Written by Susan Lane

ColourMine Begins a New Day with a Cup of Tea Courtesy of De’Longhi

A rainy morning, a cup of tea, and a quiet resolve to shape ColourMine into something more intuitive. This blog poem captures a moment of creative recalibration from my early days on Squarespace—when I was still navigating the nooks and crannies of an unforgiving platform, wrestling with drag-and-drop quirks and the endless search for hidden elements and elusive niceties in unfamiliar territory.

Woke up at 3.30 am today 
With my poems on my mind 
And all the things I want to say 
Before I got into life’s foray 

I also needed to do 
What comes naturally to me and you 
And yes, I know, that’s just too much 
Personal information for thee 
And the good news, the sky was crying, 
It was raining you see 

That brought the temperature down 
From 20 to a more manageable 13 degrees C 
I was glad, it was so nice but 
Just a prelude to it being like a furnace 
So hot you see, 
In the region of about 26 degrees or more 
It’s going to be 

But sitting here with a cup of tea, 
Courtesy of my kettle, De’Longhi 
With Sid the dishwasher whirring around, 
A nice gentle background sound 
I’m slowly considering what I should do, 
My whole day really needs thinking through 
I’ll pop on my blog at the start of the day, 

Night-time Considerations

I had considered night 
Whilst I was hitting the hay 
I’d mow the lawn first thing today 
But now that’s not possible for me 
Because of the rain 
So, I’ll leave it because that would be 
Stupid and dangerous you see.

In the meantime, I know what I shall do, 
I’ll tweak ColourMine to improve it for you 
Whilst I quench my thirst with a drop of tea 
Then maybe I’ll try to sort out 
The help you might need 

To enable you to find anything 
That will save more time for you to read 
Instead of you having to look through 
I thought maybe you’d like 
A new query the box for you, 

Upgrading ColourMine for You

A box with the spy glass so you can find 
A category or poem within ColourMine, 
This way you definitely know 
I’m looking for ways to improve things for you 
Then hopefully you’ll find
How easily you can travel gracefully 
Around and through ColourMine 
Whooptido 

Once that’s done, I think I’ll spend some time for me,
I’ll copy type all my poems so they’re ready you see
Then pop them on ColourMine for you all to read
Hopefully with a reasonable typing speed 
Of between 50 and 80 wpm I’ll be pleased 
Then it shouldn’t be long until I succeed.

If I have anything more of this to do 
Then I shall be very pleased 
Other than that, maybe 
The day will be done and 
Quite likely you’ll eventually see 
More musing and poems from me 

And now, yes, you’ve guessed it, 
Time to join me for yet another cup of tea, . . . 
But just quick before I go, click on 
Blog
Then you’ll have something more to read
And maybe again later with your beer, hehe

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ColourMine poetry, and the original photographs, are completely authentic to myself, Susan Lane – no AI, no plagiarism, all checked and verified by copyleaks

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