Thursday, November 24, 2022

It lives!

I've had a bit of writer's block lately.


Last weekend I caught a cold and got hardly any sleep that night so I had to miss the singing group on Sunday.


There's something wrong with the handle on the front door so you can't open it even when it's unlocked! (I've been leaving it ajar when I go out.) We're getting a new handle next week.


I'm now reading Singapore:  A Biography for next month's History Meetup. (Is that place the future?) I've just got to the part about the Japanese conquest in World War II...


I've finished my Chinese dictionary summary.  Now I've started translating a 1950s anti-communist Chinese novel titled Wandering Youth. (I translated the first section some years ago.)


I've had some vivid dreams lately.  The other night I dreamed about The Golden Treasury of Knowledge, a children's encyclopedia set we had when I was young, and finding some of its volumes mixed with volumes of a new edition with different covers.  I also dreamed about having a house with a lawn growing on the roof, including a gravestone(!). Last night I dreamed of being in a studio audience watching the taping of an episode of the British soap opera Coronation Street.