Joan Lennon's Blog
Saturday, August 06, 2022
Saturday, July 30, 2022
Lisa Evans on That Thing
Have a listen to Lisa Evans' take on surviving rejection and why it's a good idea we don't own copyright on our children, over on the RLF's Vox series.
Saturday, July 23, 2022
Sunday, July 17, 2022
Saturday, July 09, 2022
Grade That Wind
Next Tuesday I'm hoping to catch a plane from Tingwall Airport to Fair Isle. It's not a long trip - only about 25 minutes - but it is VERY, VERY weather dependent and I've been obsessively checking the forecast. My Shetland friends tell me to stop - 'It'll just change anyway,' they say. Wise words. Good advice. Impossible to follow.
But I have learned at least some of my wind gradations (these are from the Beaufort Scale developed in 1805 by Sir Francis Beaufort for the Royal Navy and still used today):
Light
Gentle
Moderate
Fresh
Strong
And after that I just don't want to know.
Sunday, July 03, 2022
Is it a dance? Is it a poem? No, it's non-fiction!
This week I'm over on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure wondering if writing non-fiction is more of a poem or more of a dance?