Sorry, I seem to have lost focus this week.
I have written several thousand words, but none of them were suitable for a blog. It’s interesting to me to indulge in biographical musings and a polemic about the waste of time and trees involved in the typical grant application, but it’s not so interesting for the people who have to read it. (I’m just having to print out a load stuff for a grant application that could easily just be submitted as links to various internet pages).
Similarly, the new outbreak of hostilities between me and the Farmer’s Sister, whilst giving me a great arena in which to indulge my sarcasm and vitriol, is not a fit subject for publication. Quite apart from the possibilities of a suit for defamation, it’s rude to talk about people behind their backs.
So, in the absence of masterly prose, I will bung in a load of photos.
It’s also bad policy from another point of view; if I ever describe how to make a bomb from agricultural chemicals it won’t seem so funny as it comes up in court and moves from being “a blog” to becoming “the evidence”.
Even my email box fails to inspire me, with the same old ungrammatical notes purporting to be from banks and credit card companies, and one very persistent accountant, all wanting details and money. Come to think of it the accountant could be for real – as he keeps lecturing us and adding more penalties each time he writes. Ah well, he should write a more convincing letter.
Once in a while I did get an imaginative letter from the widow of an African politician, but they seem to have dried up lately.
Instead of agonising over my lack of output, I’m going to promise to do better next week.
I usually manage to get out of trouble by doing that.
Let’s see if it works this time.
(The title, in case you haven’t guessed, is a quote that appeared in many of my school reports over the years. They probably have to be more upbeat these days but in the 1970s teachers were still allowed to be cynical.)
I’m really sorry you’ve had a bad week – I regularly have bad weeks and I don’t bother posting much as the post would be rubbish. The photos are very nice – you could post a few lone photos if you run out of (printable) things to say.
I must stock up on pictures of chicks and kittens to see me through the bad times… 😉
Great pics. I empathise, as you know, with the grant application
Thanks. I’m sure the pointless, grinding tedium is meant to weed me out! 😉
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Love the swan picture!!
It was an easy one to take – the swan did all the work!
Beautiful pictures. As far as posting, you DON’T have to post all the time, just fairly regularly. I can imagine some of your visitors are more interesting to write about than others and you could focus on those; some people could also probably learn about the grant process if you broke it down for teaching (and then you could make funny asides). Ah, well, we all have bad weeks. I hope yours is better next.
We’re making plum jam next week and have kids coming to make bug hotels on Saturday so it’s definitely going to be better. 😉
Bug hotels…What about toad houses?
We are hoping to build a big one, with toad or hedgehog room underneath, and build smaller ones in bottles for them to take home.
I don’t think you have to post all the time. Good that you’ve had a break from the widows of African politicians, anyway.
Maybe firewalls, or whatever it takes, are getting better at preventing this kind of email getting into inboxes. I haven’t had as many uninvited cyber missives recently either.