Write Right Now

This is the second part of the first chapter. You can read the first part here.

As I walked through the halls of the hospice to her room, I was struck by the silence. Deathly silence really.

Inside her room everything seemed as it was before, except for her lifeless body, twisted as though in pain. I fell to my knees and started sobbing. This was not something I was ready for, despite 18 months of expectation. I don’t recall what time I left, or what was said. But the next day was a flurry of activity.

There’s just so much to do when someone dies. Certificates to collect, funerals to arrange, relatives to tell. So many officials and functionaries to deal with.

Strange how easy it is to forget that she’s dead. For a moment, after walking out of one funeral director’s office in disgust at the callous and impersonal way he was treating us, I thought I’d ring my mother for her advice on who to use.

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Changing your blog from one webhost to another is not much fun. Especially if you have a whole bunch of plugins. But in my case it’s done now and the 30 minutes I allowed myself to do this soon turned into much more than that. In future I’ll make the changes in a different sequence, but from that point of view it’s been a good learning experience.

If you have a blog and you ever think about changing your hosting, I’d suggest you allow yourself a lot more time than you think it’ll take - and then double it!

I’ve just done the equivalent of moving house. I’ve transferred this blog from a webhost account I’m closing to a new, cheaper on (I found a better deal).

And just like moving house I still have the equivalent of unopened boxes to work through. My theme needs updating and I’ve changed the page structure. I have no idea what that will do navigation, but it’s for the best because my blog wasn’t very well organised where it lived before. It ran quite slow too. I had to optimise the database every few days. The hosting account I’d had for quite some time wasn’t serving me well anymore so it was time to bite the bullet and make some changes.

Well, back to unpacking!

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Update: I decided that I’d go back to the old permalink structure, because when I reviewed both types I realised I didn’t need to fix what wasn’t broken.