Well, till now, I've normally done a short version and a longer one for every challenge, but this time...things are different, so just one version. April has been super packed - I was travelling in the UK for a good part, meanwhile a favourite aunt passed away back in Kolkata, the West Bengal elections, sundry other big, small events. With spillover into May as well.
I had decided on a proper theme this time, no clubbing of letters, no cobbled together last minute anyhow posts was the main objective, I did achieve that. Yesss!
But very little else. The photo search took absolutely aeons, the regular film ones are in albums dated from 1980s to 2005-06, the digital ones in memory sticks scattered all over - my housekeeping is abysmal on these, so needle-in-haystack type search cut into precious writing time. Lesson learnt - not going to base any themes on non-digital images again. Nostalgia is all very fine, but get the images off the net. Less grainy, less of a time suck
I missed out rather a lot of monuments/places - the gardens of Tehran, the Jeita Grotto in Beirut, the Khan el Khalili and Sharia Muiz in Cairo, the Qutb Minar and Red Fort in Delhi, the Hazratbal in Kashmir, the Ghats of Varanasi, the fountains of Rome, the Mosque Cathedral of Cordoba, the Lindenhof in Zurich and on and on...either because I couldn't find/didn't have photos, or just plain forgot and/or the word count was getting unmanageably high.
My reading was frightful. That was always going to be the case of course - if I was going to write elaborate posts on the day, there was going to be hardly any crumbs left for visiting or reading. However, I did even more poorly than I'd expected. Not signing up for the road trip or anything, but I'm going to be visiting some of the bloggers and read, now that I'm not scrambling to post something everyday.
Thank you to the hosts and all those who visited, read and commented. My apologies for the visits I could not return and the comments I couldn't respond to. I intend to remedy that rudeness this month and catch up as much as I am able.
That's it. Another year, another A-Z. I enjoyed myself, I always do at the A-Z. Will I be back in 27? Life permitting, yes. See you same place same time next year, hopefully. Till then stay well and keep blogging.
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