Another outing for this photo

Somehow, I missed Tuesday. It wasn’t much of a day and we had rain falling audibly on the flat roof above us as we worked.

The only good thing was that when I switched on my emails to check them before going to bed, was that I have had another acceptance.

It my look, to someone just reading the blog for the first time, as if my life is one long acceptance, but this isn’t the case. Due to the erratic nature of my submissions I hadn’t submitted anything since October. My October submissions produced one acceptance and two rejections. It ws a poor month, everything considered, but sometimes there are months where nobody is open for submissions. I appear to have made twelve submissions in September, but they were better spread than my efforts in January and I didn’t notice them.

I have noticed that editors tend to select the first haibun or tanka prose from the selection when I submit the required three. This might be because I naturally order them from bad to worse. It’s definitely true that the third is often not as good as the others. Then I looked again. My last six successful submissions all resulted in the first one being picked. However, I then had a run of six where the first was only picked once, so I may be wrong.

This is known as clutching at straws. Tuesday produced little to write about and Wednesday has been little better (a blood test and a Shingles booster vaccination)  so I’ve written about submissions.

Snowy Detail

The alternative was to tell you about my nosebleed (I’m currently typing with a piece of kitchen roll shoved up one nostril) but I thought a couple of hundred words on submissions might be less disturbing than the word picture of a gory keyboard warrior and the resulting discussion.  So I won’t discuss it.

No photographs on this one because WP seems to have stopped working. I can select photos but the button to load them seems to have stopped working. This applies to headers and photos in the text.

I suspect interference from foreign governments. I’m having problems with eBay photos at work too. It’s state-sponsored hackers. Has to be. I mean, WP and eBay never have problems . . .

Magpie in the snow

There is a warning out for snow tomorrow, though it is hedged round with provisos. It may not actually arrive. Or it may be sleet. None of the scenarios engages my enthusiasm. Even if there is no snow I won’t feel happy until it’s Friday and there is definitely no snow.

Yes, later in the evening I was able to add photos.