Cosy indoors

After this mornings school run I made myself (and Carl) a nice cup of tea.  I set up my laptop and thanked my lucky stars I was nice and warm indoors and not out in the ice and snow.  After a slow start with the writing I had one of those moments.  You know when somebody passes an innocent remark and for you there's a whole short story forming in your brain.  It was brilliant and the best part was I already had the framework.  Stored away in a folder was a short story I wrote over ten years ago (which I thought was fab at the time).  So I dug it out. typed it onto my laptop and went to work on it - re-writing, editing and changing character names.  Now it resembles an up to date story rather than an old relic.  I am quite enthusiastic about the end result and hope it will be suitable for submission to a magazine.  I am determined to chase my self pity and blues away.