{"id":1590,"date":"2007-03-31T09:08:13","date_gmt":"2007-03-31T09:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.john-howe.com\/blog\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2020-09-25T08:39:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T07:39:46","slug":"out-about-in-middle-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.john-howe.com\/blog\/out-about-in-middle-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Out & About in Middle-Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

OUT & ABOUT IN MIDDLE-EARTH<\/h2>\n

Or Any Excuse is a Good Excuse<\/p>\n

This year is homeboy year – I\u2019m writing this because I know my agent, bless her, reads my newsletters just in case there are signs of undue dilettantism and unreasonable sloth – as I have a good deal of work to be done over a long period and must get cracking on it.<\/p>\n

However, sallying forth from hearth and home is possible occasionally, but I must have a good excuse. Grocery shopping is valid, but not very satisfying culturally or particularly exotic; exhibitions are better.<\/p>\n

The next one will be in France, near Lyon, at the mediatheque of Bourgoin-Jallieu.
\nAll the dates are on the lovely brochure they have done for the show.<\/p>\n

For more information:
\nM\u00e9diath\u00e8que de Bourgoin-Jallieu
\n10, place Jean-Jacques Rousseau
\n38300 BOURGOIN-JALLIEU
\nPhone: +33 (0)4 74 43 81 67
\nor write to: accueil-mediatheque-bourgoin-jallieu@wanadoo.fr<\/a><\/p>\n

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CATCHING UP<\/strong><\/p>\n

Am currently conducting an all-out siege on the stack of mail that I have let pile up for literally ages. This means a number of former students will receive totally useless questionnaires for school reports, dutifully filled out, but 18 months late and replies to urgent questions coming long after they\u2019ve become irrelevant. Also to be anticipated, a slew of letters with return-to-sender stamped on them, as people will have had time to move twice since they wrote.
\nAll this to stop my conscience from nagging so peristently. (It\u2019s true that exhaustion and resignation were setting in, and one\u2019s conscience deserves better tretment, you never know when it may come in handy.)
\nI am now on a rhythm of half a dozen replies per day, and should be done inside of a month or so.
\nI\u2019ll do my best not to let it happen again – a promise I make with startling regularly every couple of years\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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