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Butlins Veleta Competition Medallion 1954

Late Night Post and Consequences

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Two Admiral Vernon Medallions – the War of Jenkins’ Ear

After posting last night I went on to work into the early hours doing internet research on a medallion I am writing up for the Numismatic Society. It took about three hours (time flies when you are engrossed) and I ended up with several pages of notes and a lot of other information which I left floating around in my head.

I had to be up reasonably early in the morning to get ready for going to he doctor so only had four and a half hours sleep. I can function on that. In fact I did for many years. These days, being less enthused and energetic, I tend to fall asleep in front of TV so my “four hours” tend to spread by a good two or three hours as the day goes on. That’s what happened today.

Flying Horse of Gansu medallion – obverse

I dropped off for an hour in the morning in a break from typing and I slept for a couple of hours this evening, missing Pointless. During Richard Osman’s House of Games I was definitely not up to speed and after Mastermind, was left feeling slow. I knew the answers but I couldn’t dig them out quickly enough.

At the moment, I am only halfway through the article, have done very little poetry and didn’t bake the cheese scones I was thinking about. With a full night of sleep I would have managed them all.

Just when I thought I’d corrected my bad sleep habits they sneak back . . .

Shakespeare Medallion by Paul Vincze

It’s difficult to say whether I would have achieved more if I’d gone to bed at the proper time last night, as I would probably have drifted off course anyway. Though I might have been sharper at the quizzes.

Tomorrow is another earlyish start as I am now well enough to start taking Julia to wood turning. While I’ve been ill she has been going by bus.

 

Late Nights and New Plans

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I spent last night, and a large part of the early morning, paying the price for poor time management. Having snored my evening away in front of the TV I started preparing submissions a little before midnight. The original plan had been to produce five submissions in the month of March. It ended up as a plan to make two submissions in the last two days of the month. I say “plan” but there wasn’t much planning involved, just a recognition that I was going to have to scurry around and get a couple of submissions done. I did it with hours to spare.

I am at work now, after snatching a few hours sleep, and though I could probably submit something tonight, I don’t think I will. I have very little to send, and submitted a couple of poems last night that had only been written twenty minutes before sending, which is considered bad practice in writing circles. You are supposed to let them mellow before writing the final draft. Larkin, I believe, took years over some of his poems. A book I read last week recommended two weeks, which I don’t really think is enough. However, I’ve been struggling to write, as you may remember me mentioning once or twice, so I didn’t have much to offer and, wanting ten pieces for a magazine, I wrote three to make the numbers up. The proof will be in what happens next.

Later . . .

Back home, sitting at the computer, I have just finalised the shopping delivery for tomorrow. As usual, I have a lot of things to do and the first thing I will do after finishing this will be to start work on submissions for April. As the days grow longer and the trees fill with blossom, it’s probably a good time to start writing poetry. It’s also time to reflect on the fact that I rote the majority of the blog in a fifteen minute gap in my pre-work hour. After dropping Julia at work I usually arrive early at work and just start packing. I really am a model employee. I think, a part of my time management I may start spending 15 minutes preparing the day’s blog. It does make things easier.