Back again (sort of)

[Roger Hicks]

Hi everyone!

I've been spending a lot less time on the forum lately, partly because of the 'adopted daughter' Aditi and partly because I've been trying to finish a novel I started almost 3 years ago.

Aditi is now half way through her Teaching English as a Second Language course -- Frances and I going to see her over the week-end -- and the novel is within about 3000 words of finished, though there's bound to be a certain amount of re-writing to make loose ends fit.

They say that having children changes your life, but I never thought it would affect me. But partly the novel is down to her too. She wants to be a writer, and how can I encourage her if I am too lazy to write myself?

So in future, I'll probably just be on my own sub-forum here, rather than in the main forums. But I'd like to express my sincere thanks to everyone who has been so kind about such help and encouragement as I have been able to give them, and I'll try to go on answering technical and other queries as far as possible.

Cheers,

R.