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Get up offa that thing!
Here we are in October, with the leaves falling and the sun shining in between all the rain. Back in the heady days of August I said “au revoir” to my Spoon-by-Spoon blog and I gave you good people a break from my incessant scribblings. But as we know, au revoir isn’t goodbye, it’s simply “until I see you again.”
The legendary James Brown puts it better than me:
“Say it now!
I’m back!
I’m back!
I’m back!
I’m back!
Get up offa that thing
And dance ’till you feel better.
Get up offa that thing,
and dance ’till you, sing it now!”
Quite a few people said I should write it all up into a book. I duly slogged over the 72 hours of transcripts and did a PhD length Thematic Analysis (academic speak for working out the main topics). I started to write, spelling out this theme and that theme, but quickly fell into a stupor over the dullness of my writing and gave up at chapter three. I decided to write a blog instead and 70,000 words and 18 months later said goodbye to you all in August.
I loved writing the blog and lots of you said lovely things about reading it too. But what about that book — it wasn’t a…
