Community Gardening – Sherwood – Nottingham
I didn’t realise until WP started posting a daily dose of retrospective posts, that I am writing about the same thing over and over again.
In 2025 I was writing about medical matters and the planning and scheduling behind my poetry writing.
In 2024 I wrote about elections and the moral shortcomings of politicians, including Peter Mandelson.
In 2023 I wrote two posts on the same day. One was about not having any ideas (note that I wrote the title for this post before starting the original post, which is now edited to nothing). The other was about the contents of my head and producing ideas from there.
In 2022 the subject was ideas. Can you see a pattern developing? That was the year that I gave up on titles – the post being Day 185.
In 2021 it was slightly better. That was the day that a lady rang the shop to confirm that we were Collectors World. Having established that, she proceeded to ask me how she could change the batteries in her carol-singing ceramic rabbit figurine. It turns out there was a shop selling gi
In 2020 I wrote 10 Good Things About Breathing.
In 2019 it was a rant about old folk on mobility scooters. It was a sign of things to come, and slightly poignant as my own mobility scooter is sadly under-used.
Bumble Bee Mencap Garden Wilford
It seems to have been a good day for me, as there are more posts – 2018, two from 2017 and one from 2016. I won’t link to them all as it’s a lot of reading, but I am pleased I managed to get 11 successive years. On some dates they only pick up half of that.
It seems that the further I get back the more interesting I become – some of the unlinked posts include baking pizza, and building benches from pallets. However, there is still some chuntering about sunburn, fish and chips and birdwatching.
The pattern is there on other days too and the conclusion is clear – I am gradually writing about a shrinking pool of subjects. I don’t just need new subjects for poems, I need new subjects for blogging.
The shopping has arrived, so after we have put that away I will start to look for new ideas.
Figs at Wilford Mencap Garden
I think most writers tend to be repetitive. The seasons change but they bring similar delights, things to look forward to. And also challenges as we deal with the heat, cold, and aging.
I must look for more points of view and see more small things – TP is good at spotting small things.
I agree weather could be a good topic. Always changing, no two days are alike. The moon and its cycles shake things up a bit, appearing in both the day and nightime skies depending on time of month and time of year.
Mostly, I would agree with you, but this summer it has been mainly hot, too hot or hot and stuffy. Even nature is against me! 🙂
don’t we all wrote about the same five things, just with a slight perspective shift?
Probably – I’ve never counted them. It’s a bit like the finite number of plots for novels – between 5 and 100 depending on which article you read.
Unfrotunately I seem to be losing my ability to make it fresh.
I just reduced my tbr….I cut out all books with dual pov, one historic and one present day that compares women’s lack of freedoms, stolen ideas or surviving a war. got rid of 100 books with essentially the sane story
That’s ruthless! It’s also worrying you could find that many. Are we finally running out of stories?
it’s amazing how many books have this premise…
It seems like it would be interesting, until you find you are reading it again and again.
exactly
🙂
How about shopping lists?
I seem to remember someone down your way who did a whole blog on them – it was very entertaining.
I think that was Yvonne who spends her time between New Zealand and Italy.. I’m sure you could do something similar, especially incorporating the substations in home delivery
looks like your suffering from a substitution of your own in that comment. Don’t you just love auto-correct (sic)?
Well spotted, Quercus. I usually read it over before posting
🙂 You should see some of the things that crop up in my old posts – absolutely dreadful. 🙂
Derrick I would love to know the name of Yvonne’s blog. Could you please let me know, thanks.
Actually, Suzanne, she was in Australia and doesn’t post any more. This is her site: Yvonne
ytab36@hotmail.com
Oh well, that’s a pity she doesn’t blog any longer.
Maybe (as some girls have stated to me over the years) It’s not what you say, it’s the way you say it? I reckon you could write about the weather and it would be entertaining! 😉
I might have to test that one out. Unlike you, I have few interesting anecdotes so am left to sift through the dross of a dull life. Still, despite the dullness and total lack of healthy habits, I’m still here. Alexander the Great was only 32 and Mussolini was only 62. I may not have made such a mark on world history, but at least I have lived longer.
It was Julia who suggested using Mussolini there – less divisive that Hitler (56) and less likely to upset my elderly readers than Harold Shipman (57). It can be very difficult selecting appropriate historical figures for comparison.