Yes, it's been a while. Two months and eighteen days a while.
March was ... a bit low as a grey, damp cloud descended.
April was ... better.
May is ... much better. And everything is freshly, lushly green and full of promise, which helps.
Sometimes I'd come by to leave a comment on your blogs but the words would come out mangled so I'd creep away. Better to say nothing.
Anyway, I may or may not have received this missive.
Dear Lane'swrite Woman
You seem to have fallen off the blog. Could it be that you broke your writing as you fell? I have seen little evidence of words being written anywhere. And I don't mean the copious shopping lists or emails to your bestie. I mean words, sentences, paragraphs. A facebook comment with a smiley does not count. Nor does leaving feedback on Ebay.
I am quite frankly saddened, nay disappointed at your lack of words. If you carry on at this rate, you will be a wizen old woman, gazing at half finished manuscripts, eating peaches from a can and with the laughably titled 'lane'swrite' floating vacantly around the ether.
Use it or lose it.
Yours with the mildest of concern
Tellit Likeitis
Now you see, taken aback as I was to read this missive, Tellit is absolutely right. And his (or her) words have been heeded and notebooks have been dusted off. May is the month of new growth and I intend to grow some new words. And re-jiggle some old ones.
Thank you Tellit.
41 comments:
Yippee! Welcome back!!
By a strange coincidence I was just thinking of you this morning and wondering how you were/where you were. Good to see you back!
YIPEE! Hats off Tellit, I say :)))))
So glad to have you back in the land of the living m'dear. To tell the truth was a tad worried by your absence, was gonna send the trunacy officer around to have a quiet word with you ;-) But, I didn't want to intrude or prey.
Like you arty header BTW :-)
Oh, if lost for words again go buy yurself a decent dictionary ;-)
Yursef? (yourself) Sweet Jesus give me strength ;-)
Lovely to see you back, Lane!
Yay, welcome back to cyber world Lane. It's so good to have you back. x
Love the template. Do ask Peggy where she gets her perm done. I quite fancy a change.
Ms Tellit is being a little harsh. Don't give her my address will you.
Three cheers for Ms Tellit Likeitis - now berludy get on with it, will you?
Don those Writing Pants and get cracking - good to have you back.
Good to see you, Lane! :-)
Welcome back. And yey for all the words there will most certainly be!
lovely to see you. sometimes you juat have to go with the seasons.
Welcome back to the blogosphere. It's good to see that someone is now applying stickus pointius. I don't have much to say on my own blog these days, but I still enjoy reading and commenting on other people's.
Forgot to mention: I didn't realise until now that Lane'swrite was all one word.
Go tell it! Loook how many comments you get when you write a blog post my dear. All these people can't be wrong. Get writing, it's lovely!!!! and you are lovely xxx.
Pop over to mine, I have re-published an old chestnut about henna dying which you will laugh at and may even remember. That is, if your memory isn't as shot to hell as mine is, since becoming a mum lol.
Glad to see you're back. I'm not quite back yet - waiting for Thursday to pass.
Love the notebooks and the new header!
xx
Lane speaks! Hurrah! We missed you, love, and we were getting quite concerned.
The notebooks reminded me of that old Morecambe and Wise sketch where Eric mangles Tchaikovsky on the piano, in front of Andre Previn and defends himself by saying 'I'm playing the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.'
Don't go away again, now will you? :)
Words have to be in the right order? Nah, surely not. Haphazard is the new black. Isn't it? No? Oh. Bugger.
Re-jiggling, eh? Hope you're wearing a decent support bra for such a thing.
Nice to have you back. Blogland just isn't the same without a bit of Lane.
Queenie - thank you. Nice to be back:-)
Cathy - thanks Cathy. For the thought too:-)
TF - Ha - I've beaten the truancy officer! (But you know you never intrude)
Dictionaries are at the ready:-)
Nik - Thank you. Nice to be here.
Debs - thank you. I've missed it.
Fia - Peg would have you know that she's all natural although I'm not sure I believe her. I have my suspicions she treats Teas as her own personal beautician:-)
I will keep your address from Tellit ... until your hand is better:-)
Chris - Writing pants freshly laundered and ready to go ma'am. Honest:-)
Amanda - and nice to see you too. Thanks.
HelenH - I hope so m'dear. Thank you.
Sonia - so true. Light, long days make such a difference.
Captain - Thanks. I think Tellit is even scarier than the stick.
