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Farmyard Tales: Growing vegetables in your car and other forms of procrastination
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No farm but lots of tales. Wednesday, 14 April 2010. Growing vegetables in your car and other forms of procrastination. Why is it as soon as I have an approaching deadline I begin to find other pressing tasks to do? I found this list I wrote months ago about procrastination because I don’t change. Back in September I wrote:-. Actually I feel like having a little nap right now and so far today I have…. Don’t know why I bothered, it’s full of weeds again now and we’re in April]. Cleaned up the bird table.
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Farmyard Tales: How not to get published
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No farm but lots of tales. Tuesday, 6 April 2010. How not to get published. With all the chaos of the past couple of weeks I’ve neglected to blog about the wonderful new issue of Open Wide Magazine. Why am I mentioning it? Sort of….It’s great for me to be able to read a huge variety of writing and not have to mark it. There are some frustrations about being the Fiction Editor though because I want. You haven’t followed the submission guidelines. 2 You haven’t followed the submission guidelines. Okay, so ...
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Farmyard Tales: November 2008
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No farm but lots of tales. Sunday, 30 November 2008. As promised, here's the link to the prose poem that I had accepted by Shadow Train. It's a prose poem which many of you may be unfamiliar with. Poets.org. Explain a little about prose poetry but I guess the simplest way is for you to read some prose poems. And one poem in particular has continued to sit in the corner of my mind rather like a fat angry moggy waiting for its lunch and watching my every move just in case I should drop a morsel of food whi...
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Farmyard Tales: March 2009
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No farm but lots of tales. Monday, 30 March 2009. On having a crisis of faith. I’m currently having a creative crisis of faith – not any religious faith you understand, although I suppose that would be rather useful for me right now – faith in my writing and its (my? Rd work keeping the faith and getting out there, it just is. I feel like a petula. Nt child – I want to be taken notice. Wednesday, 25 March 2009. Nahmore like William Hill. And I drink waaaay too much coffee. Monday, 23 March 2009. So in ke...
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Farmyard Tales: January 2009
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No farm but lots of tales. Wednesday, 28 January 2009. I'm sitting surrounded by books, notes, course handbooks, assignments and other bits and pieces all to do with work. My laptop is perched on my lap (of course) and shares the space with a sleeping cat. How much work have I done today? I think I'd be just the same as I am now - avoiding work. So why don't I just get down to it and work? Take the internet away from me and my productivity would rocket. I'd also probably read more too. The answer is clear.
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Farmyard Tales: March 2010
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No farm but lots of tales. Wednesday, 24 March 2010. Where did my ‘normal’ life go to? He should have been feeling ill; he felt fine. We tested him over the weekend and he had 25. The confirmation came at the local GP’s surgery where we were told that we’d already diagnosed it ourselves so we’d better get to the local hospital quickly. And here we are. Which I’ve often glanced at BD (Before Diabetes) but now I’m scouring for hints, tips and the road map out of here. Tuesday, 16 March 2010. I took the lo...
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Farmyard Tales: Where did my ‘normal’ life go to?
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No farm but lots of tales. Wednesday, 24 March 2010. Where did my ‘normal’ life go to? He should have been feeling ill; he felt fine. We tested him over the weekend and he had 25. The confirmation came at the local GP’s surgery where we were told that we’d already diagnosed it ourselves so we’d better get to the local hospital quickly. And here we are. Which I’ve often glanced at BD (Before Diabetes) but now I’m scouring for hints, tips and the road map out of here. 31 March 2010 at 11:00. Subscribe to:...
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Farmyard Tales: February 2009
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No farm but lots of tales. Monday, 2 February 2009. The most snow we've had in 18 years apparently. The south east of England is currently being hit by snow - the trains were cancelled, buses stopped in London and the major, Boris Johnson cancelled the congestion charge for the day. With a mention of both yoga and pilates I do realise that sounds as if I've somehow become a WAG (a footballers' Wives And Girlfriends - you know the type - they look very groomed and have perfect figures, perma-tan, plenty o...
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Farmyard Tales: Clawing back normal
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No farm but lots of tales. Saturday, 3 April 2010. This morning the boys have gone to their dad’s – they go every other weekend down to the farm. R got up this morning with a blood glucose level of 4.4 – low but not worryingly so. In fact this is the first time he’s dipped below 5 so we feel as if we’re finally getting to grips with the condition (I know – how ridiculous is that! He ate a large breakfast – hot chocolate (Skinny Cow – no sugar! He’ll be fine, I’m sure he will. Labels: blood glucose levels.
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Farmyard Tales: May 2009
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No farm but lots of tales. Wednesday, 6 May 2009. Posting and waiting for feedback. I've just posted a sonnet I wrote a little while ago on a poetry workshop website. I'm waiting for feedback and almost biting my nails down to the knuckle.well, I would if I bit my nails, but you get the idea. It's ridiculous because I've had poetry published, I've had articles published - I had a regular column in a magazine for goodness sake! I guess that's always a problem for writers - tinkering. So far I've been.
