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