So I been desperately trying to think what I might put in this week’s blog.

A shot of me looking far too excited beside our most recent bunch of bananas?

Nah. I’ve done that before.

A compilation of shots of the wildlife I’ve come across on my most recent walks around the neighbourhood?

Possibly. But that would only serve to remind me that the one time I forgot my phone while I was out walking (THE ONE TIME!) was the day I saw a KOALA.

In the end I decided to look for inspiration for this blog by glancing over the blogs I’d written ten years ago. (We are encouraged to recycle, right?)

Anyway I found this piece about something I’d written in a diary way back in 1999 – the year before I resigned from my teaching job to try to write my first novel.

What I’d written was this small poem:

The Words

I will lay them down like jewels
Like sleeping children
Like gold foil – delicate and fragile.
I will place them gently
And they will be rich
and wonderful
and glow like the moon.

Jeez, nothing like setting your writing sights impossibly high.

Needless to say, I’m still trying.

Cheers
Michael