Kitten Cam! (by sarah)

There is not only a blog but now a Kitten Cam with live feed of the cute little furies! Alaric has already had to cut the home LAN in order to get me to stop watching them!

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/KittensGalore

Twitter Poetry (by sarah)

I have found a home for all those tacky rhymes I came up with about everyday stuff - and that is twitter. I started typing the poems into tweets and found that there is actually a communitee of poeple tweeting poetry which is interesting - Ella who has just joined pointed out that it was something that occured to her straight away although she was thinking hikus not the tacky dross I produce.

Mainly they are the sort of thing I make up to entertain Jean but I am chuffed that one of them has been pilfered (with credit mind!) onto my friends blog - I just couldn't resist making something up about the cat who had too many kittens (and yes I am going to keep on about baby animals - between pregnant cats and guinea pigs and people I seem to be surrounded by an over load of cuteness at the mo!).

Poetry is the one thing that I have had published multiple times - I think actual anthologies/peotry collections that have a poem (one has two in) from me is now at 4 and then a couple in newspapers (nationals 🙂 ). I haven't actually sent any poetry off for a long time last attempt was Myslexia which was a no go though I got a lovely letter from them.

I have been submitting short stories but have found this a bit of a struggle as the stories want to expand them selves into novals and this has obviously been evident in that the responses I've been getting are 'we loved the imagery and the characters but it needed to be a longer story it read in places like a summary' etc...

I'm taking the fact that people are responding positively about the writing even thought it is ultimatly a regection as a good thing?

Poetry quiet frankly doesn't pay enough for me to pay out the postage costs and the like. I have been unable to go to many poetry readings since christmas becuase of my course and stuff but found that was far more rewarding - plus I was reading it out so didn't have to worry about the spellings and gramma - I know what its supposed to sound like so that is how I read it.

Most of my poetry is also niche - it is sciencetific/technical so arty peeps tend to not understand what the poem is actually about and the science peeps go - why are you writing the concept in an unclear way? Sigh.

Short stories just quiet frankly don't want to be short - I am thinking that I need to face the fact that I am a novel writer. This is a bit depressing as when I was writing the Drs Wife I was obsessed with it and could not leave it alone - I have perposly not started another noval becuase of this - for a start I have seen 0 back for the invested time - I hope purely becuase I wrote the whole thing in long hand and have only typed up the first 30, 000 words! That was all pre-flood and I haven't typed up a single word of it since which is disgraceful - its a short novel at 85,000 words approximatly - obviously this is a guestimate I have avearged words on lines etc... I did this for all the different note books its in and there are alot of them :/

But why am I writing about writing again? I am concidering my future yet again - if I am just stressed out then I need to think about academia seriously thats if I can go back after ending up in hosptial a second time on them :(. The same goes for business plans - stomach ulcers and IBS are both apparently acted up by stress so I need to actually look at my life and not fall apart.

I want to achive something with my life but writing is a gamble - especially as I can not spell for toffee and I do try (well most of the time my blog posts on here are a bit erm... I just want to write what I'm thinking and send it live and so is often not spell checked). The spelling is my bottle neck - I have missed submission deadlines waiting for people to spell check things for me which is frustrating and not their fualt they are busy people and there's no way I can pay for proper proof reading at least on shorts.

This has turned into a bit of a ramble hasn't it?

Kittens!!!! Galore!!!! (by sarah)

Our friends cat Sookie has given birth to 8 kittens - 8 for a first litter - that is a lot! and they have started up a blog about them with cute pics and things 🙂

I've also added it as Kittens Galore! to the Friends Blogroll down the side of the page.

🙂

Alaric says we have too many cats even if they are cute and very small little baby cats 🙁 Plus they live far away from us and Minni struggeled with the journey from London too here and we had to stop at the services for her to have a stretch out of the box (this was had to be done very carefully to make sure she didn't run away).

Jeany Buscuits (by sarah)

There are cute pictures of Jean decorating Easter Egg shaped ginger biscuits over on the Salaric Cooking Blog 🙂 I have only just gotten around to putting the post live - doh!

Guinea Pigs! (by sarah)

Yes I'm still going on about our visit to Yorkshire!

Ulrike has four guinea pigs and they are so cute - they make little fepping noises that sound like an underwater bubble 🙂

Jean loves them as at her pre-school they have guinea pigs and rabbits!

I took and had taken lots of pics of the piggies! But somehow only managed to capture two of them! They have a fantastic cage set-up too that I ment to photo but somehow didn't :/

This one I rotated the wronge way!

I can only remember two of their names - Trillion and Milka! Ulrike did tell us lots of things about them such as they have bauld spots behind their ears and naming of types due to colouration but I unfortunatly can't remeber much of it.

When energy levels are better and we have the ducks - I think we might get some guinea pigs but not right now - I have enough trouble remembering to feed the puss-mogs!

Alaric got a bit annoyed at how long we took to leave becuase of the guinea pigs - I didn't know weather to be sympathetic or laugh when he got narky about it :/