Day 10 – Wallflowers

I am now seriously, seriously pissed off.

While out in the garden weeding, I had an idea for a poem for today which I typed into the laptop so I wouldn’t forget it, then emailed to myself so I could access it from the PC.

When I came to upload it a couple of hours later, the attachment opened in Google docs and I looked at it and thought it was pretty pathetic. Then I had a brainwave of how to change the third line to make it a bit better, but when I tried to edit it, I fell foul of the same problem I described in my post this morning. Then by the time I had opened it in Open Office I had forgotten what I was going to do to improve it.

So, I decided I would just post the original version, and explain all this, which I duly did, typed directly into WordPress rather than in Word (which is what I usually do).

Copied the ‘poem’ into the post, formatted it as a poem (which didn’t go too well), looked at the preview, chose the categories, pressed the publish button, then changed my mind about something (now I can’t remember what). Tried to get out of the ‘publish’ menu, but when I tried to press the ‘x’ to close it and get back to preview, for some reason it kept flashing to another menu. (I think that the curser had got too close to the top right hand corner of the window and it was trying to open the Profile editing window, but there seemed no way I could close the other one if you see what I mean).

I tried to go back a screen, assuming that the post had automatically been saved as a draft (I’m sure that’s what usually happens), but apparently not, and I’ve just had to explain all this all over again.

And I nearly published this without copying the poem in again.

Wallflowers,
with their fiery colours
bringing the power of summer
into a sad and fearful spring.

Linda Rushby 10 April 2020