My Nan always says ‘A little bit of what you fancy does you good’. Mind you, she also says that you should put salt on slugs and sit back and watch them fizzle, but let’s not get into that. Her mantra extolling the benefits of self-indulgence from time to time is one upon which I have been musing ever more frequently. I know I do tend to bang on about the importance of working hard and making an effort but, well, a girl is only human, after all.
I can tell you right now what I don’t fancy. I don’t fancy sitting for endless hours at my laptop, surrounded by notes and paperwork and emails, wrestling with prose that becomes drier by the minute and politely arguing for weeks on end about what three words will grace the cover of my collected works, while outside the sun shines and Pimms is poured within punts that glide down the River Cam. No. I don’t much fancy that at all.
So bugger it, I’m not going to do it.
Because life is too short.
And a little bit of what you fancy does you good.
Please note – if you are my publisher or an esteemed colleague from Middlesex University – Haha only joking! I’m working really hard on everything, honest.
BOOKS BY LUCY BRAZIER
Lucy Brazier 
So you’re taking a much-needed break?? GOOD for you — we all need to take time to rest and recuperate (or play and enjoy ourselves!) now and then. Enjoy, Lucy, and I promise not to tattle on you while you’re away!
Heehee thank you, Debbie! I am sure Mumsie and my Nan will be keeping an eye on me so there won’t be too much mischief. At least – not until their backs are turned!!
Hahahahahaha, love the note under the pic, you did kinda throw yourself under the bus, put the thumbs down in the arena…that sort of thing.
But your Nan! Gosh, she sounds so interesting. I, too, would like to see a large slug sizzle.
Heehee I’m sure my note has thrown them off the scent!
Ah, my nan is the best. When she isn’t playing rude word scrabble she is murdering garden creatures. She’s a bit like Terry, really.