The last post I published was really Monday’s post. this one is today’s post, though as it is 23.45 according to my computer clock that state of affairs will only last another 15 minutes.

Today, for the first time in ages I am free from the tyranny of my need to write a presentation for the Numismatic Society of Nottinghamshire. It was a tyranny I wore lightly, in fact I managed to ignore it for most of the ten months leading up to the five days of panic that marked the run up to the meeting.

Chilwell Factory Check

When I finish this I am going to sort of a dozen old poems, edit them and send them off to different magazines. I’ve just had a spreadsheet from Robin Houghton with the latest details of poetry magazines.. You can find the sign up page here if you are interested. It is quicker than trying to find all the information yourself, and contains many magazines I’ve never heard of.

After that I am going to write a new piece for the Numismatic Society Facebook page – which will be my 10th, I note. I will probably use a piece from my old talk on Peace Medals. I was talking to someone about that recently – how it’s possible to build a body of work by recycling old articles. I used to buy books on local aspects of the Civil War – it was a noticeable feature of the small scale publications associated with it that a number of keen authors were doing a lot of recycling. It’s also known as “sweating your assets” in business jargon, which always makes me feel more relaxed about my lack of business success. What with running things up flagpoles and blue sky thinking, sweating my assets would have been a step too far.

Admiral Vernon & Commodore Brown

However, I need a reasonably early night tonight, so I’d better stop this and get to bed. Poetry can wait.

Photos are from my posts on Numismatic Society’s FB page, though I recycled them for use on WP too, which is where the links go.