For the past week I’ve been consciously practising the Law of Attraction to support me having the Writing Life. (Thanks Kim Falconer for reminding me what I already knew; and for putting me onto Pray Rain Journalling)
Last night, the Universe came through.The thing is, when the Universe delivers, it isn’t always immediately apparent. Sometimes you [...]
Archive for January, 2009
31 Jan
The Universe loves me!
22 Jan
The best reason not to blog
Well, the 2009 daily blog resolution didn’t get very far. But that’s because the 2009 WRITING THE NOVEL resolution is going swimmingly!!
I’ve dispensed with all the excuses and the dramas of 2008, I’m back in the saddle – and loving it.
My word count has actually fallen because I’ve taken out scenes that were naff or [...]
15 Jan
Vale The Prisoner
The sad loss of Patrick McGoohan at age 80 has me remembering that mad and wonderful show The Prisoner, and a weekend in Harlech, Wales, while on tour with a production of Peter Pan.
I hadn’t even realised The Village was a real place until I discovered it less than 10K from my B & B. Spent an entire day exploring what [...]
13 Jan
Are future readers being let down?
Witnessed today at a local (corporatised) child care centre (marketed as ‘early childhood learning’ centre), a fully qualified worker who could not read the word ‘chameleon’ in a book being read to the children.
Perhaps I’m just feeling tired and emotional, but how on earth can we instill a love of reading when those charged with [...]
12 Jan
Beating The Man
The new solar power system was hooked up at around 4 pm Friday and within the first 72 hours we’ve generated over 18 Kw. We’ve used about 13 Kw and sold the rest to the Electrickery Company Man. At the same time we’ve bought back some of his pesky coal-fired juice (at night when we [...]
8 Jan
Going solar at last
Just got confirmation from our supplier that tomorrow our solar power system is being installed – whoo hoo! We’re getting six panels which will generate about 1.2 Kw, and an inverter which has the capacity for 2Kw (so we can add more panels later if we want to).
So, if you buy green power, you never know [...]
7 Jan
Guilty chocolate
Having partaken of way too much chocolate over Xmas, I’ve just realised how much I’ve supported the child labour trade in Africa. I feel so dumb that I had no idea of the scale of the issue. Quarter of a million kids – many the victims of human trafficking - working in the chocolate trade, and our major [...]
7 Jan
2009 resolutions
In the past 24 hours two people have inspired me.
Kate Eltham’s (Electric Alphabet) resolution to blog every day in 2009 is an ambition greatly to be admired, and yes – why not aim for the top? I can relate to that.
I’ve just listened to Stephen Fry’s first Podgram – a wonderfully shambolic 23 minute rave from [...]
