Margaret Mayo Romance Author

Forgive the title of this post. Fish aren’t animals. But this happened on Saturday and it was very funny.

We decided to go out for the day into Wales. For those of you who are not aware of it Wales is very much sheep country. In the distance we could see a snake of traffic coming towards us, hundreds of cars it seemed. It was a long winding, hilly road and it was not until we got closer that we discovered the reason for so much traffic going slowly.

A lamb!

Strolling along slowly, looking a little bewildered, but nowhere for him to go. The hedgerows on either side stoppd him fleeing into the fields. Poor thing, he was completely out of his comfort zone. I bet all the drivers in the queue wondered what was going on.

This photo is not of the same lamb, it was one I took a few years ago, but he’s very cute, isn’t he?

Shock and horror this morning. My DH opened the curtains and looked through the window, gave a cry of distress, and was out of the house like a shot. Half naked! We have a pool in the garden – OK, maybe a pond – but it has at least a dozen fish in it. And for some reason the water had leaked out. He yelled out to me, ‘The water’s all gone and the fish are lying dead on the bottom.’

A slight exaggeration – but there was only a couple of inches of water left and the fish were gasping. Fortunately we only lost one and the rest are happily OK. Some are goldfish but some are koi and cost a lot of money.

DH thinks the leak is somewhere in the stream that feeds the pond. Actually the same water gets pumped round and round, so it might be in one of the hidden pipes. He’s not yet had time to explore. But yes, it was a shock. We’d actually had a lie in, would you believe, so it brought us fully awake very quickly.

As I only had three entrants in my contest:

Denise Yen

Joy Isley

Mary Ann Derbin

I am going to send a copy of Married Again to the Milionaire to each of you and I thank you for entering.

Joy and Mary Ann I have your addresses. Denise, can you please send me yours. And I’ll send off the books asap.

I’ve started my new book but it’s fairly slow going. My heroine is the beautiful Kara, who hides her light under a bushel, and my hero is Blake. She has been working as his PA for over two years without him noticing her. But things are about to change…