Artichokes - the Saga Continues!

Well, from now on every time I need helpful advice, I'll turn straight to my Livejournal! All that feedback about the first part of my artichoke story was so helpful that I found myself doing quite a lot to the second part of the tale, just to avoid having to implement any of the changes suggested for the first!

I'm not super-confident about this section - again, concrit and feedback of any kind are much appreciated. I've spent too long thinking it over on my own - can't tell any more if it's basically OK, or if it's just flawed in ways I haven't spotted.

( Here Be Crashing Snobs and Artichokes )

I hope the font doesn't go all wierd on me this time. No idea what that was all about.

Other news: I'm going to have my name in lights - a publishing company has accepted my introduction to a dictionary, and they've sent me the proofs. I wrote this introduction about 6  months ago, and went through so much stress that I vowed Never Again, but with a bit of judicious editing and all nicely typeset it looks surprisingly plausible. I'm feeling quite smug.