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A traditional Christmas Dog…

25 Tuesday Dec 2012

Posted by D.A Lascelles in Musings

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beast of nightmare aspect, Bullet-time, Christmas, dogs, Photography, snow, snow cat, Snow dog, Snowballs, The Matrix


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It is that time of year again, that time when I post a picture of a dog to celebrate some festival or other such as [please insert appropriate midwinter religious feast name here]. This is a time honoured tradition having been done for all of, oh, a couple of years now. That is serious tradition in terms of the internet.

So here is Eddie enjoying the pleasures of the snow that hit us early in the year and playing catch with snowballs using bullet-time in a very Matrix style manner… And in the background you can also see the snow dog/cat/Teddy Bear/whatever strange beast of nightmare aspect that we attempted to build in the garden.

And because it is [insert appropriate festival] I am feeling generous so here is another from the same day…

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Of course, typically for Manchester at this time of the year, we have a wonderful example of rain, rain and possibly more rain later. Chances of snow this year incredibly minimal…

There, have a Merry [insert festival] and a Happy New Year and I will see you all when the madness of this insane period of the year is over with and we can all get back to being our usual selves…

Guest blog blues…

20 Tuesday Dec 2011

Posted by D.A Lascelles in Guest posts, Musings

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#amwriting, Christmas, Christmas number one, Doctor Who, Dr Who, education, guest blogging, guest posts, history, Hurt, NIN, Nine Inch Nails, snow, TV, X Factor


A while back I was asked to do a guest blog for the amwriting community. I put together an article comparing being a published writer for the first time to being a teacher for the first time. I enjoyed writing it, I assume some people enjoyed reading it (the comments were all good anyway) and it was clearly so successful that they asked me to come back and do another one… I agreed and was given a date when it was due to be posted.

Then I realised I did not have a blind thing I wanted to talk about.

Oh, I have ideas. A reasonable number of ideas. Every now and again I think of something and part of my brain pops up with a little note saying ‘You could do a blog post about that’. Recently, I have had thoughts about British Urban fantasy and what it means, the Christmas Number one phenomenon and how it seems to have turned into a battle between the X factor winner and whatever alternative and inappropriate tune we can think of (currently seems to be Nine Inch Nail’s Hurt), things I have noticed about Dr Who plots, things I have noticed about education and the teaching of history*, and many other subjects. Trouble is, the more I think about some of these ideas, the less interesting and novel they seem. I get less and less motivation to actually sit down and write about them.

So, yes, this is the ultimate irony – a blog post about how I cannot seem to write blog posts 🙂

Part of it is some form of quality control system in my brain which seems to be at work. Any idea is faced with a barrage of questions along the lines of ‘is this worthwhile?’ ‘Has anyone else ever written about this before?’ ‘Will anyone care enough to read?’ Now, for my own blog here these questions are often soon silenced. It’s my blog, I write what the hell I want, and if there are issues I am sure readers will let me know… However, when it is a guest blog for someone else, I often get greater angst about it. It is not my domain I am befouling with my stench, it is the domain of someone else. This adds a whole new level of concern about the relevance of what you are saying. The result is often me chickening out and posting another photo of a cute dog.

So, while I am still pondering the dilemma of what to write for #amwriting I would ask you, the readers of this, to answer me some questions:

– What subjects do you think I should talk about on this blog? Which posts have you liked the most?

– What current issues do you think face writers and/or readers which may be blog worthy for the #amwriting blog?

– If I were to post my PGCE essay on why History is an essential subject, would anyone bother to read it?

Answers on a comment form below, please 🙂

 

*That was one I had today, there was an article on Radio 4 about it and I once wrote an essay about how important History is as a subject. I may still blog about this one at some point… I may also still do a post on Nine Inch Nails and the Christmas number one at some point soon…

SNOW!!!!!!!!

16 Friday Dec 2011

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snow


The View of our garden this morning…

Christmas Update

14 Wednesday Dec 2011

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bad weather, christmas holidays, Gluhwein, hibernating, Hibernation, Lake District, productivity, sensible advice, snow


Apparently the Lake District currently looks like this (photo taken Christmas Day 2010)

In a previous post about ‘going home for the holidays’ I posted about how we like to go to the Lake District for Christmas and one of the reasons was because it is more likely to snow. Well, on BBC Breakfast this morning there was an article discussing safe walking on the hills in the winter. It had a lot of sensible advice like ‘don’t do it’ and, ‘if you do do it don’t for god’s sake use your car sat nav, buy a bloody map!’ As well as adding my own support for this advice (having, as I already mentioned in the above post, suffered from bad weather on a walk in the past) I would like to point out that the video footage of the lakes on this piece definitely showed snow covered hills. Therefore all I can say is: SNOW!!!!!!!!! 🙂

In other news, yesterday was my last day of ‘proper’ work until after Christmas. This means that I am now officially on Christmas holidays (unless I get called up for any emergency supply in the next two days…). Therefore, it is now time for this picture to be displayed:

I imagine that this is a sentiment shared by many at the moment. In between periods of hibernating, I do intend to wake up occasionally and do some writing. Assuming I find time. After all, Friday is International Gluhwein Day! Which may make things difficult from a being organised and productive point of view…

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