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Toe in the Water

by Beholden

Rated: 13+ · Book · Experience · #2223922

A tentative blog to test the temperature.

Ten years ago I was writing several blogs on various subjects - F1 motor racing, Music, Classic Cars, Great Romances and, most crushingly, a personal journal that included my thoughts on America, memories of England and Africa, opinion, humour, writing and anything else that occurred. It all became too much (I was attempting to update the journal every day) and I collapsed, exhausted and thoroughly disillusioned in the end.

So this blog is indeed a Toe in the Water, a place to document my thoughts in and on WdC but with a determination not to get sucked into the blog whirlpool ever again. Here's hoping.

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Polaran

about 4 hours ago
In response to "Lofty Observations"

As someone who’s done more time in hospital beds than I’d like to admit, I can confirm—hospital ceilings are truly the unsung canvas of human imagination. Beholden, may your creativity paint masterpieces up there… preferably before the meds kick in and everything starts looking like abstract art. Stay strong and keep imagining!

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tj wanderlust-words-in-motion

about 8 hours ago
In response to "Lofty Observations"

I have been there. I even told my doctor they needed ceiling murals so I'd have something to look at and distract me as I lie helpless, my fate in the hands of the nurses.

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Beholden

about 11 hours ago
In response to "Lofty Observations"

I agree, absolutely.

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Nixie 🦊

about 11 hours ago
In response to "Lofty Observations"

Kidding aside, being trundled along on a gurney, with no authority over my own body makes me feel vulnerable.

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Ned

about 12 hours ago
In response to "Lofty Observations"

I remember that counting ceiling tiles was an activity I engaged in to pass the time in the dentist's chair when I was a kid. it helped distract from the procedure and my dentist's menacing chairside manner.

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tj wanderlust-words-in-motion

a day ago
In response to "A Slight Advance"

Doing reviews is difficult, at least if it's going to be a quality review. Give it some time and don't forget the main reason your here, to enjoy.

I think I speak for the majority when I say, "It's good to have you back!"

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Nixie 🦊

a day ago
In response to "A Slight Advance"

Your muse is still by your side. Even though what you've written was perhaps small, it counts as something.

On reviewing: I also think of reviewing as a way to support the website. If I can't think of how to begin a review, or imagine what I might say, I simply start writing and then it all flows.

As others have said, there's no need to push yourself. Settle back and let us entertain you.

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dogpack saving 4premium+

a day ago
In response to "A Slight Advance"

When you can, do, and when you need "you" time take time for yourself. You know best how to do you and do what you need.

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Quilli ☕

a day ago
In response to "A Slight Advance"

Your healing is far more critical than the number of reviews you get written, at the moment. Don't be so hard on yourself.

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JASmith

a day ago
In response to "A Slight Advance"

Reviews are the most difficult for me as well.

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July 21, 2024 at 6:55am

#1074211

I Do Like a Bit of Obscurity

I Do Like a Bit of Obscurity

Today I have completed my last entry for the fourth year of the Promptly Poetry Challenge. It’s an experimental little thing, my poem, but it also contains a reference that I have been debating whether or not to explain in a Note. After much internal debate, I have decided to write about it here, thereby leaving the interpretation of the poem entirely to the vagaries of fortune and the viewing habits of its readers. Any work of art must stand or fall on its own sooner or later, after all.

The reference is to flat hedgehogs and it originates in a few lines of sheer genius from Mackenzie Crook’s delightful comedy TV series, Detectorists. Rather than write out the exchange, I have embedded the relevant scene below. It may be incomprehensible to Americans, since I believe you don’t have hedgehogs, so I will tell you that a reasonable substitute would be the possum.

All very mysterious but hilarious if you’re a Brit.

Word count: 162

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