thumbs very firmly neither up or down Thursday...

Sometimes you can get giddy listening to people...yes...no...It's like being at a tennis match.

I'm saying this  because for several of my friends it's been a strange old week.

One got an enormous electricity bill, four times what it usually is at this time of the year, and she's only had half her radiators on... Weird. Now although that's very worrying and scary, the people at the electricity company, are  being very helpful.  They are trying their best to understand. The cost of each unit hasn't risen, the number of appliances is lower, but the units used are four times that of the last quarter? Something stinks doesn't it. Like I say, they ate all working together to sort the problem. So that's thumbs up and down... it doesn't stop a pensioner worrying though...

There was a knock on my door today. The remote monitor of our oil tank wasn't reading properly, so they'd come out to check...That is a thumbs up...

And on the writing front...

Yeah it's that old chestnut, Erotic writing... Why do we do it? Yup, I was asked not long ago if I had to write what I do. Couldn't I write something different? Now, I didn't say why should I, I just said no I couldn't this is what and how I write. In hindsight I should have added a quote from the minister of a church where I live. Obviously he'd been told I wrote erotic stories... After all half the village know I write Dirty Books, (their words not mine), and are split on whether that's good or bad... Anyway the minister just told me."You've got a gift from God, so use it."

How different from the church a friend goes to where her husband...her husband note, not her, was called before the elders due to her writing... I can't even begin to start where that is all so wrong. She is a person, she does have a voice ( oh does she lol) and she can speak for herself. The upshot is hubby will no longer teach at Sunday School, and they will find a less judgmental church. The thing that hit me, was they were told if she wrote under a pseudonym, It would be fine, because no one would know...

arghhhh

Hypocritical or what?

So much happens in life, and lets face it we're not on the earth long enough for the negativity that gores on. We're all different and why can't some people accept that? My kink is not your kink, my beliefs aren't yours and so on. As I told one person who was talking about my books bring filthy...No I didn't drop them in the mud...how do you know if you haven't read them...don't forget your opinion doesn't need to be the same as anyone else's...we're all different with different strengths and weaknesses, and thank goodness for that.

 I'm doing my best to put my faith in the let's all work together and make things happen brigade. Not easy I admit, but...

Anyway,

Happy reading be it hot or not...

R x