Blogging is a Little Like Playing Chopped

Blogging is a little like that television/Netflix program: Chopped?

Did you every see Chopped? A bunch of chefs would line up and they each had a basket with weird ingredients in it and then, with the clock ticking and random badly behaved judges, (there purely for their entertainment value), the poor cooks had to make a meal from the mystery ingredients.

Those poor people took it all SO seriously!

It was on years ago and I remember watching it while visiting in California.

I was thinking that it emulated every night in my house where I pulled open the fridge door, walked into the gardens, dug about in the freezer and turned whatever I found into a meal. Applause!!

Anyway – blogging is a bit like chopped. Sometimes (actually often but don’t tell) I wake up to begin my post with not one single useful thought in my head.

Then I open my basket of mystery images. And I look at the photos and they become the ingredients for a great blog post.

FarmYard

The weather is taking a nosedive – we are literally at the high for the day and it is 6.30 in the morning.

It’s all downhill from here. So no more wallows for a few days. We do not want chilly hogs.

Hmm

And it is Sunday.

What do you think Wai?

Bed. Wai says, Back to bed! Breakfast then Bed with a good book, he says. OR, he lifts his head and looks in my direction; Bed and WRITE a good book. How about that, he says dropping his heavy head again and wandering off.

That pig.

Writing on SubStack

I am going to tell you very quietly – I have begun to write my stories on SubStack. This Monday will be my first real story. Every Monday will be a new piece of writing. This is brand new virgin territory for me. I am not even sure I have set it all up correctly but you know how I am!

My first series is Letters to My Mother. this link will hopefully take you to SubStack. (I always write better when I am writing TO someone which is why I love TKG because I am writing to YOU. So the first Act will be written to my mother who missed out on most of my life – she died young – poor lovey).

It will be chronological starting right at the beginning with The Beach stories, (otherwise know as The Early Years – snort). The chronological bit will be the hardest actually – we do not remember stuff in that kind of order.

It is a lovely rainy day today – perfect for writing Chapter ONE.

I will be writing stuff like this:

A Story.

This is a good way to corral all the stories into a series of documents – just in case a big shot publisher rides in on her dark horse and offers to publish me!

Which one of the TKG stories was your favorite so far? (TKG means The Kitchens Garden you will remember – my fingers get tired). Finding the stories I have written for you, here on TKG will be a mission in itself!

There is an option on SubStack for people to pay a subscription of $5 a month to read the stories and listen to the podcasts (soon). (Plus the Free option – not everyone has money to throw around you know).

I will leave a link here every Tuesday morning too.

Charlotte Rains Dixon writes on SubStack too – in fact it was her that introduced me to the platform. Do any of you write there?

Weather

Sometimes the High is the temperature that I watch sometimes it is the LOW.

Today is the Low. Tonight is going down to freezing so all the tomatoes and little seedlings have been brought back inside.

At lest they are all watered with the rain overnight.

Have a great day

Celi

PS It is Raining! Oops – no – false alarm.