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Dearest Friends,
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas. I was hoping to write, but unfortunately, I got rather sick with the flu, and I've been tucked up in bed until today. This morning, I safely made my way downstairs, and now I'm on the sofa in front of the fire with a nice cup of tea and a mince pie.
As soon as I began to feel unwell, I suggested to Quentin and Robin that they might like to spend Christmas at the lovely house in Burton Agnes that they visited in the fall. I was sure the owners wouldn't mind, for who could resist such visitors?
I just received a message from them today, and I can't wait to share it with you. Robin's new roll of colour film was a hit, and he has taken the most lovely pictures!
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News about Book 3, Into The wild Woods
Because I've been unwell, I have fallen behind on editing and completing all the final details of my new book. If you have preordered a copy, I'm afraid the shipping date will slip from February to the end of March/beginning of April. I don't have the exact dates because so much will also depend on the printers, and they can't forecast that far out. I'm going to include the gift of a signed map with all the preorders; it goes with the story and shows where all the lovely little creatures you meet live in the forest.
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Books One and Two are now available on Kindle, I've attached links to them below, please share with your friends, and if you enjoyed the stories I would be really incredibly grateful if you would leave a review.
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Hello friends,
We are having a lovely time at the Hall. We found a little door outside that led to a cupboard under the Elizabethan Staircase, which made a charming, cozy nook for our stay. Most of the time, it's been reasonably quiet, but there were a couple of parties and a very extravagant dinner on Christmas Eve with some fine leftovers that have kept us well-fed. I've eaten enough chestnuts and candied fruit to last me a year, and I swear that Robin has doubled in size!
My heart's been in my beak with his photography exploits, he got a new roll of colour film for Christmas and it takes him forever to set up a shot.
People kept passing through the rooms he was in, and he had to stand very still until they left, some of them even had dogs with them, it's a miracle he's still with us.
At one point, he was on the dining room table, trying to get a good picture of the orange trees, when everyone came in to eat and the poor thing ended up between a roasted partridge and a plate of Brussels sprouts. It was all very worrying and macabre and I'll spare you the details for there was more than one close call...I'm so happy Jayne is cooking a nut roast for us, sanity restored!
We will be home tomorrow, so get the hot buttered rums ready.
Quentin
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Hello there friends and thank you for visiting!
We had a very nice time, and now it's almost the day when we come home, and that's good because it's getting colder and the wind is blowing from the North, so a storm is coming. I hope for snow because it's pretty, but I don't like it on my toes because it makes them feel all icy, and then they burn, which is strange, but I think it's the blood.
Quentin says I'm getting a bit portly, but I think it's just that I'm keeping my feathers all puffed up because it's cold here unless you're by the fire, and I'm a bit scared to get too near because it's big and it spits little flames out and I don't want to get singed.
I'm excited to be home tomorrow; I hope you are somewhere warm and cozy, and you can watch the snow from the warm side of the glass.
Here are some pictures I took with my new colour film, I think that's how it looks for a person. Birds have a bit of different kind of eye and we can see ultra violet which makes everything very pretty, I don't think the film can capture that but it still looks nice.
I'm going to go to bed under the stairs now and when I wake up it will be tomorrow.
Robin
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