Posts from 2022

New Years Eve

4 minute read

I woke in the early hours of the morning with a cramp in my right calf, leapt out of bed and hopped around the bedroom like a demented one-legged race partic...

Music Movies and Books

2 minute read

I’m sitting in the quiet of the junk room at home, listening to “On Green Dolphin Street” by Miles Davis. I’m going to blame a good friend on the internet th...

The small everyday deeds of ordinary folk

2 minute read

It is done. I have just paid for this blog to be hosted by Ghost for the next year. I guess the goal now is figuring out how to engage readers without sellin...

The day after Christmas

5 minute read

Yesterday began at 8am in our household - with everybody taking turns through the shower, brushing their teeth, and pulling on variously smart clothes for th...

Discovering a Wonderful Writer

2 minute read

It’s the last working day before Christmas. Half an hour left, with a long weekend stretched out ahead. While not working I’ve been grocery shopping, put two...

Keeping my mouth shut

2 minute read

Somehow we’re halfway through the week before Christmas. Only a few days left. I could swear I lost a day this week already. Being honest, I could probably s...

The week before Christmas

3 minute read

I’m just taking a break from work, sipping a coffee, and listening to some music on Spotify. A friend mentioned Eva Cassidy earlier, and she’s been rattling ...

The system that never existed

1 minute read

Have you ever invented something without inventing it? Have you ever designed a hugely complex solution to something, without designing a huge complicated so...

The end of Twitter

2 minute read

You might think a social network acquired by an egomaniac billionaire that has become unsustainable after advertisers collectively ditched it would be playin...

Sideways

1 minute read

In the normal scheme of things, if you place one foot in front of the other and keep doing it you tend to move forwards. The normal scheme of things doesn’t ...

Brave New World

1 minute read

It turns out I can sit on my hands for roughly 48 hours. That’s how long it took the thought of building a better blogging castle to ferment, and grow into a...

Sitting on my hands

2 minute read

Over the last few years I’ve walked away from one blogging platform after another - leaving Wordpress, Medium, Tumblr, and Blogger along the way.

The Strangest Experience of my Life

4 minute read

On Wednesday I travelled to a restaurant for the work Christmas meal. A relaxed lunch with co-workers I rarely see. It was quite the experience.

A Quiet Dream

1 minute read

I had one long, continuous dream last night. When I woke this morning I played through it in my head - recounting the various twists and turns of the story m...

The Internet Sausage Machine

2 minute read

I cancelled my subscription to the Medium partner programme a few days ago. I suppose it says something about the power of suggestion, and my own suggestabil...

The Imaginary Astronaut Escapade

1 minute read

I threw some photos of myself at an “artificially intelligent” application earlier today, and it resulted in the most surreal few minutes of my life - as I w...

The Christmas Market

1 minute read

The annual “Christmas Market” arrived in town this evening. The main route through town was closed off to all traffic, and the road filled with stalls servin...

Coffee OClock

1 minute read

It’s been a day - and that’s all I want to say about that. The washing machine has done several loads, the kitchen has been turned into a laundromat, and wor...

Treat Yo Self

2 minute read

For the last several years I have been soldiering on with a little Amazon “Fire Tablet”. It’s been my go-to device for reading in bed and watching movies and...

The most beautiful sound I ever heard

3 minute read

After battling my way to the end of an unexpectedly lengthy day at work, my other half wandered into the dark of the junk room and suggested “shall we go out...

Slow Sundays Rule

2 minute read

After a slow start this morning, I wandered into town with my eldest daughter. After quite some deliberation, we ended up at Starbucks. Armed with a cappucci...

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

2 minute read

We were invited by friends to a charity fund-raiser quiz-night at the local football club last night. We met them under a street lamp at the end of the road,...

One blog to rule them all

2 minute read

After drinking the kool-aid, and spending several weeks trying to convince myself that running my own blogging castle on my own blogging island was a great i...

The Slippery Slope

1 minute read

I have become my own worst enemy, but at least I ‘ve caught myself while sliding into the abyss. I should probably explain.

Theres always something

2 minute read

Over the next few days I’m going to find myself in a curious state of limbo with work - as one project comes to an end, and the next ramps up. Only it won’t ...

