Today, wondering how I would could show you the wind, I was I’m pleased to see my neighbour has attached a wind sock to the speed restriction sign, drawing attention to her advertising signs on the fence.

Mrs W. next door, has a giftware business she runs from one of the local service stations. She has a website and does home delivery. The wind sock and flags are to attract attention to her banners hanging on her front fence.

(Originally sent from my phone. Edited later. I had to turn the photo around and I set it as the featured image. Edited and added text.)

This photo is from my archive of photos. I dug it out for the ‘straight lines’ challenge but didn’t use it. Weather is nasty and wet today, and worse expected tomorrow.

Sunset

I’m embarrassed to report my dismal performance in the Effective Writing Course at Coursera (still in the Grading stage) I know I have failed because I let other things distract me, and I was lazy. I’m owning up here, though no doubt I will have to report it on my online learning blog, too.

Since the course went for five weeks, I thought the ‘big paragraph’ would be due in Week 5, not week 4. Wrong! Also, somehow, I managed to forget I had submitted an assignment for week 3, so didn’t front up to do the required peer assessments, thus losing points. I missed the deadline for completing Quiz 5 by a day.

Yeah, failed and embarrassed. It’s worth repeating.

The writing course repeats in September and I’ll do it again. I kept at the quiz 4 questions until I got a perfect score, despite it not being worth a single point towards my grade. It’s learning. I have a big problem with recognising sentence structure. Yeah, some of you are probably chuckling; you know I have a big problem.

I begin another course tomorrow. It goes for 4 weeks, and requires about 3-4 hours a week. I’m telling myself there is no point signing up for these things unless I intend to make an effort.

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This course might do the trick for the old brain. I am still participating in the “England in the time of King Richard III” over at FutureLearn, and loving it. I’m even up to the right week.   I trimmed away some of the courses I had booked at FutureLearn, but added a fiction writing course starting there on 27 th October. It sounds interesting, and goes for 8 weeks, at about 3 hours a week.