Manic Monday - or should that be Sunday?
Panic set in yesterday when I realised my car's MOT should have been done a week ago! Our lazy weekend suddenly turned into a mad whirl of activity.
First, we had to fit new windscreen wipers, then desperately ring round trying to find somewhere which does MOTs on a Sunday. Alas, no luck, not even at KwikFit! Instead, I then had to practise driving my husband's car (a sluggish Mondeo diesel compared to my tiger-like Mitsubishi Galant) while he sorted out train times for work.
All this, and my elder son was keen to go swimming for the second time this weekend. (We're keen to encourage it ourselves as he doesn't like swimming lessons.) Then, sudden inspiration to make two poetry submissions deadlined the end of the day, as well as two more short and sweet entries. Still I'm thriving on it all and we even managed to pack the children off to their grandparents for Sunday night, which gave me more time for reading and editing. Result!
I have now finished Paterson's article on poetry and lyrics in the latest Poetry Society Poetry Review and read Fiona Sampson's piece about listening poems on Guardian unlimited. Fascinating stuff, though my brain is still trying to take it all in. Anyway, I have decided to try and concentrate more consciously on sound and musicality in my poetry and less on journalistic-style semantics. (I feel hearing is one of my least developed senses. Though I learned recorder and piano as a child, it never came very naturally. ) To this end, my husband has promised to teach me bass guitar. I don't know who most needs to be wished good luck, him or me?
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Learning some notes helped me to appreciate that songwriting and poetry writing are different in lots of ways, yet it's interesting how the two can complement both subjects.
If I ever get the guitar out again, it will be interesting to see if I've remembered the notes I learnt. Not looking forward to the sore skin at the ends of my fingertips though. Still, it's all in the name of experimental creativity and hopefully developmental progress!
You've been quite industrious with your Short & Sweet entries. I've still got a few to post and wondered about the deadline. Is the deadline tomorrow at midnight?
Feeling a bit pushed at the moment as my grandson has had a very nasty bug and he's been off school since Thursday and he's here with me again today. He's looking much better though, yet not fit enough to return to school just yet.
To return to music and songwriting, Sarah, I remember you wrote a beautiful lyric and won the songwriting comp a couple of years ago. December Days, I think it was called. It was put to music and it sounded wonderful!
Will have to come back to take note of your recommendations as my grandson wants me to watch Scoob Doo with him for the second time this morning!
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09/07/07 @ 09:38 · http://www.milltech-systems.co.uk I don't feel I've been very adventurous myself with the short and sweet, but we'll see.
I always tend to try and get them in by the ninth just in case. I would have thought the ultimate deadline is on the 10th either midnight GMT, Midnight British summer-time or midnight local to the author.
Good luck! I think your Oyster Sauce is already a top entry and your mirror one is good too.
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10/07/07 @ 21:54 · http://www.milltech-systems.co.uk I did my grade one piano as a child. I really enjoyed my lessons. The problem was I didn't enjoy playing enough to enjoy the solitary practice.
Still time changes people, so we'll see. My boys love music so it will be good for us to all practise together.
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