Dear friends, I need to spend time with family, friends… and possibly my writing.
So this is goodbye for the time being. I will still be keeping an eye on my blog, so if anyone happens to want to contact me, just comment and I will pick it up, but I will be neither posting, nor reading your amazing posts.
At the end of the summer I will have had visits from friends (too long neglected), attended conferences on European Banking and Far East Prisoners of War, I will have grown some tomatoes 
and beans 
and just possibly I will have made some progress on my next novel. 
We are starting here:
If I end up with nothing more than this, so be it. 
I will see you all again in the autumn.
Green Writing Room 
A sagacious move, old blogger friend. You have priorities and have set your life up accordingly. All the best.
Thank you. I was torn, but not everything can be fitted into one life simultaneously. Hope to see you again soon.
Someday I will emulate your self-discipline. Enjoy your solitude, your conferences, your garden. All the best, Hilary.
It’s taken me a while to make this move, I’ll let you know how it works!
Good for you. Enjoy your summer and grow lots of lovely things and write lots of lovely words – and please don’t let it rain until September!
Thanks for commenting on my Goldfish blog before you disappear.
I’ll do my best. We’ve had very little rain for two months, so some would be good, – but no, I won’t let it rain until September! I shall not to read some posts, such as the Goldfish. I may leave a small read-only window a week.
Would you mind a little more rain NOW? 😉 … because I’m coming to England in September. (My first trip except for London. Plan to start in the Lake District {Edinburgh actually} and make my way south.)
Have a splendid, fruitful break.
Thanks, I plan to, can’t go wrong staring in Venice!
That’s for sure! It’ll be a tad crowded.
The pictorial symbolism of your note is touching. I notice those beans are green.
Thank you. We’re Green through and through!
Thanks for the pictures… beautiful! Safe travels! And I’m sure the hedgehogs will be fine.
I have just put little hedgehog feast around the garden, to last them for the days we are away… I just took a torch and looked, and there was a small fellow tucking in.
I’ll miss you but I don’t blame you. I am thinking about stepping back myself. Sitting in front of the computer when there is so much that needs to be done feels wrong at times -and lately more often.
I wish you a wonderful summer. I wish you happy writing and most of all I wish to see you again in September.
I love wandering though people’s posts, but it is definitely eating time that is needed elsewhere, I shall see how it goes. Hope you have a great summer too.
See you in Autumn. Enjoy your pursuits wherever they are. We’ll miss you in the meantime.
Thanks, I shall have withdrawal symptoms. However, September will be here in a blink.
Have a wonderful summer and hope you make lots of progress with the writing 🙂
Thanks. I have failed, this year, to create a single sacred day of the week for writing. There have been reasons for this, but if I stop blogging this must surely free up some time…
I’ll miss your posts but have a wonderful time. xx
You too, I shall keep an aye on your performances and hope to turn up at the next one we can get to.
Just when I managed to get your posts coming through automatically on email too! Good on you for taking a hiatus and best of luck with all the endeavours, and most of all, the next novel. Smart move to disconnect for a while. enjoy!
You have a great summer, Hilary. You know we’ll be here when you get back!! [of course I will be especially interested in the Far East Prisoners of War info.]
Have a wonderful summer too. I am looking forward to the FEPOW conference. They are every other year and they are informative and moving events.
Looking forward to hearing about it!!
I will miss you.
I’ll miss you too. I may take sneak read-only views of this and that…
Don’t be a stranger! We’ll miss you
I’m going to miss all of you too, I’m coming back, promise…
Hope to “see you in September”! Have a fabulous summer.
Thank you. Hope the sun shines on you too.
I like your style Hilary! Enjoy and see you again the other side of summer.
Enjoy these months and make the best of them – may all the inspiration be with you and lots of sunny days!
Lovely photographs, Hilary! Fare thee well with your many pursuits and enjoy life to the full! Always good to see your posts when and if they happen. ❤
Beautiful photos, wonderful post, have a terrific summer, and we await your return!
Have a good break, and I hope it inspires your writing. My dad’s started reading ‘Unseen unsung’ and his first comment was ‘it’s extremely well-written’. I think he’s enjoying it.
Thank you for this oh-so-delightful encouragement. I hope he continues to enjoy it. As I wrestle with words, I am amazed that I ever managed to complete a book.
Have a glorious summer, Hilary. 🙂
Enjoy your time away, Hilary, and may you make large strides into your novel.
Good luck, Hilary. Well done on your tomatoes are your beans. My beans (in cold, dry but sunny Essex) are doing fine, but I have no tomatoes yet, just a few little green beads on one of my plants.
Starting at La Fenice is a very good place to start. Au revoir and let us know when the next novel is born.
We never got to La Fenice as we were totally sidetracked by the Venice Biennale and, to our immense surprise, the Damien Hirst.
I’m not sure I would understand Damien Hirst. Perhaps I should be more adventurous.
Hilary, I found Cynthia Jobin’s blog today. It isn’t gone. https://littleoldladydotnet.wordpress.com/ She tricked us! ~Ginene Nagel
I hope you achieved all you wanted (or perhaps something completely different but equally exciting). 🙂
Um… more like something completely different. The novel has progressed, but at this rate it will take ten years to write. I am having fun with some radical work in the garden instead.