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E-mail Bankruptcy

Richard Bell’s Wild West Yorkshire nature diary, Thursday, 12th November 2009

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I HEARD of people taking drastic action to get on top of a burgeoning inbox by deleting all their e-mails and starting afresh with an empty box.

I haven’t been quite that drastic; instead of deleting them, I popped them in a file labelled ‘2009’, just in case I ever need to refer to one of them in the future.

Rejection Slip

Now I’m trying to answer each new message on the day I receive it. I wondered who would be first to drop a message into my new, blank, empty inbox. It turned out to be a pretty important one. For a couple of months during the summer I’d tried to set up an ambitious wildlife sketchbook project with a national publisher.

After some months of considering it they’ve decided not to go ahead - the format I had in mind is too general. I have to admit that I’m having more success with my more specific local projects - like Walks in the Rhubarb Triangle.

But I enjoyed my summer sketching trips, I’m sure I’ll be able to use the drawings for some other project.

Mourners at the funeral Barbara and I attended today.