Waiting for Gordo - a Staycation

I am spending a lot of this week wrestling with the changes my publisher wants in my third (and probably my last) novel.  It's the one I would like to call "A Present from Betelgeuse", but can't, because if I do it will go on the Sci-Fi shelf - and it is not Science Fiction, or Fantasy.  Although it is of course fiction. 

So hopefully this would be a good time to mention my previous books:

If you can't go to a tropical island destination this year, maybe you would like to read about one?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Waiting-Gordo-Mrs-Sue-Knight/dp/1912053667

A review:
"When I first opened the pages of Waiting for Gordo, I was expecting a light-hearted vacation story, good for a few chuckles. While it certainly was that, the novel, like the mysterious island paradise that serves as its setting, turned out to be much more...

...Knight guides the reader along with reserved wit and irony. This is the most fun book I’ve read in a long time. If you’re looking to for an enjoyable read, you can’t go wrong by Waiting for Gordo."

In Goodreads, Curtis M. Urness
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2723920998?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1&fbclid=IwAR1RJk1G_LG0uiuCWAAiLnVir7mnjiwRk4NQ8WQBilSPqumFzhS0GR37L6Y


While I am a million miles from a best-seller, I have got some lovely reviews. And I appreciate every one. To know that someone has enjoyed reading your book, and wants to keep turning the pages... wonderful.

And if you can no longer shop till you drop, maybe you would like to read the story of the last shopper left alive?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Till-They-Dropped-Mrs-Knight/dp/1909163813

And here is a lovely Amazon review, from a real author, Stuart Aken:

"Fantasy? Science Fiction? Magical Realism? This book is all of these. But it’s a thoughtful, imaginative, and ultimately terrifying cross genre piece that stirs both emotions and ideas.
We’re plunged into an undefined land, except that it must be the so-called civilised world, in an undeclared time, which must be the future. What is clear quite quickly is the sense of threat, unreality, turmoil and confusion. This is a nightmare place with few answers to the many questions posed.
We follow the progress, if progress it can rightly be called, of the young woman trapped in this consumerist empire ruled by autonomous machines and AI. The suggestion is that society’s overbearing urge to consume, buy, and own, has been usurped by the serving machines and AI, which have initially enabled this pointless activity, then encouraged it. Without the moral restraints of humanity, the machines, guided by AI, decide that consumers may be fair game for consumption.
This world is depicted with great imagination and superb imagery. The relentless attempt to escape the banal but murderous entity that shopping has become is described with brief flashbacks that explain how this all came about.
A nightmare, brought to life, and populated by the innocents left in this world by previous generations of unthinking, greedy, selfish consumers. Beware!"

Or if you want a few quiet moments with some poetry and some verse:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Old-Playgrounds-anthology-edited-Knight/dp/1470139774

I have also been keeping up with my studying, and such witnessing as I can do. 
And we had an extra little meeting tonight to teach us how - when we have the Zoom meetings - to put up our virtual hands if we want to comment.  I seem to have mastered it, but we will see tomorrow night.

Before I finish, and as the door to door witnessing work is still suspended.  I wanted to ask you to think next about these two verses.

2 Peter 2:9 which says:  "So, then, Jehovah knows how to rescue people of godly devotion out of trial, but to reserve unrighteous people to be destroyed on the day of judgment."

and 

2 Peter 3:13 "But there are new heavens and a new earth that we are awaiting according to his promise, and in these righteousness is to dwell."

A rescue is on the way  Jehovah will not allow his beautiful earth to be ruined by the greed and violence of some.   He created us to be happy and to find nothing but joy in our life on this lovely planet earth.