I have also realised the obvious thing that if I get up earlier and write here around now - 8.00 am - it is around midnight in America and everyone is actually there, excitingly. I was just putting a little comment on Badger's blog when she wrote something herself at that very minute. The thrill of it.

I am going to write some (slightly more) interesting stuff but not until this evening as I have decided to stop being so crap and sort out the entire house and garden before I am too old and then go away for a week with some combination of children. I was thinking of Greece as I have never been there and (pathetically unoriginally) my favourite catalogue, which I mentioned here, is set there and I bought some hand dipped church candles and a volume of modern Greek poetry along with a bathing costume. And was inspired by the scent of the candles and the romance of the words. (A Greek tetniuQ. yeleeK and drarrehS).

Speaking of poetry ... many of the random blogs that I pick to read seem to be written by illiterate teenagers around the world and have a certain sweetness. The latest is called ylliwtsua.blogspot.com (backwards..) and I love the poem 'Y...?' which I will be sending to my son.
- posted by Iris @ 4/17/2004 08:41:00 AM comment