“There is pansies, that’s for thoughts”
(They may, in fact, be violas, in which case my mind and this blog post are equally empty of thoughts.)
Tag: blogging
survival
Sometimes, there’s an idea that just never gels satisfactorily into a poem and the only thing to do is forget it and move on.
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time to focus
Yesterday, I posted the thousandth post on this blog. That means today’s post is number one thousand and one.
As soon as I thought of that number, I found I had the 1960s carpet cleaner jingle in my head:
That in turn reminded me of my time as an EFL teacher and the Spanish student, Diego, who came to class without his deberes. When I asked where his homework was, he replied: “In my carpet.”
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torque talk
Yesterday’s photo was a single daisy: one of the first flowers many of us learn to love, and one that tends to be associated with natural simplicity.
Today’s picture – also from my mother’s garden – is a rather more complex scenario, but one that appears to be laden with budding possibilities:
all mod comms
Yesterday I said I didn’t really know what to post, so made do with some old photos.
I’m not doing much better for inspiration today, but even if I still don’t have much idea about what to post, I do have a picture of a post box.
It’s a typical old pillar box – I think it’s Victorian – and the modern red brick houses in the background don’t exactly set it off very well.
Fortunately I didn’t need to go far to find another one with a better backdrop, and with a traditional red phone box alongside as well:
don't confuse the narrator 