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Day 21: a picture of something you wish you could forget

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This was hard because I’m not in favour of forgetting. Even moments of my life that have been sheer hell on earth have helped me to be better after.

I thought of those videos of yesterday’s tsunami … but no, that should never be forgotten for the same reason that schoolkids for the next 1000 years and beyond should be made to watch Schindler’s List.
And then I thought of … no, not the Chicken Song specifically, but every single irritating earworm that has ever got into my head and kept me awake until 4 in the morning. The kind of thing that the Chicken Song lampooned, in other words.

In the interests of full disclosure I should probably mention that I too bought a copy of this when it came out. Much funnier was the B-side, I’ve never met a nice South African.

Day 19: a picture and a letter

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I’m not quite sure what today’s challenge means so I’m reinterpreting it. Here is a picture of many letters, and they’re all rejections. After I graduated I knew I wanted a job in publishing … somehow, somewhere. And so I bought a copy of the Writer’s & Artist’s Yearbook and sprayed letters at every publisher I could find. For future inspiration and to give myself the occasional giggle, I kept the collection.

Some are actually typewritten, which is a real trip down memory lane.