Rubbish at Drinking

1 minute read

That s it. I ve had it with drinking. Or at least, I ve had it with alcohol - until I forget how rubbish I ve become at dealing with it. While watching t...

Monday

1 minute read

I almost overslept this morning. I m going to blame the strangest dream I ve had in quite some time. None of it made any sense, but it stuck in my head all...

Mastodon Emerges

4 minute read

Watching the slow exodus of users bleed away from Twitter over the last several days has been interesting. Who would have thought that an eccentric billionai...

Monday

1 minute read

I almost overslept this morning. I m going to blame the strangest dream I ve had in quite some time. None of it made any sense, but it stuck in my head all...

Adventures with Hugo

3 minute read

Sunday morning is rapidly vanishing in a storm of washing up, clothes washing, tidying up, and avoiding block-printing mayhem in the lounge (our youngest dau...

Thursday Night and Friday Morning

1 minute read

I m not entirely sure where the last few days have gone. The word relentless comes to mind - both to describe the working day, and the evenings.

Swimming Against the Tide

2 minute read

The sky fell this morning. Cats and dogs. Curtain rods. It fell last night too. I will admit to feeling sorry for the young children “trick or treating” for ...

So Near And Yet So Far

1 minute read

While tinkering with this and that this morning, I stumbled upon the blog of an old friend. Somebody I really shouldn’t have lost touch with, but somehow had...

The God Of Slow Things

1 minute read

I spoke to a friend on the internet this morning - the first contact with anybody outside my family for a couple of weeks, and we both found ourselves wonder...

A God Of Slow Things

1 minute read

I spoke to a friend on the internet this morning - the first contact with anybody outside my family for a couple of weeks, and we both found ourselves wonder...

Trying

1 minute read

How has it been a week since the last time I wrote in the blog? How does this keep happening? In the past I wrote almost every day. How is that possible? Wha...

The Harder You Work

3 minute read

You know how sometimes life continues on for months on end, without anything in particular happening? The last few years have been a bit like that. And then ...

Paying It Forward

2 minute read

A few years ago (actually quite a few years ago now) there was a popular twenty something TV drama in the UK that made stars of it’s cast. It’s still on now,...

Searching For Splinters At The Doctors

2 minute read

The clock is ticking towards lunchtime, and I’m yet to really get started with any meaningful work. Most of the morning has been spent sitting in the doctor’...

Stealing Minutes From The Sandman

less than 1 minute read

You find me sitting in the dark at 1am again. I’m not entirely sure how this keeps happening. One minute I’m washing up the things from dinner - the next eve...

Tuning Out

1 minute read

I opened the word processor at 8:35 this morning, with every intention of writing a blog post before work started. One thing after another cropped up through...

Watching For The Keymaster

1 minute read

Do you ever feel like you’re drowning in the various projects you’re involved in - but also realise that you started each project? I suppose you could say I’...

With A Little Help From My Friends

1 minute read

We went out last night - to help a good friend celebrate her birthday. We met at her house, summoned a taxi, and had the best night out in quite some time. A...

Twenty To Midnight

1 minute read

As the title suggests, the clock is whirling inexorably toward midnight once again. I’m sitting in the dark of the junk room, watching a pretend aeroplane wh...

A Minute Here A Minute There

less than 1 minute read

I continue to struggle finding time to write. A window of opportunity opened at lunchtime, but before I knew it one thing after another conspired to slam it ...

Listen To The Trees

less than 1 minute read

A scene from the first Narnia movie has been tumbling around my head all day - where the children are approaching Aslan’s camp, and the fallen leaves of near...

A Piglet Moment

1 minute read

There’s a moment in the book “The House at Pooh Corner” that has always stayed with me:

Finding Time

1 minute read

As a few might have noticed, I’ve returned to Wordpress. This had absolutely nothing to do with platforms - more about separation of concerns. I needed to us...

The End Of An Era

1 minute read

Queen Elizabeth II was buried today. It seems fitting that I write something to mark the day. I’m not a royalist, and never have been, but I appreciate a lif...

If Not Now When

1 minute read

Tonight (or this morning) I’m taking a leaf from a good friend’s book - and asking myself “if not now, when?”. I’m talking about the blog of course, and writ...

