I've made a start on Chapter 25, which will have someone telling yet another Mac Criomthann story before Gwernin et al head on south to Emain Macha. This one answers a question left hanging from the previous chapter. I've written part of it, and need to get on with the rest. Six more chapters after this one will finish this book. The next one will be another spin-off: "
Taliesin: King Arthur's Bard", and will flesh out some of the things he has told us from time to time about his early life before Gwernin met him in the first
Storyteller book.
Spring has definitely arrived. The tulips are finished, the oak tree has opened its first tiny leaves, and the ash trees which took so much damage in the last hard frosts are timidly starting to leaf out again. It's also lawn mowing time. I did bits of the front yard yesterday, and need to do the back next. Not today, because we got some rain last night, but tomorrow or Saturday before the big storm which is forecast for next week. I just hope that will be all rain and no snow here - it will probably be a spring blizzard in the mountains!
