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Two books and four A1 information panels at the printers now means that I have some time to do what I used to do before writing/layout took over my life!

I must admit, though, I don't like endings ... and completing the archaeology projects is an ending. I'm doing my best to look on it as a start - clearing the way for new things to come along now that I've proven to myself that I can write lil books for children and longer books for growed up children . I do need a lil while before the next projects appear, however ... just to rediscover what I like to do.

Other things are changing too ... counselling has me wondering who I am, as I'm patently not what so many people have tried to convince me I am to keep me 'under control' and to fit their expectations. For instance, I was told as a young person I was no good at art 'not like your older sister and brothers', and that is not true.

It's a well weird place to be in as my name doesn't seem to fit me anymore, I sometimes really don't know who I am, I catch myself slipping backwards into well worn patterns of behaviou (comfort eating mainly) and know I've not stepped over the edge from the 'rogrammed me' to the 'real me', the real me that's been waiting a long time to surface and to show herself, but she's shy, uncertain, self-conscious, and so on.

I'm questioning what I do for a living and whether it is right for me, and how I can balance that with what is right for me until other opportunities present themselves.

There's been a lot of revelations, not least of which has been 'anything is better than something' is an old way of thinking that must go ... it's a painful one that one too.

But progress is made, lil by lil...

I have a lot of thanks to say to all you good people who've added my works to your favourites and befriended me - THANK YOU ALL!

And I'll have a lil drawing to upload later. I must get around to sorting out a print programme thingy too ...