I will add my best birthday wishes to your post. vilakins has given me such encouragement during the long and painful process of writing my first novel. Have a lovely bubbly birthday!
No, it's a self-imposed deadline. haven't gone next nigh or near an agent yet, nowhere near ready :-)
Have an Australian friend and he says the emotions roused by Anzac Day still run pretty high. Doesn't surprise me. I didn't do much research on the Turkish campaign but my mother was there, standing where the defending Turks would have been. Fish in a barrel, basically :(
A lot of people make the trip to Gallipoli, but ANZAC day now stands for all war, and I'd say the traditional poppies are from Flanders. There's still a huge turnout for dawn parades and services. We don't forget.
It's not well known but NZ lost more people per capita than any other country in WW2. (And look how the British treat us now.)
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Date: 2012-04-28 11:44 am (UTC)I want to read the finished work one day. I'm sure it will be in bookshops one day. You're a very talented writer.
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Date: 2012-04-28 11:52 am (UTC)Enjoy the rest of the your birthday weekend. Any chance it's a Bank Holiday?
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Date: 2012-04-28 11:56 am (UTC)Nah, we're done with those till one in June and one in October. We did get last Wednesday off (ANZAC day) which was good.
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Date: 2012-04-28 11:59 am (UTC)Have an Australian friend and he says the emotions roused by Anzac Day still run pretty high. Doesn't surprise me. I didn't do much research on the Turkish campaign but my mother was there, standing where the defending Turks would have been. Fish in a barrel, basically :(
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Date: 2012-04-28 10:18 pm (UTC)It's not well known but NZ lost more people per capita than any other country in WW2. (And look how the British treat us now.)
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