Swan-song from John

Authors: John Purey-Cust
Publication: New Zealand Journal of Forestry, Volume N.Z.J.For. 2009, Issue N.Z.J.For. 54(4) 2010, pp 48, Jan 2010
Publisher: New Zealand Institute of Forestry

Abstract: Christmas time and writer’s block, but not entirely. The weather is foul, when it isn’t raining its blowing a gale, the hail took all the leaves off my strawberry plants and the north-west wind burnt the spuds worse than the unexpected frost a month earlier. Plenty of time to write something with nothing else to do, but it doesn’t seem to work like that - too many jobs undone to worry about and the stream of consciousness remains a muddy trickle like an unfenced creek on a dairy farm. A fine sunny day is best for writing, and we just haven’t had many so far, and that, Mr Editor, is my excuse.
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