My Favourite Month? (Cecilia Peartree)
April has usually been my favourite month, partly because of the rapidly lengthening hours of daylight and partly because my birthday falls in approximately the middle of it, around the time of the anniversaries of the Lincoln assassination, the sinking of the Titanic and the Battle of Culloden! So far April 2023 has been the worst April of my life, with a broken hip landing me in hospital for the first half of the month, but I must admit April 2025 wasn't one of the great Aprils either. This was partly because we had three committee meetings instead of just one, and one of them was actually held on my birthday, partly because the pollen count was particularly high and partly because I found myself - not entirely accidentally - working on two novels at the same time. I had started the month determined to finish the Regency novel set in Cornwall which I had started around Christmas, because I was beginning to hate it, which is usually a sign I have spent too long on something. Fort...