I’m starting a new policy from today. I may not do it for all posts, but I’m imposing a thirty minute limit on writing a post for most of them, and this may include adding tags and photos. On the best of days tags and photos seem to take ten minutes so it may involve just writing for 20 minutes.
Photos for today are Julia posing in the front garden with a word. The word is “WE”. I’m not sure what the message will eventually spell, but this is Julia’s part of it. I would have liked to have drawn the word “EVIL” and stood next to her. My design would have to include a small stripy insect so that it could serve as a warning to gardeners about the evils of weevils. I know I keep saying this, but if I ever get round to writing that series of crime fiction I keep muttering about, I think I’ve found the title for the book that features gardeners.
As we did the photographs we also watched the neighbours from the corners of our eyes – they were holding some sort of three way conversation – two in the gardens and one on the footpath. They weren’t quite, to my eye, six feet apart, but young people are so careless.
For their part, they looked out of the corners of their eyes at the two elderly eccentrics taking pictures of a piece of paper in the front garden.
If WP continue down the slippery slope of the New Editor it may be that I only write twenty words per post, the rest of the time being devoted to struggling with technology and swearing at the computer.
Nothing much has happened apart from that. On the other hand, it’s only just coming up to 4pm. There is time yet.
I spoke to my sister by telephone this morning because we are are not technological enough to Skype or Zoom or any of that stuff. Ideally I would write, using a fountain pen and sitting at a desk in my study, but I’m too lazy to do it regularly and end up having to wash the pen before use. By the time I’ve done that I normally either forget about it or send an email instead.
Part of a lockdown message project
The letters in Julia’s photos may ring a few bells. The “W” is designed to look like a water melon and the “E” is an elephant.
The alarm just went. Four hundred words in twenty minutes. They didn’t take much thought or research so it wasn’t too hard. Time to add tags and photos.
P.S. – the shop owner rang today. We will be having a meeting on Friday to discuss the resumption of eBay work in the shop. We may hold the meeting in the open air to avoid breaking too many guidelines. However, we won’t be open to the public for a while yet.
Photos and tags didn’t take too long, so it’s all done and dusted in 30 minutes. I wonder if that will ever happen again…
P.P.S. – my contributor’s copy of Medal News arrived today with a cheque. I’m beginning to like this writing business.
Good luck with reducing the amount of time you spend on writing blog posts.
It seems to be working. Now I need to find time to read posts.
Yes, amazing how one can fill one’s days 😊
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Congratulations on the cheque from Medal News!
It’s always a nice feeling. 🙂
Woo-hoo! Get paid for an article is a wonderful thing. Good luck with safely going back to work.
Thank you. I fear I have become rather lazy whilst taking my recent unexpected holiday.
A discouraging time, both politically and because of the pandemic. I have to push myself to get anything done. Heavyhearted.
Yes, a sadly dispiriting time. But we will rise again, and we will show that we are better than politicians.
Has the thought just ocurred to you, like it has occurred to me, that being better than a politician isn’t setting the bar too high?
Take care.
Sure has. Sigh. I started out the year on a hopeful note, but it sure crashed fast.
🙂 At least you have Clif and hummingbirds…
And that counts for a lot.
🙂 It certainly does.
A cheque for an article? Excellent. This new policy lark is surely a method of filling a post with the details.
It’s just a way of justifying writing random crap and calling it a Post. 🙂
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A cheque? Brilliant. If you stick to your new rules, I for one will miss your occasional rambles into the nooks and crannies of your mind.
You can still have the nooks and crannies, but I will be working to a time limit. In fact, there may be more nooks and crannies because it is easier than proper preparation. 🙂
Thank goodness for that.
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I love the idea of a time limit. Sometimes it feels like I agonize for hours and get little else done. Great idea!
While I’ve been in isolation I’ve developed a bad habit of taking all day to produce a post, with far too many diversions and distractions. I’ve decided I must use my time more profitably, though I really should have done this eight weeks ago.:-)