Time, I think, to set some ambitious targets. Also, I think, time to keep quiet about it so that it doesn’t come back to bite me.
One target I can reveal is my plan to submit more. I’ve been getting slack and let a few chances slide by. You can call it resting, or preparation (which I do) but after a while it becomes the norm, and that isn’t what I want.
What I want to do is get back to the old system, where I had work waiting for the submission window to open. I always feel it is easier to be accepted if you submit early. My theory is that the later you submit the better you have to be to displace the work already submitted. I suppose it depends how editors work, but it seems logical.
It also seems logical that if you submit earlier you don’t have to worry so much about people submitting work with similar themes. Better, at the moment, to be the first poem submitted on the subject of war rather than the tenth or twentieth. Not that I’m thinking of submitting one anyway, as it’s likely to be a crowded field.
The shop owner went to a popular local fish and chip shop to eat last night. He hasn’t had fish and chips for a while and was surprised by the price. They haven’t been a cheap meal for years now, really, and prices of pub meals have come down considerably.
As I pointed out, at least they are relatively unprocessed and cooked fresh, whereas cheap pub food is likely to be full of additives and come out of a frozen packet. Another case of how things have changed over the years.
I love how you are always trying to better yourself. That is to be commended. A lot of people our age are set in their ways and that’s it. As am I when I say this – I cannot imaging slopping pea soup over the top of perfectly good French fries.
Mushy peas are a fine vegetable accompaniment to fish and chips or, even better, steak and kidney pudding and chips, though I do see where your concern comes from. 🙂
LOL – Culture . . .
That’s not a word that is often applied to me or my lifestyle. 🙂
I can only offer scrapple and livermush in my reply – not sure what they taste like but the naming of American food leaves something to be desired. 🙂
Fish, chips and mushy peas are a favorite!
Pubs often have very large and varied menus which they can only do if all the stuff is pre-prepared.
Why not go the whole way and just call themselves Microwave Central or Ready-meal Hell instead of Brewer’s Fayre and Harvester?
Good point.
🙂
Our local pubs do match the chippies
One of the benefits of living in the prosperous south. 🙂