Hello from the comfort of my armchair! Yes, that’s right: my loyal readers will know that I’m very prone to colds when winter arrives, and as soon as the weather changed here in the South of England, a sore throat started, and I’m now in the full throes of a headcold.

Which is really inconvenient! Earlier in the week I was making real headway with the feedback from my editor on Catastrophe with a Count, one of my Ravishing Regencies series and I was really hoping to have it off to the formatter and almost ready to send to my Kickstarter supporters, but that’s had to take a back seat.

I’ve also been pushing through my own edits for the last book in that series, Emigrating with an Earl, and was confident that I would be able to type ‘The End’ this weekend – but every time that I open up the document, my brain starts to feel like lead!

So I’ve been forced to take the advice of my family, friends, and wonderful readers, and step away from the keyboard this weekend (except to write this blog, to tell you that I’m not doing any work this weekend. Yes, I get the irony). It’s frustrating when you love doing what you do, and I love writing more than anything, but if I’m totally honest with myself, anything that I did write this weekend would probably be awful, and I’d just end up writing it again!

Learning to take time for yourself is vital. I’m not going to get any better by wishing it, but slowing down and taking time for myself? Well, that certainly won’t hurt.

So I’m going to allow my husband to look after me, bring me food, and snuggle down with some Jane Austen classics. What have you been up to this weekend? Tell me in the comments below!