Booming business

Down the road from here the French army has a good size shooting range, just east of Bourges. With a length of more than 35 kilometers it is perfect for practising with the larger models guns, canons, howitzers or whatever it is they use these days.
About once a month our windows rattle and the ground shakes. A deep booming thunder rolls through the valley as they let fly twenty or so shots that seem almost lazy in the way the sounds rumbles away. There is a strange reassurance in the violence of the explosion and the languid travel of the boom, as if it is enjoying the countryside as it goes

Switch in the making

Five months in Germigny drawing to a close, from the first weeks of summer almost to the beginning of winter. Months of writing, practically without interruption: so many words, so many pages, so many hours, so many days - this blog suffered the consequences.
So be it.
Sunday is switch day, back to the Netherlands. Two new books in first draft. The next months will be devoted to revisions and corrections, and that is just fine. I like doing revisions and I don't mind corrections. Truth is, I like most everything about writing. Can't be helped. Others like fishing, I don't.