Lent Project 2013 – How’s It Going?

I’m doing something a bit different this year for lent.

Well, it’s day #10 and so far I’ve kept up with my plan. I’ve sent a postcard to foreign lands, given someone a Thomas the Tank Engine book, baked someone biscuits, written letters and emails and surprised someone with new slipper socks.

It’s nice, doing things for people for no reason other than I’m thinking about them. Some of the recipiants didn’t realise what I am doing for lent so it was a total surprise (spot the folk who don’t have internet/read my blog!) which was actually really nice.

For example, I sent my grandparents a parcel of fancy biscuits and jam and got a very surprised and pleased phone call to say thank you (right in the middle of trying to change a particularly delightful nappy, I might add) – this meant we got to have an unexpected chat too. It was short but sweet and I was left with a nice glow inside because I knew I’d made their day a bit brighter and showed them just how much they mean to me.

Some days it has been quite hard to think of what to do that each person would appreciate – I want each person (or, in some cases ‘people’) to feel special, even if it’s just for a minute or two because they are special to me – even if I don’t keep in close contact with them all the time.

People aren’t necessarily recieving their letters etc. on the day I have set aside for them – but I make sure I post them on that day. It depends on whether they live close enough by for me to deliver their things by hand or if their gift is available to be ordered for a specific day. A lot of it is down to Royal Mail so I don’t doubt it’ll get spread out a bit!

I’ll update again in a week or so to let you know how I’m getting on – for now I’m off to do a bit more work on tomorrow’s gift so that it’s ready to post on time!

Carole’s Lent Project – Challenge 2

Today is the 11th day of Lent, which means it is time to start my second Lent Challenge.

For the last ten days I have read a new poem every day – everything from A. E. Housman and random poems online to the following poem written for me by my brother and his friend between turns during our Monday night snooker session!

For the next ten days I am going to write 150 words a day on my WIP. Any 150, even if they are rubbish that I slash out at a later date – a first draft is a first draft for a reason and I just need to get back into the habit of writing regularly and 150 words is nothing – this blog post is going to be about 150 words easily and it’s taken me all of ten minutes to bash out.

Fingers crossed I will get much more than my 150 a day written and my WIP will slowly start feeling less like just another beginning and more like something I might even manage a middle of….or possibly an end, now that would be a novelty.