By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Uncategorized on April 14, 2009 at 9:43 am
Stevie Nicks, American rock singer with the popular, mid-Atlantic, beat-combo Fleetwood Mac and almost heard in the theme music for BBC’s Formula One coverage, told a US journalist of her experiment with Botox here. She had tried to reverse the ravages of time without resorting to surgery but after four months realised it was futile and accepted life for what it is.
Back in the 1970s most young men would have given anything to be stuck on a desert island with Stevie Nicks, taking Joanna Lumley and Felicity Kendal along for the ride, as the saying goes. Today the same men, now matured almost to the point of going rotten, still harbour the dream. Perhaps not on a desert island but in their Mustique villa instead, so proving it is sometimes possible to turn the clock back, although Stevie, Joanna and Felicity would probably think it more a nightmare.
Turning the clock back is exactly what is happening here. After months of barren ground, the green shoots have started popping up. The telephone is ringing again and new work is appearing. In the space of a week we were offered four new projects and a full time/part time job with one of our old employers. That will be with the county council, driving the best part of 100 miles each day just to get to the job but their gold plated pension scheme is awfully attractive.
All of the work has been generated via the Internet, by pushing our names around and following our daughter’s advice to place c.v.s onto Monster and other job search sites. One project sounds exactly the sort of thing for us, an English publishing group is moving into on-line publishing in the same way as Dennis Publishing (purveyors of this fine e-zine) and others have done. They want us to be part of this push especially as we have the experience of traditional and electronic publishing already.
Better still, it won’t be about computers which let’s face it, can be awfully boring at times. Usually 10 minutes before the deadline when the Internet goes down, your hard disk throws a wobbly and the printer runs out of ink.
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