I am feeling like a petulant child right now; arms folded, lips pouting and telling my teenage kids how very unfair life is. You can tell how bad things are for me when I start trying to reason with teenagers. In Ghana there is an old African saying, which only makes sense if I give it to you literally… when you are taking a bath and a mad man comes to steal your towel are you going to run naked after him? Don’t try and figure out what mad men might be doing in your plush bathroom, don’t forget we are in Africa in the days of yore when plush bathrooms were not yet invented, when you did your ablutions in the back of your yard and went away quite contented. Anyway the moral of the story if I were to remain on track… don’t stoop to the level mad men and teenagers or better still mad teenagers.

Having been totally bent out of shape by my foolishness I am now back in the world of video editing. Who would have thunk a 3 minute video would take me 3 days? What kind of productivity is that? I am not a perfectionist and not nearly an expert but I do want to get this right, what with laying sound tracks and audio mixes and all that.

I am well into day 5 of this project. By day 70 my paypal account should be ringing with the sound of shiny new coins in excess of five thousand pounds.

I MUST finish this video this evening. Tomorrow my #2 son George will be 18 and much as I would like to be stuck in my office fund raising and editing videos I have committed to spending some time with him.

18 years eh? wow!!

(c) Anne Blankson-Hemans