A full day to work at home on existing books in progress. I'm lucky in that Jane is here to provide the complementary and often main work on the books we are progressing, especially when I am out being the face of the business to existing and future authors. I'm currently working through a nature lovers manuscript. It is more of a planned winnowing process, to bring out the author's clear personal focus. In-between, there were occasional forays to peer into the pond. Draco the dragonfly larva was following a distinct pattern, if you sat and watched for more than five minutes. It would rise to the surface and use its hind gills to hang from the pond meniscus, wait and catch a mosquito larva. then it would descend into invisibility. If you patiently waited, it would rise again and repeat the cycle. I had some small fry in the pond, one of them looks as if it is definitely growing larger.
Brexit is grumbling underneath the main election campaign, with the release of the very transparent an public negotiating position of the EU 27. Two key points - first, rights for EU nationals in the UK and UK nationals in the EU to be guranteed right up to the moment of Brexit and beyond (read it here https://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/beta-political/files/citizens-rights-essential-principles-draft-position-paper_en.pdf. Second, a list of 84 international bodies and organisations to which the UK had committed itself as part of the EU. No figures mentioned (paper here https://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/beta-political/files/financial-settlement-essential-principles-draft-position-paper_en.pdf). Surprisingly, this has not hit the headlines in the middle of an election being fought on Brexit!
The current UK governments tactic is not to reveal too much and maintain the Monty Python option of 'Run away! Run away!' Which begs another question, who is the killer rabbit in the Tory cabinet if they do turn?
After Angela Merkel's comments about the EU having to look after itself as it cannot rely on friends (US and UK), both Sean Spicer, US Speaker, and Chancellor Merkel gave more conciliatory words, which were underlined by another Tweet from President Trump saying "We have a MASSIVE trade deficit with Germany, plus they pay FAR LESS than they should on NATO & military. Very bad for U.S. This will change". Mollifying words indeed.
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