I’m not sure what the header photo is going to be, but the top photo in the blog is a cake fork. It’s old-fashioned, superfluous to modem life and can often be found going cheap at Antiques Fairs. Julia has a collection of such things. I think we can safely leave it there without adding more comments.
A Cake Fork
I tried to polish it, but the photo still came out like it was smeared. The marks on the back say “Stainless Steel Korea” which, to me indicates quite a late date – somewhere between now and the 60s. They also suggest low production standards.
They belong in the same category as bread forks, fish knives and sugar nips. Cake slices and long-handled pickled onion forks (with and without spring plungers) hover slightly above them, but I suspect their days are numbered too.
Today has been relaxing. I have now relaxed for two days. Thoughts have passed through my head. Some have been noted and some forgotten. One of the thoughts is that I am going to write a villanelle. It wasn’t my smartest thought, as they are tricky to write. I finish around one in six that I start. I know that because I have started six and completed one. It is here in case you didn’t see it first time round.
A villanelle is a bit like painting by numbers. Instead of inspiration I have a rhyme scheme, which I wrote down. Once you have that done you can write the A1 and A2 lines, which are the repeats. That takes care of 8 of the 19 lines. Now I just need 5 “a” lines (rhyme with A lines, but don’t repeat) and 6 “b” lines – rhyming with each other and no repeats. It’ simpler than a Sonnet and a lot less frustrating than a haiku.
I’m going to bed now. I hope that when I wake up I’m still happy with the repeating lines. If I’m not it will be a fatal fault with the planned poem.