Barf! Barf!
Mar. 7th, 2008 09:04 pmBARF ONE!
I'm furious today!
I had a renewal form from the DVLA for Lucy's road fund licence tax, and it's gone up enormously. I now have to pay £180 as opposed to £115 payable by people whose cars are less than 1549 cc. That's an extra £75 which is grossly unfair when you consider that I probably only drive 3000 miles per year now, if not a lot less and that I only bought a larger car because of my difficulties with arthritis. I'm so angry I want to break something!
BARF TWO!
Last night I was terribly sick again at 1.00 am. It was exactly the same as last time. I went to the loo for a pee, and just as I was leaving the bathroom, I had this overwhelming sickness. Again, it was lucky I was already in the bathroom, because I really wouldn't have made it there from my bedroom.
I really didn't want to eat anything this morning, but I have to eat something because of taking my pills, so I had an apple. For lunch I had dry toast, but I still felt digestively uncertain enough not to dare to go to the Lit & Phil. By this evening, of course, I was back to normal, so we've had our usual Friday evening kebab. No doubt I shall find out at 1.00 am whether that was extremely foolish or not. I didn't want to disappoint John and Charles, though. I'm sitting here looking at an apple, wondering if I dare.........
I had planned to go to the Lit & Phil this afternoon, but in the end I didn't dare!
Still, I had a pleasant enough afternoon at home, doing some character plotting for my new project. I'm amazed at how long it's taken, although I have done it in quite a lot of detail. I really enjoyed doing it too, so even if, as usual, I end up boring myself rigid and eventually have to file it in the WPB, I will at least have enjoyed doing it this time. However, this time I wrote a Prologue and am still fairly pleased with it, although it will probably have to be edited quite severely.
Whenever I've tried to write a long piece before, I've always worked out the plot beforehand and then written until it made me so bored I could scream. If it bores me, how boring must it be for a reader? This time I decided to leap in with a place and a vague idea, without a worked-out plot but with a cast of characters. It was quite fun looking up suitable names on Scroogle. I based the characters on a group of people I used to know quite well. I haven't plotted the two main characters yet but I have them in my mind's eye and I really already know what they're going to be like. One will be a little like I would be if I were bold, brave and beautiful, not to mention clever, resourceful and funny, the other will be more difficult.
I've also got to decide what will be the first turning point and when it will happen, although I do have an as yet unformed idea. I need a name for the Island, too, but nothing too Tolkien or Dungeons and Dragons-ish
While I'm trying to tripe this, I'm also trying to listen to the repeat of a marvellous drama-doc that I heard this morning on BBC7 called Blue Veils and Golden Sands about Delia Derbyshire the famous woman from the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop who did the Doctor Who music. It's absolutely fascinating. I hope Charles is listening; I really want him to hear it, because this strange woman reminds me so much of him with her obsession with electronic music and sampling and remixing. It is on again at 2.15 am, so I hope he listens to one of the performances. It seems that she was patronised and rather badly treated by the BBC, but as I understand it, it wasn't unusual for that to happen to their creative staff.
In the end I had to stop writing and listen to the play again. Wonderful! Oh well! Back to theJazz! No way am I listening to Stephen Fry being arch and coy and terribly unfunny!
I suppose I shall have to do some vegetable shopping tomorrow, although we can't decide what to eat this week-end. I thought I'd make a quiche tomorrow but Charles really doesn't fancy it. It's useless asking John; he always says "Shepherd's Pie", when he really means Cottage pie.
Maybe we can have the liver tomorrow and Chicken Dish on Saturday. I shall definitely have to get some lovely fresh greens and I know we're out of carrots again. I keep thinking of plates full of lightly cooked purple sprouting dripping with butter!
Charles has just been in to tell me that he listened to the Delia Derbyshire programme and enjoyed it. We talked about the way she was treated at the BBC and how sad it was that she had to wait for recognition till she was on the point of death. Still, I suppose she did at least get it before she died. I hadn't realised how influential she was on modern music until I heard the programme.
I think I shall go to bed shortly to listen to theJazz and read my new Tom Holt Barking. I shan't dare go to sleep until 1.00 am is safely past, just in case.
I've just realised that British Summer Time will be starting again at the end of the month. I haven't got used to GMT yet! I must try to get some early nights in before then to get ready, because I always find it tremendously destabilising. I can't be the only one, surely?
I just looked at the weather forecast and we have severe weather warnings for gales on Monday and Tuesday, although there's only a 20% chance that it will be bad this far North.
