Source: Trente ans de la vie d'une traductrice "J’ai eu le bonheur d’être formée par des professionnels extrêmement compétents ..."
The Scatterling series – 31, 32 & 33 – er, & 34
My handwriting is very scribbly these days, so here is a transcription of the words on the pink bit of paper: Someone in the tax office today reminded me how much I dislike the sound of finger nails drumming on wood. Since the arbitrary delineation marking the passage of time has recently clocked the addition... Continue Reading →
Greatest Women in Translation: Allison Wright | Carol’s Adventures in Translation
Source: Greatest Women in Translation: Allison Wright | Carol's Adventures in Translation I thoroughly enjoyed being interviewed by translator and interpreter Caroline Alberoni on my favourite subject - translation.
500 words before breakfast
Content warning: Vegetarians will not like the images. In my penultimate post you saw a smidgin of my analysis of 2015 figures, which was the first step in figuring out how I would like to deal with 2016. The chief problem I had was one of proper time management. So I have come up with... Continue Reading →
Transforming coffee
It is with a sense of enormous privilege that I am able to derive the benefit of another translator's wisdom gleaned from slightly more years' experience than I have in my own bag of goodies. What is more, I was able to obtain permission to quote the perspicacious and precise woman immediately that my mind... Continue Reading →
The Scatterling series – 28, 29 & 30
I was quite conscious that the next story in this potted story of me so far was ostensibly about whisky when I attended the convivial gathering after the English Carol Service in my village on Thursday evening. I cannot claim, despite a burning desire for it to be so, that I experienced the expanded state... Continue Reading →
Stew
This story was one of my submissions in a MOOC held by the University of Iowa entitled "How Writers Write Fiction", which was an exercise in revealing character through dialogue, with a word limit. I was disappointed that I could only do about half the course because of work obligations. The wealth of material made... Continue Reading →
Review and renew: facts and goals
Statistics rock! We cannot make proper goals without doing a proper review. Dreams are very nice and all, but unless you plot them with precision, they are not going to come true. This is why I like statistics. I start with statistics so that I can make reasonable goals for the following year. It helps... Continue Reading →
The Scatterling series – 27
In my previous post, I promised you a lot of cow manure when I next wrote. Now, my dear old Dad is very sick, so this is probably a good time to relate how silly we could all be when we were young enough to be called cheeky. He loves this kind of story: REVENGE... Continue Reading →
The Scatterling series – 24, 25 & 26
The coloured bit of paper used when crafting the above image means that I am in planning mode. I say that with a strange sense of victory, since the commencement of planning coincides with the first free day I have had for months and months. In this very moment my obligations to other people are... Continue Reading →
That elusive pair of jeans 