It’s the early hours of the morning and, as usual, I am still up finding odd jobs to do. Yesterday was quite action packed so I’m going to write about it now and may even squeeze another post in today – or lengthen this one in the evening. There are so many options!
I’ve had a couple of emails in the last few days, but nowhere to fit the news in. I made four submissions at the end of January, two of them have now come back with acceptances. Two acceptances is good. It means I am back in the groove and it also means means I have 18 poems back, and can use them again. I will edit and polish and see what happens.
This is why it’s easier to make submissions when you are doing it constantly – there is a constant turnover as submittable material comes back. Some months last year my submissions were entirely poems which had already been out. This is so much easier than having to start from scratch. Admittedly, not all returned poems are fit to send out again, but most of them are, and many of them are used on their second or third attempt. I’ve read interviews by well known poets who have done well with work that has been submitted over 20 times.
Sometimes the talent you need isn’t writing ability but persistence.
Same goes for vegetable stew making. Last week it was appalling, mainly due to the use of putrid parsnips, this week it was excellent, and I had the added pleasure of using the cauliflower leaves from last night as greens to add more goodness to the stew and prevent waste. Why compost it when you can eat it?
I also had a blood test – as I said, it’s all happening! Nobody has rung so I assume I passed. Nobody has rung to complain that I am a week late either, I think we have finally reached an understanding. Next time I also have a liver function blood test to make sure the arthritis drugs aren’t doing me any damage. I hope they aren’t, as I’m reasonably happy with them at the moment.
The picture is snowdrops from 2019. They are out now but I have no new photos. That has been a feature of the days of covid – very few new photos.
Such good news all around!
🙂 Yes, it’s going well at the moment.
It’s a shame when the shop cuts off the cauliflower leaves – the nicest cabbage leaf 😊
Indeed! 🙂
I hope that your liver test comes out well because the arthritis drugs are a definite good thing.
I now wish I had been more considerate to my liver in my younger days . . .
Congratulations on the acceptances, and as you noted, persistence plays a large role in just about any endeavor in life.
Good luck with the liver function tests!
Thank you. The blood tests from yesterday were OK so I will hope for good luck next time I’m tested too.
We are with you on cauliflower leaves
I have been trying to improve my wastage rate, and they do seem to good to throw away like we use to.