Good Morning

Wednesday Wanderings

A very productive day. I completed a couple of tile shops, one in Ashford and the other in Canterbury. I finished by one during the day. I arrived back in Faversham at just after two. I popped into my local for a nice jalfrezi curry before going home.

Right now, I am having a coffee and listening to some of the more sublime music of Scriabin.

Do you have a plan?

If LiveJournal can not be accessed after March 11 because Russia is going to cut itself off from the global Internet (LJ is owned by a Russiaa company, if you did not know) do you have plans to post somewhere else?

A lot of people are moving do Dreamwidth, which is similar to LJ because it was developed by former LJ employees.
If you do go to DW, here are a couple of LJ posts by users to Help;

Backing Up Your LJ Data
How to Sync Your LiveJournal to DW

If LJ does fold up, it was a good run. I've enjoyed being a member of this community. I wish I had discovered it sooner.

ETA: Open call to anyone still listening - archiving old LJ comms;

If you modded LiveJournal communities back in the day, please consider archiving them to Dreamwidth NOW. So much 2000s internet history lives there, and if LJ falls off the internet (as it very well might, depending on how things go in Russia in the near future), links will break and vast amounts of it will be lost. Wayback Machine only captures public posts; a Dreamwidth import can pull in locked posts and comments, and allow people to view them by joining the comm.

Follow the link for additional help and suggestions.

Damn Putin

So, I am in the process of backing up or transferring most of my blog to DW. I prefer LJ but just in case everything goes apeshit on Friday, well I will be prepared.

So we shall see.

I Did Not Know They Were That Old

Book 15 - Philip Larkin "The Whitsun Weddings"

Philip Larkin "The Whitsun Weddings" (Faber & Faber)





These poems have a very down-to-earth and modest clarity, in the way they describe such ordinary events and lives with beauty and sympathy. Larkin's observations make the ordinary seem extraordinary. The poem 'The Whitsun Weddings' describes a train journey from Hull to London, on a hot Saturday, where at each passing station, newlyweds are boarding the train and the wedding parties waving them off. It describes the common, ordinary details of weddings: the emotion, the gaudy outfits, the embarrassing family, but also the strangely epic nature of marriage and the course it sets people on together: 'this frail/ Travelling coincidence; and what it held/ Stood ready to be loosed with all the power/ That being changed can give.'


Personally, I would recommend this book to others who enjoy reading for reflections of life, or if you are intrigued to learn more about the poet, Larkin.
There are many sites that allow you to access his poetry for a taster and I highly recommend Arundel Tomb, Afternoons, The Whitsun Weddings, Love songs In Age, and Mr. Bleaney.
Thanks

Style

I think I will stick to this style which is called Sun Goes Down. It has a nice feel to it. I still prefer my old LJ one but then the media or music ones do not seem to be available here alas.

Oh well, c'est la vie.