I’ve cycled in excess of 120 miles since yesterday morning so excuse any wobbles in my fingers. I haven’t cycled more than 35 miles in a day since October! I like to have a good reason for cycling long distances – eg fetching a newspaper from a little Welsh corner shop on a sunday morning. The news always seems better when you work hard for it…
Anyway the good reason this time was the opportunity to meet up with playwright, actor, poet and writer, Donna Gagnon, who’d nipped over from Canada to Shrewsbury to grab her man, Doug, and take him back with her. Donna I’d known for a couple of years through the writers’ community at BeWrite and she with Doug have helped me research the Magic Realism story I’m about to write, Xaghra’s Revenge. It may seem daft to cycle so far (50 miles from here to meet them in Shrewsbury, but I got overconfident with my memorised mapreading en route home – hence the extra miles!) but cycling energises my imagination and gives me time to think through plot issues and characters.
Donna took a snapshot just before I set off home.
