“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
Winnie the Pooh
Today’s return to work was generally successful. I had enough energy to get through the day (though sitting down does not really require much energy), and my brains were sharp enough to cope with the modest demands placed on them. In other words, I looked round and realised just how bored I have become with the whole thing. I need more challenge and I think it is time to start writing the eBay posts with the use of alliteration and other verbal fireworks. If I start with that, I can always move on to blank verse later.
Painted Lady
My second post of yesterday, referred to six acceptances. I returned home tonight and found I have now progressed to seven. The latest has taken two haibun and a tanka. I submitted several haiku, and they have ignored them, but I have a forgiving nature and won’t bear a grudge. Three of the haiku had been edited for me by a well known haiku writer, so the quality should have been OK. It’s just a matter of personal taste I suppose. Life is strange.
Small Copper on castor oil plant
That’s about it. I could talk about TV but if you aren’t able to watch UK TV it will mean nothing. Even if you can, it won’t necessarily mean a lot. TV, at the moment, seems to be the worst it has ever been, though that may just be because I don’t want to watch some the fantastic new dramas they keep telling me they are producing. In terms of cast and writing you can’t actually beat dinnerladies anyway. Unfortunately, nothing lasts forever.
Small Tortoiseshell
The butterfly photos are beautiful, Simon. As for submissions and acceptances, sometimes things don’t make much sense and come down to personal taste. I remember a friend from my youth who used to show her horse. There was one event where she felt she and the horse performed well, but did not place at all. When she asked the judge what she did wrong, he told her, “I just don’t like your horse”. That seems a bit extreme to me, but I suppose it can and does come down to an editor’s personal taste at times.
Yes, sometimes it just isn’t your day. Other time they pick the thing you threw in to make up the numbers . . .
I agree about Dinner Ladies, it left an unfillable hole in the schedules.
Great butterfly pictures. I nearly didn’t bother with the Uruguay/Namibia match, but it comes well recommended.
Just had a quick look at Japan/Samoa. Another one decided by a red card by the look of it. Who’d want to play in this sort of lottery?
The game is so much more dangerous now