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<\/a>12th April – Survey results today show the greatest editorial barrier to publishing literary translations is the ‘cost of paying translators’.\u00a0 I’ll push on with my novel translation anyway, for the love of it.<\/p>\n
13th April – Went to my son’s wedding rehearsal in the forest.\u00a0 The bride’s father was mowing a path, an aisle, for her to enter along.<\/p>\n
14th April – The wedding day;\u00a0 the most unusual wedding I’ve ever been to.\u00a0 The bride played a ukulele (which she has just learnt) and sang, in the sweetest voice I’ve heard, a song by Ingrid Michaelson, You and I.\u00a0<\/em> (Note the chair – refer to my ‘unusual thing’ for 5th Feb;\u00a0 note the table – she found it at a flea market and painted it this week;\u00a0 note the bunting – she made it.) 15th April – At dinner with my son and his bride, she was still wearing her wedding shoes which she bought online from Sweden.\u00a0 (See photo above)<\/p>\n 16th April – Years ago I opened a long-term investment account at the bank with $500, and tried to do it again today.\u00a0 The minimum they now take is $5,000.<\/p>\n 17th April – Watched a documentary about an Australian man who gave up a wealthy Hollywood life to establish schools for kids from the rubbish dumps of Phnom Penh in Cambodia.\u00a0 He started the Cambodian Children’s Fund:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.cambodianchildrensfund.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 8th April – My son is on a camping holiday for four nights at the Folk Festival, fifteen minutes from home. 9th April – The 100th day of this year.\u00a0 A guest brought us some Hot Cross Buns from a Vegan bakery.\u00a0 On the packet it says ‘cruelty free’.\u00a0 How much cruelty is there in … <\/p>\n
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