This Peely Wally post was originally published in January 2020.
Peely Wally Levels
Level 17 is actually an improvement. I think I was level 25 last week. But then I’m not the best when it comes to self assessment. In my last post I stated that I was ‘recovering from flu.’ Three days later I was admitted to hospital with pneumonia and a collapsed lung. And there I stayed for three weeks, receiving the most incredible care.
Wow, NHS.
Wow, nurses.
The picture is an old one, but it is my first post-pneumonia ambition. I will walk onto a beach sometime soon.
So, normal service will be resumed as the Peely Wally levels reduce. I hope you all had a good holiday time, if you celebrate, and that 2020 is a wonderful year!
Ariel: Dancing on TV
Torn from a life where she never fitted in, Ariel quickly becomes the focus of a reality TV show. Can she rise above a lifetime of pain and embrace the possibilities of fame and love that beckon to her?
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The Performance: sometimes going home for Christmas is just one huge performance…
When Ariel returns home from dance college, her mother expects her to perform the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy in a pink, sequined tutu in front of many, many party guests. Ariel adjusts the costume and choreography to expose dark truths about her life, but, as it turns out, this is not the biggest performance of the night…
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I hope I could find a copy of your book.
It’s on all Amazons, though other book shops can get it too 🙂
Poor you! Especially over the festive period when it seems that just about everyone else is having fun. Wishing you a speedy recovery.
Thank you 🙂
Recover well. Beaches are just the best medicine!
Thank you 🙂
Oh my goodness, sorry to hear that! Hope you get fully well soon.
Thank you 🙂
Wishing you a happy and healthy New Year!
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Wishing you a speedy recovery
Thank you!
How awful. Hope you feel better soon!
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Good old NHS! Glad to hear you’re on the mend. That beach does look magnificent, what a great recuperation spur. Happy New Year.
Thank you, and to you 🙂
Gosh well done to recover from that. Good luck for 2020.
Thank you 🙂
‘Peely Wally’ was a new one for me (I’m from south of the border!) but Professor Google soon sorted me out. Sounds like you’ve had a wretched time, but the good old NHS has come up trumps again. Slow but steady and you’ll soon be on that beach. Take care
Thank you 🙂
I always thought peelywally was one word, but it always reminds me of my Mum when I see or hear it. She was a proud Scot too. Something in the air? Two great, female, Scottish authors catching a bad lurgy at the end of the year: you and Kerry Hudson! Hope you fully recover soon, take care, lots of love and Happy New Year!
Thank you 🙂
Wishing you a happy New Year, and continued recovery
Thank you 🙂
Hoping you’re back to normal soon.
Thank you 🙂
So sorry to learn of your illness. Hope you’re fully recovered soon.
It’s no fun being sick.:-( Especially THAT sick! I’m glad to hear you’re on the mend. Have a blessed 2020.
Thank you so much 🙂
Sending you well wishes and a happy new year!
Thank you 🙂
Get well soon!! :'( Sorry to hear you had such a terrible illness. You can do it! You will be fine.
Thank you 🙂
YIKES, that’s terrible! My mom had pneumonia the week before Christmas and my husband and I have been battling some awful sickness since around the same time. Here I sit, with 2 ear infections and a sinus infection and it seems like antibiotics are not working for the first time in my life. I have no idea what this illness is that’s going around (apparently overseas too) but it’s awful!
Glad you’re doing better.
Oh no, I hope you get sorted out soon. The first antibiotics I was given didn’t do the job either.
I’m sorry to hear you’ve been so ill!! Best wishes for a speedy and full recovery.
Thank you Liz 🙂
Hi Ailish, Many more wishes for your good recovery. I did read The Mermaid and the Bear and enjoyed it tremendously. Your writing is very skillful and I liked the world you created with combining research and real social issues with some fantasy.
Thank you, I’m so glad you liked the book 🙂
I’m so sorry to hear you’ve been so very ill! I hope 2020 brings you better health and more wonderful writing. I just download THE MERMAID AND THE BEAR. I need a good escape from the winter doldrums.
I hope you enjoy it!
I’m so sorry to hear what you’ve gone through. I hope the worst is past now.
Thank you, me too 🙂
Hope you feel better soon.
Thank you 🙂
Wow Ailishsinclair Get better soon I hope.
Thank you 🙂
Oh no! Get better soon.
Thank you 🙂
I hope you’re feeling better soon!!!
Thank you, I am starting to 🙂
Get well soon! and a Happy New Year!
Thank you, and to you!
Good to have you back. Happy new year!
Thank you, and happy 2020 to you too!
I’m glad you’re doing better now. Yeah, the flu is no joke.
Will you be blogging about your first post-flu walk on the beach? That’s such a lovely goal.
I might! Not quite there yet…
Hope you are up to that beach walk soon! Happy new year!
Thank you 🙂
Wrapping you in healing <3, Ailish. Wishing you many blessings for 2020. The Mermaid and the Bear is on my reading list.
Thank you 🙂 I hope you enjoy the book!
I’ll write you a review, Ailish. <3
Thank you again! Reviews are so helpful 🙂
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What a beautiful photograph! Lots of nasty respiratory illnesses on our side of the pond, too. Get well soon!
Thank you 🙂
Hope you’re on the mend and feeling better, Ailish.
I am mending now, thank you 🙂
Beautiful pictures, and thanks for the intriguing novel excerpt! Sounds like your illness really gave you a tough time. I hope you feel better soon!
Thank you, getting there slowly.
How dreadful for you! I have nothing but praise for the NHS staff and the ambulance crews. I am pleased to see that you are now on the mend. Take care, Ailish and I hope that now you will have a very happy new year!
Thank you Clare 🙂
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Oh my goodness – you have been so ill. I hope you are well on the road to recovery. I also look Peely Wally… love that expression.
Yes, getting better all the time I hope you’re well too!
Good to hear that – I have been blue but getting better. K x
Best of luck with your debut novel.
Thank you 🙂
Wishing you well with both your upcoming self-published book and your health. Thank you for teaching me a new term–peely wally!
It’s a great term, isn’t it? 🙂