Mothballing

Journal

2022


I

As the website rapidly changes, I concentrate on poetry, creative writing and digital art.

The dispatches have been a central element, now contained in 12 volumes. In preparing to open volume 13 to commence in January, I admit that the prospect of writing dispatches took on an irksome, tiresome aspect. I am not a journalist. What am I achieving?

That question has therefore enabled me to mothball Volumes 1-11. If perchance a visitor has bookmarked a particular dispatch as a convenient entry point, access to that article remains live. The dispatches now run from 1 January 2022. Why? Because I want to maintain the Ukraine Dispatches. The War in Ukraine is a long war, and the Ukrainian People need our full support. They are doing alone what the British People and its Commonwealth did in 1939-1941.

The other dispatches have had their day.

I will, though, occasionally write a dispatch in 2023 and also schedule a dispatch from the past to go live for 7 days, then be mothballed again. Scheduling will usually follow the anniversary principle. For example, dispatches covering the wars in Syria and Afghanistan would appear, say, in regard to Houla and Aleppo, and the fall of Kabul respectively.

 II

Creative writing is my forte, hence Novels being the primary website aim.

I enjoy writing poetry; this is my hobby, just as my family love messing around with classic cars. I, too, love classic cars. But classic cars don’t necessarily love me. Oh my god, it’s him again! Quick. Make a getaway!!

Hence my poetry not being popular. It’s too long. It waffles on. Too much is metaphysical… and so on. All I can say is well then you’re daft wasting your time reading it. Do something better with your time.

III

That doesn’t mean I don’t get chased to publish. But here’s the rub. Being chased by American self-publishing firms means me spending money up front for no returns, but very nicely lining the pockets of desperate self-publishing agency “bods”. I use that term deliberately. Yes. A bunch of desperados.

I also want to clear the decks so that my visits to Koblenz in 2023 and Denmark in 2024 are not impeded. These visits are vitally important for me.

3 December 2022
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The image, entitled Nature’s Delicacy and Strength is that which greeted me yesterday morning when I took my first coffee of the day in the garden.
I do this in all weathers. It thereby sets my day’s compass and course. As I stepped through the french doors, the watering can’s residents had, overnight, formed
a beautiful web. Seemingly fragile, Nature proves only too quickly, the web’s strength in holding the water.