I think Lane'swrite has always been one word - though I could be wrong:-)
Hulla - thank you m'dear, that's so kind. I am going to hot foot it over to you. It's been too long!
Babaloo - good luck for Thursday. I know you're going to ace it. And afterwards you can celebrate:-)
Lorna F - I remember that sketch. So clever. Apparently it's harder to play music 'wrong' than it is correctly. Sadly the same can't be said for writing:-)
It's good to be back. And thanks.
Spiral - I thought I could just shake the notebooks and all the words would fall into order. sadly not so. Hard core jiggling is involved so industrial support is needed. Goes well with writing pants though:-)
(and thank you).
Rah! Rah! Rah! That's me cheering you on -- as have all these other people above me. Great to have you back.
See how well loved you are, Lane? Just one little post from you and all these reactions! People are loyal to you. Give them what they ask for. More words!
so good to have you back, Lane
tough times?
Very glad to have you back Lane, but it sounds like you've been having a rough time of things. I do hope that period is over and you can look forward to everything that the summer will bring. Including words. xxx
Lane, you are conspicuous by your absence (even though you continue to say nice things over at 'my place' for which I am eternally grateful) and I'm not sure how I'd take Ms Tellit's words if they'd been aimed at me. Maybe you're 'ready' for your big reveal and I need to hide a little longer? Lovely to see you. x
SueG - Thanks for the rahs. I hope they come with pom poms and a song:-)
Nora - thank you Nora.That's very kind of you to say so. More words it is then:-)
Felix - thank you. Not the best of times but better now.
Flowerpot - thanks fp. I'm looking forward to it very much, words, summer, the lot.
Debs R - You'll know when you're ready. I think good old Tellit only goes hammer and tongs at those who are ready to listen:-)
Bit by bit remember...
Happy growing. In the literary sense of course ;) Glad to see a post from you.
So lovely to see you here.
Hurrah, glad you're back! Bit scared of this tellit character, slightly nervous (given that picture) of your cat...
see how happy we all are you see you! we come roaring back at the slightest beckoning.
I'm new here but I look forward to reading more!
Hello old friend. I think you are a super writer, and I'm sure most writers have the urge to disappear and be quiet once in a while. That's all okay. Nice to see you back though!
WOOOT! You're back! Now get writing. We're waiting (tap, tap, tappity tap....).
8-)
Great to have you back :o)
Old Tellit Likeitis is a bit of a bossy britches, but speaks good sense.
May is a good month for dusting things off, and I don't mean spring-cleaning either. That can wait for another day (year.) xx
Wonderful to have you back!
Tellit is a genius, isn't she. (Or he.)
Hope life is going well for you and continues to do so. Looking forward to lots more words, m'dear!
Welcome back! Thought you'd gone for good (which was not good).
It's the first time I've visited your blog, but I'm glad I did. I especially liked your image of you as an old lady 'eating tinned peaches out of a can'. Oh, so true. Keep blogging.
DJ - thank you:-)
JJ - thank you too:-)
Denise - he does look quite austere in that photo. But then he is pack leader:-)
Laurie - I just hope it's worth 'roaring over here'.
Talli - hi there and thanks for dropping by.
Gone Back South - hello again. You're back at GBS? I will come and see:-)
Marcheline - well now you're tapping, I'd better get tapping too:-)
Karen - it's too late for spring cleaning anyway. It's supposed to be in April so if you miss it, bad luck. That's the law:-)
Shirley - Tellit speaks sense doesn't he/she. Tends to go on a bit though:-)
Troy - I'd thought so too at one point. But then there was the lure ...:-)
Fran - hi and welcome. It's a scary image isn't it. And I can see it all too clearly ... which is good for motivation I suppose:-)
Hi Lane
Thanks for dropping by to say hi to me, I've only just found your message. Been having hard times, hence the silence, but miraculously not smoking still! Glad you are blogging again, we all love your voice.
x
The sun coming out in May makes all the difference! :)
Now We Are Seven - so sorry to hear that (bad times) but brill, brill brill that you're still not smoking! Well done you.
Casdok - So it does casdok. It really does:-)
I understand the not posting bit - sometimes it is just too hard and takes too much time. However I have to agree - it's about time dear girl.
Standing at the sink eating canned peaches in three day old pants, no doubt? I know what you mean about blog freeze up, Lane. If I don't post in a while it becomes such a big deal. All through May I've gone back to Julia Cameron's Morning Pages--three handwritten pages of whatever drivel. Really helps with the other writing.
Glad the Girlz are back! We all missed you.
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