being available in Berlin at the time- and I need the name of another Prussian liquor. It's so boring to use schnaps and brandy all the time – they must have had something else!!

Now at home, sent dad to bed, finally – will ring him later and see how he is. *worries *