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I was trying to get to sleep last night but I kept getting these lines running through my head. So I got up and wrote them down and went back to bed and finally got some sleep :)

a being
curled in me
of me
but
not me
this child feeds
from me
fed from
within

Random.

Oh the garden is just so much better now I have done some work in it! The dogs are finally manageable. I built four hinged fences (two panels, hinged together, so they can be opened into a self-supporting V shape) and used them to construct a chute from the laundry to the dog run. The dogs are now fed in the dog run, and it has a big kennel with snuggly blankets in it, so they are not too bothered about spending some time there each day. And having them run in through the laundry means the mud goes there, not on the kitchen and living room floors and counches :) Soooooo convenient.

Hey, is the Segway the name of the advanced, expensive upright two-wheeled scooter/transporter thing? I wanted to write something about it the other day and then couldn't remember the name. Anyone know?

I am having another crack at that novel I keep trying to write. I got 25,000 words into my previous one about 4 years ago and then gve it up because I didn't know what happened next :) It was not as bad as I remembered it, I reread it a couple of weeks ago and it was actually reasonably readable, if not exactly a stunning work of SF... funny in places, although probably that's only because my sense of humour hasn't changed in the last four years.

This time the book is shorter, deliberately plot-less, post-modern/post-post-modern/chick lit/meandering/narcissistic and quite fun to write :) Which is really the main thing, because let's face it, I'm writing for a captive audience of one, so I might as well enjoy both ends of the task!