{"id":7009,"date":"2013-03-31T01:31:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T01:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=7009"},"modified":"2013-03-31T01:33:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T01:33:52","slug":"on-dog-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/on-dog-ownership","title":{"rendered":"On dog ownership…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Going back a few years, I used to include a lot more non-wine-related material in my blog. Truly unprofessional, I admit. But I think it’s important.<\/p>\n

As a reader, I want to know where a writer is coming from. What is their context?<\/p>\n

If I am going to follow their recommendations, it is almost like developing a sort of relationship with the writer. The writers I most enjoy reading are those who are disclosing. Who, without necessarily meaning to, allow themselves to be known through their words.<\/p>\n

So\u00a0maybe I need to be a little more unprofessional and blog about stuff other than just wine – at least from time to time?<\/p>\n

A bit of dog talk. Our dogs form quite an important part of my life, because\u00a0I am the\u00a0primary dog walker. It’s a daily duty that can seem like a chore, but which is actually pretty enriching. It forces you\u00a0to get outside every day, whatever the weather, and this provides a\u00a0valuable punctuation mark in the routine of work.<\/p>\n

A dog walk is a reflective time. It’s a time where you can’t do any work. As a freelancer I\u00a0always have a lot of things left undone\u00a0– work that needs to be attended to. Without forced down-time, although I might get more work done, the quality would suffer.\u00a0There’s a\u00a0healthy ratio of writing to\u00a0living, I reckon. Writing without living is a disaster. It’s for this reason that I’ve considered setting aside a day a week just for reading. Am I brave enough to implement this?<\/p>\n

I took the dogs for a longer walk today, to Crane Park, which is a lovely stretch of the river Crane running from Twickenham to Hanworth.\u00a0It was still pretty cold:\u00a0spring here in the UK has stalled, with temperatures only\u00a0just nudging over freezing even though we are almost in April. When spring finally arrives, we’ll make the most of it.<\/p>\n

Life would be\u00a0easier\u00a0without dogs, for sure. But poorer,\u00a0too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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