Pass the Sunglasses

The sun beats down without recourse to the needs of the general population, as the weather has become decidedly clement. It's a nice change from all that rain we've had recently. Taking advantage of the need, I went into Oxford and bought some new sunglasses, which I will require for when I go on my planned excursion to the great German city of Berlin next week. The pair I bought in Debenhams were relatively cheap and non-designer (seriously, over £100 for a pair of glasses? I'm only willing to pay that for glasses that will last for years and years), but have the exact appearance of a pair of Ray-Ban New Wayfarers (a style similar to the sunglasses Audrey Hepburn wore in "Breakfast at Tiffany's"). So I am pretty happy with them style-wise, and since they aren't the real deal as it were, it didn't cost me a bomb to get them. Just a shame that at the moment there seem to be relatively few opportunities to actually put on sunglasses because previously our general climate hasn't been, shall we say, Summery. Interesting that sunglasses really have only developed since the beginning of the 19th Century, but didn't become popular until the 20th. I expect that prior to that people simply didn't spend so much time in direct sunlight (come on that's patent nonsense: What about all those people working in the fields every day? If anything they spent more time in the Sun).

And now, a quote from Paul Rudnick about writing: " Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write." Can I put that percentage up to 95%? Seriously I don't understand why I have found it so difficult to write anything recently. I used to be able to write quite a bit every week, but now it's good if I can manage even a single post, article or entry. So consider this my admission that I need to act to improve the volume and quality of what I write. It might take some time, but if you work at anything hard enough, you raise the chances significantly of being able to succeed. There's some liberating advice for you.