When she went to the Narnia show just before Christmas this tree was still standing.
It was a slightly mixed day. I had a thousand Churchill crowns to pack. It is the 150th anniversary of his birth and various people are making plans to celebrate it. We got rid of the accumulated crowns about a year ago, but we are offered so many we had managed to build the stock up again. It’s remarkable how often they crop up, even sixty years after they were issued. This was not the most interesting aspect of the day, I have to admit. In the end I only packed 500, but the other 500 are part done. With phone calls and visitors I didn’t have enough time, which seems strange as you wouldn’t think that it would take so much time.
Snowdrops are out
I did take pictures, but decided to use some that Julia took when she went to Newstead Abbey with her group today. Several people didn’t turn up, and the gardens were cold. That meant they were able to fit everyone in the minibus and go out for a trip. One of the group managed to get a wet foot using the stepping stones but apart from that it all seems to have gone smoothly.
I also had an email. One of the submissions I sent a few days ago has met with success, the editor in question accepting two of the three tanka prose I submitted. This was a bit of a boost as I have felt under the cosh recently, being too tired to write after my various illnesses. I don’t often get two out of three accepted so it feels like a step up from my normal performance.
Fungus lurks in the stump of a felled tree – a suitable morbid subject for poetry perhaps.
Good pictures from Julia. I wonder when the next politician thought worthy of a memorial crown will arrive.
He was the first, and as far as I recall, the only, commoner depicted on a crown. Of course, we then had the woeful series of 50p and £2 commemoratives, but they often sidestep the problem – a black hole for Hawking and Bannister’s legs being used.
I can’t get WP to let me like your comment replies, but I almost always do like them.
I will be happy with that knowledge, even if you can’t press the button. Alternatively I can give you my views on cyclists and relieve you of the burden of liking them. 🙂
Congratulations on getting 2 of 3 tanka accepted, Simon!
Thank you. 🙂
Good for you on the writing
Thank you. Sometimes things go right, despite all my moaning. 🙂
That is a pleasing acceptance boost. I gave my godmother one of those crowns – it came back to me when she died.
Things go in circles. They are a fascinating coin, but one that exists in greater numbers than we really need. 🙂
Yes, good subject for poetry, but lurking fungus sounds creepy. Horror poetry? Those snowdrops are so lovely. 1000 crow s sound like a heck of a lot to pack.
First they need packing in plastic bags in 20s for ease of counting, and to stop them rattling. Then they need packing in the outer box, with packaging inside nd lots of tape outside . . .
It’s definitely a longer job than it appears. 🙂 However, it does mean we can afford to eat.
H. P. Lovecraft’s Fungi from Yuggoth came to mind… 🙂
And the recent television series The Last of Us.
I didn’t realise I had such worrying followers . . . 🙂
No TV here, but I have heard of that series. 🙂
Funnily enough I was thinking of Lovecraft last week. Prior to that I don’t think he had come to mind for 20 years before that. Strange isn’t it. I used to read him a lot.