I hope everyone had a good Christmas. I was working, but managed to get to a family party at 2300 on Christmas night. They had a big plate of turkey waiting for me.

I spent the week before Christmas driving up and down to Wales, a round trip from my home in London of about 350 miles. Last Friday, the whole of the southern part of Britain was shrouded in fog, and when I got back to London it was like driving through one of the old fashioned pea-soupers, which we thought we'd seen the back of after the series of Clean Air Acts which began in Britain in 1956. The fog even smelled foul, and it was a horrible green colour. Most unpleasant to drive in.

Well, I've done it! Just had my word count for NaNoWriMo verified. It came in at 62,567 words.

Now all I have to do is completely rewrite it! I found it exhausting, but quite exhilirating to write like this. But my usual writing style is to write a little, re-read, go back and polish, and so move on in small increments, and I found it very strange and rather frustrating not to be able to do this.

Nevertheless, it's been great fun. Now if I can just work out how to display my winner's certificate, I'll be happy!