TFH

Jul 19, 2006 15:31

If it weren't so bloody hot, today would probably be one of those quietly good days - not a big-bubble-writing, psychedelic "wow, what a fantastically fantastic day" kind of day, but a calm, pretty, sense-of-quiet-contentment kind of day. But it's too hot. Not just averagely too hot either. I'm aware I'm a winter person, and have a somewhat unnerving emotional attachment to wearing jumpers, and therefore all hot weather is too hot, but today is really really too hot. Gah. According to the weather forecast lady (who works for the BBC and therefore may well be wrong) it's going to be cooler tomorrow, but it's also going to rain overnight and therefore be horribly humid! Yay! Just what we always wanted! At least the heat's dried up the water feature/wheelbarrow/mosquito hatchery in the garden, and at least I decided to walk the 6 miles along the Southwell Trail in an hour and a half yesterday and not today!

Anyway, enough of the weather. Today has potential good-dayness because it is the fourth anniversary of my parents officially splitting up and us all moving house. Which might not sound like a good thing to be celebrating, but it is. It's like when Mum asks me whether I'd have preferred to not have gone to the High School - I don't know how things would have turned out had it not happened, but a lot of very good things have happened because it did. And bad stuff, of course, but such is life. I like living here, and I like having two houses (three if you include Aber)! So I've come back from Mum's, and I'm making nice dinner with jelly for pudding, and then I'm going with Dad to cool down in the caves for an evening. And it shall be sparkly.

Today also has potential good-dayness because I got a letter in the post this morning saying that another one of my poems is going to be published! I sent it off along with some others at the end of June to a competition in the hope of winning £1000, which would come in handy. Unfortunately they're not going to give me the money, but they do want to publish it, so I guess I should bask in the reflected light of the silver lining! It's quite cool... they've sent me a proof to edit/correct (and it needs it, because they've removed half the punctuation - morons) and also a copy of the cover. My poem's going to be in a book! A national book, not just one in Aber! And it has pretty artwork on the cover :) If anyone wants to read it, comment here and I'll either post it or add you to my poetry journal friends-list and you can read it there. Today the UK, tomorrow the world!

weather, home, parents, poetry

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