Yesterday seems to have been a day of doing much, but finishing without a lot to show for it. I’ve edited a few pieces, written the start of two more and composed an article on a Coventry medallion. Then I cooked a couple of quiches and watched TV with Julia when she returned from her stint at the cafe.
She reset the TV yesterday morning. We’ve been having pixelation on some channels, which we originally put down to thunderstorms, then transmitter problems. Other things then started to malfunction and we eventually decided it needed resetting. This seems to have done the trick.
Two other good things happened too. One, I looked myself up on Google, trying to find the haibun that was used as an example in a writing prompt article. I found it, so that’s good. It’s the first time someone has asked me to let them use a poem for something like that. As I’m unlikely to win the King’s Gold Medal for poetry or be offered an honorary doctorate, this is as good as it gets for me.
I also noted that I am on the submissions page of another magazine, where they have links to a few poems as examples, a tanka this time. It’s nice to be selected, particularly when I’m having a difficult patch.
Today then proceeded much the same as yesterday – a lot of effort producing no real results – and nothing good happened today. I’m looking for a garage to see to the car warning light and the one I selected told me it couldn’t do anything for two weeks. They have taken some details and will give me a general opinion tomorrow, but I now need to think if i want to use a garage that can’t see me for two weeks. I’ve been spoiled over the years by having decent garages and this isn’t how I want to go on. I don’t mind booking two weeks in advance for routine work, but two weeks to check a minor fault isn’t good.
Julia took a picture of a wooden gorilla at the weekend. It amuses her to make comparisons. She also bought two leaping hares. I like hares. I wrote a poem about hares. It was rejected several times. I may write another now we have the sculpture. I assume from other pictures she sent me, that she is thinking of stones and Japanese maples for the garden.
