Warmest congrats to IMOGEN BLYTH who has won the first Chances competition! I’ll post another one up very soon!
I’m having a wonderful – if exhausting – week.  Thanks to you, Chances sold 11,000 copies in just 3 days and rampaged into the charts at number 13. It’s utterly thrilling – and I’m extremely grateful to my lovely readers for supporting me because times are tough out there and your pennies are precious. Thank you.
I had great fun on Channel 5′s the The Wright Stuff yesterday – an hour and three quarters of live TV. I’ve done the show before – Matthew is a wonderful guy, always puts me at my ease and always brandishes a copy of my book for the cameras!  Thanks, mate!  If you missed it, you can watch it again on their website.  I’ve had many compliments about the little cardi I was wearing – it’s my fave and it’s by Nougat London.
Had a wonderful afternoon today – Georgia swam for the first time in our stream, discovering a pool that went up to her chin. On the bank, Felix and Twiggy made friends with…a snake. I hopped up and down shrieking from the other bank – but it turns out it was a grass snake, now a ‘pet’ called April Shy.

This weekend, I’m off to the Parelli Celebration of Natural Horsemanship in Birmingham – a real highlight of my year. Next week, busy busy with radio, a talk in St Albans and more TV – the Vanessa Show, on Channel 5 next Friday 15th. Which just so happens to be my darling Felix’s 10th birthday…

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