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.
Reminds me of a Star Trek Enterprise episode where they encounter a lost colony from Earth. There was an event on the planet that killed off all the adults and the children went underground. By the time the Enterprise found them, the children were old. One woman named Nadet was found to be actually be Bernadette - a sweet little girl in an old photo. Over the years they had forgotten some words and made up others. Maybe it was Townsend's less sophisticated neighbors who just misunderstood his name?
Tomorrow is the big day when I go in for the next part of the procedure (they don't call it an operation) begun two weeks ago. As a consequence, I may not be around in the morning. Such is life and the open endedness of things.
In the meantime, reflect on this: two weeks in the USA is a fortnight in Britain. And the fortnight refers to the fact that it's fourteen nights. Sorta medieval contraction.
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