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A Flock of Psychedelic Sheep

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After writing about quiche and rejection when you may have been expecting more Shaun the Sheep, I thought I’d better make a bit more effort and get some more photos on.

I’m just not sure what to write. It’s going to have to be entertaining to make up for the fact that Shaun is not that interesting to everyone, but there’s a limit to the magic you can weave when all you have to report is some heavyweight procrastination and a call to the doctor so I can give more blood. I would have thought they had enough to build a fill size model of me by now, but it seems they still need more.

We have had a large meal of quiche and salad and Julia is currently doing her normal evening thing of flitting in and out and doing various odd jobs which, in her mind are vital to the smooth running of our lives.

 

All our married life I have tried to get her to accept three things, which she seems unable to do.

I will only mention one, as discussing wives in blogs is not a recipe for a relaxed evening. She has never been able to grasp that planting things in pots is just making work. God gave us flower beds and that’s where we should plant stuff. The rain will water it, the roots will seek the moisture out and if it dies you replace it with something more drought-resistant. You don’t stick it in a pot and spend two hours watering every night. IF you have a small space or a balcony, then you use pots – but half a dozen pots on a balcony is not hard work.

And so, more Shaun. When I am more relaxed I will revisit this, but for now, here are more photographs.

A Day of Non-Achievement

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Another day and a rejection. It wasn’t unexpected, because I haven’t been struggling for the last few months. Normally I would not have sent much out this month, but having set myself targets for submissions, and needing to show some self-discipline, I wrote and submitted anyway. In some ways it was a bad idea, but based on past experience I can’t afford to let the momentum fade.

Believe it or not, there was a time when I used to have all my submissions ready for the beginning of the month. I seemed to have so much time in those days. The theory was that if I submitted first, all the subsequent submissions had to do two things – one is that they had to be good enough for publication, but the second was that they had to be good enough to replace the submissions I’d already submitted. This works if editors look at submissions as they come in, but it doesn’t if they wait until the end of the submission period before looking.

There used to be a lot of blogs and internet articles about the science of submissions at one time. I couldn’t find any tonight. There were a few about how to submit (spelling, manners, timeliness, stick to the submissions guidelines etc) but none of the sort I wanted – the ones that used to treat it as pseudo-science and work out ways of increasing your chances by trickery and mind control.

Pictures are from Julia and my sister – they went round the Shaun the Sheep exhibition in Peterborough yesterday. More about that tomorrow. I now have a home made quiche to eat and a wife to talk to. She hasn’t seen much of me today as I have been messing about on the keyboard and achieving very little.

Ah well, time to go. I will add a few photos and talk about them in the next post.