Hold on to your hats, all you chaps dahn Sarf!
I'm furious today!
I had a renewal form from the DVLA for Lucy's road fund licence tax, and it's gone up enormously. I now have to pay £180 as opposed to £115 payable by people whose cars are less than 1549 cc. That's an extra £75 which is grossly unfair when you consider that I probably only drive 3000 miles per year now, if not a lot less and that I only bought a larger car because of my difficulties with arthritis. I'm so angry I want to break something!
BARF TWO!
Last night I was terribly sick again at 1.00 am. It was exactly the same as last time. I went to the loo for a pee, and just as I was leaving the bathroom, I had this overwhelming sickness. Again, it was lucky I was already in the bathroom, because I really wouldn't have made it there from my bedroom.
I really didn't want to eat anything this morning, but I have to eat something because of taking my pills, so I had an apple. For lunch I had dry toast, but I still felt digestively uncertain enough not to dare to go to the Lit & Phil. By this evening, of course, I was back to normal, so we've had our usual Friday evening kebab. No doubt I shall find out at 1.00 am whether that was extremely foolish or not. I didn't want to disappoint John and Charles, though. I'm sitting here looking at an apple, wondering if I dare.........
I had planned to go to the Lit & Phil this afternoon, but in the end I didn't dare!
Still, I had a pleasant enough afternoon at home, doing some character plotting for my new project. I'm amazed at how long it's taken, although I have done it in quite a lot of detail. I really enjoyed doing it too, so even if, as usual, I end up boring myself rigid and eventually have to file it in the WPB, I will at least have enjoyed doing it this time. However, this time I wrote a Prologue and am still fairly pleased with it, although it will probably have to be edited quite severely.
Whenever I've tried to write a long piece before, I've always worked out the plot beforehand and then written until it made me so bored I could scream. If it bores me, how boring must it be for a reader? This time I decided to leap in with a place and a vague idea, without a worked-out plot but with a cast of characters. It was quite fun looking up suitable names on Scroogle. I based the characters on a group of people I used to know quite well. I haven't plotted the two main characters yet but I have them in my mind's eye and I really already know what they're going to be like. One will be a little like I would be if I were bold, brave and beautiful, not to mention clever, resourceful and funny, the other will be more difficult.
I've also got to decide what will be the first turning point and when it will happen, although I do have an as yet unformed idea. I need a name for the Island, too, but nothing too Tolkien or Dungeons and Dragons-ish
While I'm trying to tripe this, I'm also trying to listen to the repeat of a marvellous drama-doc that I heard this morning on BBC7 called Blue Veils and Golden Sands about Delia Derbyshire the famous woman from the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop who did the Doctor Who music. It's absolutely fascinating. I hope Charles is listening; I really want him to hear it, because this strange woman reminds me so much of him with her obsession with electronic music and sampling and remixing. It is on again at 2.15 am, so I hope he listens to one of the performances. It seems that she was patronised and rather badly treated by the BBC, but as I understand it, it wasn't unusual for that to happen to their creative staff.
In the end I had to stop writing and listen to the play again. Wonderful! Oh well! Back to theJazz! No way am I listening to Stephen Fry being arch and coy and terribly unfunny!
I suppose I shall have to do some vegetable shopping tomorrow, although we can't decide what to eat this week-end. I thought I'd make a quiche tomorrow but Charles really doesn't fancy it. It's useless asking John; he always says "Shepherd's Pie", when he really means Cottage pie.
Maybe we can have the liver tomorrow and Chicken Dish on Saturday. I shall definitely have to get some lovely fresh greens and I know we're out of carrots again. I keep thinking of plates full of lightly cooked purple sprouting dripping with butter!
Charles has just been in to tell me that he listened to the Delia Derbyshire programme and enjoyed it. We talked about the way she was treated at the BBC and how sad it was that she had to wait for recognition till she was on the point of death. Still, I suppose she did at least get it before she died. I hadn't realised how influential she was on modern music until I heard the programme.
I think I shall go to bed shortly to listen to theJazz and read my new Tom Holt Barking. I shan't dare go to sleep until 1.00 am is safely past, just in case.
I've just realised that British Summer Time will be starting again at the end of the month. I haven't got used to GMT yet! I must try to get some early nights in before then to get ready, because I always find it tremendously destabilising. I can't be the only one, surely?
I just looked at the weather forecast and we have severe weather warnings for gales on Monday and Tuesday, although there's only a 20% chance that it will be bad this far North.
Hold on to your hats, all you chaps dahn Sarf!