‘Blog 300 …’ by Ms Paige Turner
I had my brows dyed this afternoon. The lovely beauty therapist said that when she was training she was told that one isn’t a Mistress of Brows until one has completed 150 treatments.
Malcolm Gladwell who is very hot on numbers says one cannot be a master of any skill until one has practised 10,000 times.
This is my 300 bi-monthly blog. That means I have been posting for 600 weeks which is roughly 12 years – since 2010. Where do the years and blogs go to? Maybe I have a long way to go until 10,000 – but to coin a phrase (which is a cliché in itself) ‘practice makes perfect’. With a ‘c’ for the noun, I believe.
Thank you dearly my three blog readers – to whom I am not related. If you are reading this, please leave a note to say I am not writing to Mars. Which might raise a few eyebrows.
My novel ‘Shakespeare’s Clock’ is available on Amazon, my publishers Cranthorpe Millner, Foyles and Waterstones.
https://www.waterstones.com/book/shakespeares-clock/jan-moran-neil/9781912964635
https://www.cranthorpemillner.com/product/jan-moran-neil-shakespeares-clock/
https://www.foyles.co.uk/witem/fiction-poetry/shakespeares-clock,jan-moran-neil-9781912964635
The pandemic anthology ‘When This is All Over …’ for the Rennie Grove Hospice Care is available on Amazon here. https://amzn.to/3xi8iay
My plays scripts are available from www.stagescripts.co.uk
You are not writing to Mars.You do not need your brows beautified.
Everyday is a mystery. Everyday reveals something new. Dyed eyebrows are raised. Blog 300 will give birth to blog 301. You’re closer by one to that 10,000th blog post and the bragging rights for perseverance, fortitude, and formidable creativity. A haiku has just arrived in my head.
The click of the clock
is the echo of tomorrow
eager to be heard
I love your blogs Jan
Lois x
Ah … you make my day, Lois.