It's been a busy couple of weeks and I feel a bit like I'm Jack of All Trades, mastering them one by one (hopefully!)!

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Since taking on the role of pre-school marketing officer, I've been busy trying to organise for local papers to cover our Barnado's Big Toddle fundraising efforts and our sports day. It was great to see that the fundraising picture has already made front page of one local newspaper, with another paper taking their photo today and another one still to come. Unfortunately, only one of the three newspapers can cover our sports day, but another one has asked me if we can take our own pics and send some in. Help!

Now I do enjoy playing with a camera, but taking action shots of young children is not what I'd class as the easiest subject matter! In addition, that day I'm also supposed to be watching my son race, greeting the one newspaper photographer that is coming and manning a stall straight after the races! Bearing all this in mind, I'm hoping to pop into pre-school and try and get a few staged, 'just in case' sports day photos tomorrow. I only hope the weather doesn't turn out to be wildly different to the actual day!

Things have been quieter than usual for me on the poetry front the last week or so, because of all the other things I've been busy with. But I have been trying to tidy up my Writers Bureau competition entry. As Alison Chisholm is the judge and I'm currently doing the WB poetry course that she tutors, most of my better poems aren't even eligible. However, there is one poem inspired by my husband's recent work ball and my preparations for it that I have been trying to polish up.

And that was it until, low and behold, inspiration struck again today. There are just six days left till the WB deadline (if I enter online) and I'm now trying to massage it all into shape. On the one hand, I feel reluctant to let the chance go. But on the other hand, experience tells me my poems are often best written and then left to mature untouched for at least a few months before I have a crack at editing and polishing them. Oh well, only time will till, meanwhile I've new trades waiting to be mistressed. :-)