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A Few Notes and a Count – (Day 157 Post 158)

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As things stand it is Day 157 as I write and this will be post 158, so I have caught up with my posting after the time I took off for the wedding.  This has been assisted by finding a couple of drafts which I have brought back to life, which meant I just needed to add a few bits and pieces to the already existing text. I’ve also wiped off a few drafts which were clearly going nowhere.

In the last week or two I have also sneaked in a couple of extra poetry submissions to proper poetry magazines (I have decided that a move away from the Japanese forms is required at this moment. It’s a change of emphasis rather than a career change. I need to expand my horizons again and, now that I am (almost) immune to rejection I am pressing forward.

Pomegranate wallpaper

So far I have made six submissions in the last 10 days and had three rejections. I’m trying not to read too much into the speed of rejection. However, I clearly have work to do.

Talking of which, I need to start my numismatic writing again and get a few more things in hand. It’s OK saying I’ve caught up with the posting on the blog, but there’s always more to do. Lots more to do. Really, I should have started 50 years ago. I always meant to, but other things sort of took over.  If there is an afterlife, and if they run a version of Mastermind my specialist subjects are likely to include Goof Intentions, Procrastination and Unfinished projects. And we all know where it ends up when you pave a road with good intentions.

That’s it for now. If I don’t post now the count will become inaccurate.

Purple Poppies

A Question of Difference

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Mornings can be very different.

At the beginning of the week we had frost. On one of the frosty days the frost had obviously melted slightly and refrozen, producing a glazed surface rather than the textured frost I normally expect. Fortunately the screen had been covered, but the rest of the windows were left with a covering that resisted the ice scraper. Eventually, a mix of cunning and heat did the trick.

It has been frost free for the last few days. I hope this will be the case again tonight, as I have left the cover off the screen.

This morning, in a fast-moving stream of traffic, where were had queued for20 minutes on Monday, I had a good view of an advert on the back of a bus – Motorcycle Funerals. I’ve seen a motorcycle hearse on a TV advert, but until now, that was the only place. As I said to Julia, it’s a bit of a double-edged marketing ploy. The only real motorcycle enthusiast in our family, would probably have loved it. Unfortunately, as he was killed whilst riding his motorbike, I can’t see that the family would have been in favour of the idea if such things had existed back then.

At the end of my journey I parked and went into the shop, sitting in the back room to start work. When I looked out (when the boss arrived twenty minutes later) there was a blue light flashing. In that twenty minutes there had been an accident on the ring road and an ambulance had been called. I’m not sure what happened, but it just shows how things can change in an instant and somebody’s life can change.

And on that philosophical note, I will call it a day, add some photos and go to bed.

If you search for “pig” in my media files most of the pictures feature pigeons. This probably reveals many things says more about the way I title my pictures. Pig? Yes, pig. I was going to follow up the puffin photos with pig photos and maintain a level of cuteness. However, without sifting through thousands of shots I am unlikely to find more pigs, hence the final picture.

Pigeon