Julia’s manipulated image
The end of the month is looming. I have quite a lot left to write. I’ve been doing things for the Numismatic Society Facebook page, the military history newsletter and website, and similar things. in the last two months I have done 12 articles. They probably only come up to 6,000 words or so, but they all need research and photos and, in some cases I have to source illustrations from the net.
I’m now in a spot where I have to produce a number of poetry submissions and am finding that after two days grinding away on the laptop I am struggling. Time, I think, for a change of pace. Unfortunately, with five days until the end of the month, there isn’t a lot of room for wriggling.
This all seems very familiar, and I’m sure I said much the same last month. Yes, I checked, and I did.
As a daisy conservation measure we haven’t started cutting the grass yet
Sorry about that. I really must get a grip. I probably said that as well, didn’t I? Now that I’m retired and have lots of time, I really should be doing better with my productivity but it doesn’t seem to be working like that. I am going to have to start working more intelligently, rather than just spending all my time throwing words at a computer screen. I’m also going to have to prioritise writing for magazines that pay for contributions. That way I can pay for my subs to WP, Ancestry and the newspaper archive. It’s alright doing things for free, but let’s spend a minute looking at things.
Spring has finally arrived
I’m doing one article a week for the Numismatic Society on FB. It can seem to take forever while I’m doing it, and a number of the things have taken ages, as I’ve gradually uncovered detail then had to condense it to size. The idea was that I’d do a few hundred words (about the size of my average blog post) with a couple of photographs. What I didn’t allow for was the time it takes to research, check the facts and maybe source an illustration. Eventually, I thought, I would be able to drop it back to one a fortnight, as other people followed my example (or were worn down by my nagging) and started to contribute. But no, there are still just the two of us.
Julia, meanwhile, has been applying a cleevr digital whatnot to one of her photographs so it looks like something Turner might have done. She has also taken pictures of flowwers, so I used them to cheer my miserable, meandering, moaning blog post up a bit.
Trees and flowers
Having to checks the facts is very time consuming. Even when you are certain that you are right, you still have to do it if you are publishing. An article a week is a big commitment. Shout at the others until they pitch in.
For a while, in the days before eBay, I ran a postal auction. It taught me a lot about accuracy and the amount of work needed. I foolishly thought it would take a couple of months and others would start doing stuff, but I should have known better. People, as you doubtless know, are very resistant to work.
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It sounds like you and Julia have both been busy, Simon. I enjoyed the painting and the photos she provided.
She’s been busy. I been sitting at the computer . . .
Very impressed with Julia’s picture. Has she had it printed? I bet it would look really good framed.
She was looking at having it done but, as usual, hasn’t quite got round to it.
A fine bit of manipulation by Julia.It is good when our wives help us out with photographs.
It certainly is. leaves us to get on with the serious business of alliteration and puns. 🙂
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The bottom half of Julia’s photo is very french impressionist. And the top half is very “Lot Fleeing from Sodom is a painting by Benjamin West ” Would you ask Julia if I can copy it and use it for my desktop picture.
Thank you. I had to look the West painting up. I see what you mean. She says to help yourself or let me know if you want a copy emailing.
Thank Julia for me. I will take copy off your post in the first instance and see if it comes out properly.
OK. Let me know if you need any help.