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[desperance]

A brief list - of varying significance, and in no particular order - of things that Chaz likes:

leaving the back door open all day, so that Barry and I can come and go independently;

reliably writing two thousand words a day, every day;

finding that Barry asserts his independence for, oh, ten minutes at a time, then comes to check up on me;

catching up with an old friend who flies in from Berlin after seventeen years;

watching Barry watch nature programmes on the telly (ooh! birdies! kill!);

being given chilli plants unexpectedly, in this year of crisis;

scoring my first professional science fiction sale (of which more later), which gives me the full hand of SF/F/H, at least in short stories (so now I just have to write the SF novel)(and sell it);

repotting chillies and mints into my own fabulous compost.


A mercifully briefer - but probably more significant - list of things that Chaz does not like:

finding greenfly even on the new chillies, even after just one day (anyone know a charm against aphids? I've tried everything else...);

the ineluctable loom of impending financial catastrophe, which current busyness is too late to forestall (indeed, I have a theory that current busyness is actually just displacement, to stop me thinking about the real world too much);

the fact that the last five days of current busyness have been spent not on the novel, but on a short story that I'm not even getting paid for, that is currently a baggy, sloppy, shapeless mass of undifferentiated text, which it will take another couple of days that I can't afford to salvage into anything remotely resembling what I need, assuming that it's not beyond saving altogether. Bleah.

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[readwrite.livejournal.com]

anyone know a charm against aphids? I've tried everything else...

...including ladybugs? I think some greenhouses will sell them to you. Both the larvae and the adults eat aphids.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Seasonally, Diamond Twig Poem of the Month is Getting Rid of the Aphids...