Tuesday 24 January 2012

Postcard from St Kitts

Sorry to have to report to anybody reading this in a northern January, but I am sitting among palm trees and watching pelicans fly up and down the beach. At least I have a stiff neck, a twisted ankle and a gippy tummy to mitigate all this delight - although goodness knows, the same would probably be true were I at home in Blighty.
From time to time I think about my new project Gloomsbury and am excited about the v.v.distinguished actors who have expressed interest. (No, not telling who! Secret - for the time being.)
Most of the time I stare into the casuarina tree and listen to the crashing surf.
Before coming to St Kitts we visited Montserrat - we flew there from Antigua in a v.v.tiny plane - I had seen bigger ones in Hamley's. Montserrat's volcano was still smouldering away, but one hopes it will quieten down now. The habitable northern bit of Montserrat is one of the most delightful, beautiful, dark, shady, adorable places I have ever visited. The local feral mammal is the Agouti, blessed with a large bum and thin extremities - so of course I identified with it. Here in St Kitts we have monkeys, which sounds delightful but, like Homo Sapiens, they are a source of destruction and damage, ripping ripe mangos off the trees, taking one bite and then chucking the rest on the floor.
I have no idea what is going on in England, which I suppose is the point of holidays, but I do hope it is still there.

The latest Jess Jordan adventure

The latest Jess Jordan adventure Chocolate SOS was published in the UK on 5th January. I have also been commissioned by Radio 4 to write a six-part comedy series called Gloomsbury based on the lives and loves of the Bloomsbury Group.