On this day, a year ago, I was in Bath, England with Cass. I was very cold even though the sun was shining. You see, not only am I a stereotypical Southern California girl in that I am only comfortable in weather above 68 F, but in order to pay for the trip I had first stopped over in Washington DC to do a few photoshoots (and see my sis-in-law, but she didn’t pay for my ticket, so that’s irrelevant, no matter how fun she is); and in my haze of leaving her apartment for the airport I left my coat on her couch.
People without Southern Californians in their life might not understand the significance of this, because surely, knowing I was sensitive to weather, I had brought warm clothing? You don’t understand! I don’t have warm clothing. They don’t even really sell warm clothes here – unless it’s for camping at like REI. I had struggled to find shirts with sleeves to pack and, in the end, had not bothered because, hey! I had a coat… well had being the operative word.
SO, first thing on the agenda when we got to Bath was to find me a coat. Of course they weren’t selling warm clothes either because they thought the weather was perfectly lovely. Which, ok, it looked like this, so judge me how you must:
SO, after wandering through shops of Spring clothes for a couple hours, I FINALLY found a coat in the sale section of Banana Republic – discounted to just 20 pounds. To give you an idea of how little I’m exaggerating that no one else in town was looking for coats, the first coat I tried on had a spider in it.
I’m talking a lot about this coat, which might seem weird since the other thing that happened on this day a year ago was that Cass and I started outlining the plot for our book. But you see, I was worried about freezing to death and whining during my time there. I was not worried about writing this book. In fact, I wasn’t sure why Cass thought it was going to take so long. By my calculations it would take us three weeks (tops) to write it; tack on an extra week for tweaking and proofreading and we’d be golden.
Yes, yes, laugh all you want, but I had reason to to be confident. Cass and I had alot of experience co-writing. She does everything brilliant, but she especially does everything that I hate writing brilliantly. We have a rhythm where when we’re stuck or sick of a scene we just toss it over to the other person. It’s awesome. I didn’t have a care in the world… except buying a coat. This coat to be precise:
Isn’t it awesome?
Hi ladies. Lovely to see a new blog lift off. Here’s to reading many more posts from you both.
Ada, you definitely wouldn’t be enjoying the weather here right now. It was 0°C when I was driving home yesterday evening at around 6.30pm!
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Thank you!
Eek, that’s cold. I do kinda enjoy the novelty of cold, but I would have to travel with a blanket wrapped around me at all times. And a fire.
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Hi Anji! Thank you for stopping by!
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Hurry up and get this book out-I want to read it!! Loving the blog.
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LOL! Thank you, Jane!
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I was chuckling at the story. I am in southern NY and don’t do cold well, but my son takes the cake. The only place he hasn’t needed a jacketbof some sort was when we were in Death Valley and it reached 126F. I totally understand.
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That is so funny. My daughter has a funny internal thermometer. Except her wires are crossed – she doesn’t seem to feel either the heat or the cold!
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Innteresting read
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