Billy Young's Blog - Posts Tagged "clocks"
26th October 2012
It’s Halloween in Killie tonight. I know everywhere else celebrate it next week but here it has always been on the last Friday of October. Why? Well what I was told by a teacher many years ago was that it was to do with Kilmarnock being a mill town. Friday was pay day and because of this it was the only day when it made sense to hold the celebration as the kids would be sure dad had money. I don’t know if this explanation is true but it does sort of make sense. Of course I don’t really hold it these days as my two children are to old. Though my wife and daughter have fallen in to the custom over the past few years of watching horror movies. Me, well I hide up at the computer as I’m not as big a fan as I used to in younger years.
Even though we don’t officially hold Halloween Magz and Tammy do hollow out the pumpkin to make a face. While they watch their film of choice for this year they will light a candle, put it into the pumpkin and turn of the lights. This leaves me unable to see my keyboard so no working on any poems or writing in general. So I will be gaming tonight which could mean a late one for me. Luckily the clocks go back this weekend so I will have the chance to catch up on lost winks.
Talking of poems I’m still looking at that poem I mentioned last week. I’m still not happy with it. I might try to reconstruct it from the start, meaning keep what I have and use it to write another. Doing this I can use what lines I like, providing that they fit easily into the new poem, while scrapping what doesn’t work for me. I don’t often do this but it has worked in the past though not always. If it doesn’t work I will sit it to the side and come back to it at a later date.
Even though we don’t officially hold Halloween Magz and Tammy do hollow out the pumpkin to make a face. While they watch their film of choice for this year they will light a candle, put it into the pumpkin and turn of the lights. This leaves me unable to see my keyboard so no working on any poems or writing in general. So I will be gaming tonight which could mean a late one for me. Luckily the clocks go back this weekend so I will have the chance to catch up on lost winks.
Talking of poems I’m still looking at that poem I mentioned last week. I’m still not happy with it. I might try to reconstruct it from the start, meaning keep what I have and use it to write another. Doing this I can use what lines I like, providing that they fit easily into the new poem, while scrapping what doesn’t work for me. I don’t often do this but it has worked in the past though not always. If it doesn’t work I will sit it to the side and come back to it at a later date.
