Monday 30 April 2007
Day 4: Website started! Rock and Roll!
Today, I managed to create a website, the photo adding process being unbelievably designed by a human being! Will tell you all the address soon, my legions of eager watchers throughout the known and infinite universe! Haha. Must rush to eat and attend my choir tonight. I never managed to become a rock star despite singing with my friend in a band at school but I settle for continuing to sing with my choir once a week. We perform a week from Saturday at Highgate. Haydyn's Nelson Mass and local composer Paul Patterson's Stabat Mater. It is at St Joseph's church, Highgate Hill, London, UK, N19. Near Highgate tube. The performance starts at 8 on the 12th. Come if you can! Time to rush to an all-important pre-rehearsal chat with my best friend Lilly (not real name-should I treat this like a book?!!).
Sunday 29 April 2007
Day 3: A day of Doubt!
A day of doubt after several hours trying to locate a URL for a photo and needing to download a ton of software for photos which still doesn't help! Wonder if all this blogging stuff is not just one of those many distractions writers manage to create whereby they have an excuse to not get on with the hard bit - the writing! I did, however, upload a photo of me to the site, via a button on my new toolbar, but only to today's posting. Ho hum. Still waiting for a human being to program a computer one of these days.
Meanwhile, I am continuing to read, having set myself the task of reading the BBC Big Read Top 100 books of all time. I have read about forty and am having to read many childrens' books as part of this as many youngsters seem to have voted too. At the moment, I am reading Swallows and Amazons (though out of sequence, as my local library don't seem to have heard of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude! Plebs!) I used to feel I didn't have the time to read but realise there is no other way to become a skilled writer - we must perfect ourselves just like in any other profession by study and assimilation.
Will this site just languish in a vacuum somewhere in the outer reaches of cyberspace or will I succeed one day in getting this blog out there and linked in to the great and glorious world? Doubt is bogging me down but that's understandable after hours trying to get the hang of it all. Will try to send an email to my friends and get the show on the road today. Hope things will improve.
To cheer myself up, I re-read something I wrote a few weeks ago:
I was walking to the back garden wearing my socks to feed the birds today, I explain to mum when she returns from Switzerland, having brought in my funny-looking sock.
"I tried to avoid the wet patch of the path (wet from the dripping pipe above that needs fixing) so I swung on the door handle to the shed hoping the door was locked, whereupon, of course, the door swung open and I had to leap onto the soggiest bit of the path by the drain got one sock wet.
"As it didn't smell better when I washed it with soap, I poured thick bleach on it, turning it into this!"
Mum laughs wholeheartedly as I hold up an orange and blotchy sock (that had been brown) and says it's okay and rather retro.
She gives me some excellent Swiss chocolates and I try not to eat them all (not very successfully!) while we sit watching the best comedy sitcoms of all time on TV.
That's your lot, today, people of the World! Haha!
Meanwhile, I am continuing to read, having set myself the task of reading the BBC Big Read Top 100 books of all time. I have read about forty and am having to read many childrens' books as part of this as many youngsters seem to have voted too. At the moment, I am reading Swallows and Amazons (though out of sequence, as my local library don't seem to have heard of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude! Plebs!) I used to feel I didn't have the time to read but realise there is no other way to become a skilled writer - we must perfect ourselves just like in any other profession by study and assimilation.
Will this site just languish in a vacuum somewhere in the outer reaches of cyberspace or will I succeed one day in getting this blog out there and linked in to the great and glorious world? Doubt is bogging me down but that's understandable after hours trying to get the hang of it all. Will try to send an email to my friends and get the show on the road today. Hope things will improve.
To cheer myself up, I re-read something I wrote a few weeks ago:
I was walking to the back garden wearing my socks to feed the birds today, I explain to mum when she returns from Switzerland, having brought in my funny-looking sock.
"I tried to avoid the wet patch of the path (wet from the dripping pipe above that needs fixing) so I swung on the door handle to the shed hoping the door was locked, whereupon, of course, the door swung open and I had to leap onto the soggiest bit of the path by the drain got one sock wet.
"As it didn't smell better when I washed it with soap, I poured thick bleach on it, turning it into this!"
Mum laughs wholeheartedly as I hold up an orange and blotchy sock (that had been brown) and says it's okay and rather retro.
She gives me some excellent Swiss chocolates and I try not to eat them all (not very successfully!) while we sit watching the best comedy sitcoms of all time on TV.
That's your lot, today, people of the World! Haha!
Saturday 28 April 2007
Day2: Every kick up the backside is a step forward on your path
Today's title is a Rumanian proverb and what better way to summarise the require attitude to get a book published! We must turn setbacks into success, sooner or later and with repeated effort.
I spent last night reinstating chunks of material back into my book, even though my book as it stands will probably need to be slimmed down during the editing process. Not 100% sure of whether to stop this book early and start my second book with the material from the end of this one. Need to get some professional feedback on that.
Nearly did not include this poem in my book, but decided to last night. I wrote it in Cannes.
NOSTALGIE
Remember, ma cherie
Ile Saint-Honorat's cicada-loud trees
revitalising our London hearts
with sun-celebrating wild life
with needed meditation.
Remember, ma cherie
sitting to picnic
on delicieux salade et fruit
by the warm sea
where I found you an old silver spoon
Remember, ma cherie
taking photos of one another
near the sea's blue under the arch
of Abbaye Notre-Dame de Lerins
where our unwinding began.
Remember, ma cherie
the immaculate streets dripping flowers
houses jolie with shutters
palm trees everywhere adding elegance
to the church of beauty.
I spent last night reinstating chunks of material back into my book, even though my book as it stands will probably need to be slimmed down during the editing process. Not 100% sure of whether to stop this book early and start my second book with the material from the end of this one. Need to get some professional feedback on that.
Nearly did not include this poem in my book, but decided to last night. I wrote it in Cannes.
NOSTALGIE
Remember, ma cherie
Ile Saint-Honorat's cicada-loud trees
revitalising our London hearts
with sun-celebrating wild life
with needed meditation.
Remember, ma cherie
sitting to picnic
on delicieux salade et fruit
by the warm sea
where I found you an old silver spoon
Remember, ma cherie
taking photos of one another
near the sea's blue under the arch
of Abbaye Notre-Dame de Lerins
where our unwinding began.
Remember, ma cherie
the immaculate streets dripping flowers
houses jolie with shutters
palm trees everywhere adding elegance
to the church of beauty.
Friday 27 April 2007
Day 1: Brief Blastoff
Struggling with photos! Not managed to get the wonders of the photo technology on this site working for me yet! But happy to have kicked off by following through with my intentions to get visible and create a blog. Enjoyed looking at other sites today, especially a popular artist's blog site.
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