Still Here

1 minute read

Rumours of my demise have been greatly exaggerated (if indeed there were any). I can’t remember the last time I let so many days go between blog posts. It’s ...

Too Tired To Think

1 minute read

I’m not entirely sure where the last few days have gone. In-between chores, work, running, writing, more chores, more running, more work, more writing, and e...

Run Like The Wind Bullseye

2 minute read

Alexa, the curious daemon that lives within an electronic gadget on the bedside table burst into life in her metronomic way once again this morning - filling...

Back To Work

1 minute read

I won’t lie - there was a feeling of dread at 7am this morning when the alarm clock filled the bedroom with an internet radio station. I drifted in and out o...

Descending Into The Twitterverse

1 minute read

This morning I have been dipping a toe into the Twitterverse. It’s a strange word, isn’t it - “Twitterverse”. The Twitter Universe. It really is a universe o...

Washing And Writing

1 minute read

We got home on Wednesday. It’s now Saturday. The washing machine is still going. I think we can see the end of the washing mountain now though (thankfully). ...

The Journey Home

1 minute read

We left my parents house in Cornwall mid-morning. The final hour was a huge game of backwards Jenga, where our belongings (and various acquisitions) were re-...

Final Day At The Coast

2 minute read

After booking a restaurant table last night, we visited Fowey today (pronounced “Foy”) - across the estuary from the small village we visited so often in my ...

Rainy Days And Aquariums

2 minute read

The weather has taken a turn for the worst over the last few days - so we’ve been rattling around my parents house. This afternoon we’re escaping for a few h...

A Day On The Beach

1 minute read

After a slow day rattling around my parents house, we escaped to the beach yesterday. A day of sun, sea, sand, and ice creams. We guessed that Saturday may b...

Walking The Coast Path

less than 1 minute read

After a slow start yesterday morning we set off to walk the coast path towards a nearby fishing village together - with the promise of lunch in a pub danglin...

The Journey To The Coast

2 minute read

I started writing this post yesterday, while packing bags ready to travel - and then realised I had nothing to write about that hadn’t happened the day befor...

Preparing To Travel

1 minute read

The day began with a shower, a shave, washing up, tidying up, and a valiant attempt to pick a few things up in the living room. I’m not quite sure why I both...

Decompression

1 minute read

Two weeks to think about as little as possible.

Olivia

1 minute read

Late last night I wandered into the living room, looking at my phone, and interrupted my other half who has been binge-watching “The Mentalist” for the last ...

Strange Dreams

1 minute read

I woke early this morning, moments after a radio station filled the bedroom with music from decades past. After spending several minutes watching light patte...

Finally The Weekend

1 minute read

I’m having the quietest of quiet days today, and counting down the days until I stop work for two weeks. In-between all the usual household chores, we will e...

Challenges Westworld And Spaghetti Bolognese

less than 1 minute read

Today has been a difficult day. A work project suffered a setback, and while nobody in particular did anything “wrong”, you can’t help wondering if there was...

Watching Wembley From Afar

2 minute read

The greater part of my family travelled to Wembley Stadium today, and witnessed England win the European cup. While the game was going on I checked in on the...

The Weekend Approaches

1 minute read

The week is finally slowing down - affording me the chance to write a few words.

In Between

less than 1 minute read

I’ve had the strangest feeling recently - that I’m in-between. Not just work projects, or chores, or whatever else. Something bigger. Something you can’t qui...

On The Outside Looking In

1 minute read

As I grow older a realisation of sorts has happened - that the world will continue on with or without me, and that my participation in it is largely inconseq...

Simplification

1 minute read

A very short post this Friday afternoon that will mean very little to very few. My blog posts originate from an account at Substack, and are cross-posted aut...

Sunday

less than 1 minute read

If news reports are to be believed, the temperature here is going to reach 38 centigrade by tomorrow afternoon. I can’t see a lot of work getting done someho...

An Evening On The Green

1 minute read

We live on the corner of a green - surrounded on all sides by sprawling suburbia. Among the various families living in those houses we have made wonderful fr...

A Hummy Sort Of Day

1 minute read

In the book “The House at Pooh Corner”, Christopher Robin asks Winnie the Pooh what he likes best in the whole world. Pooh answers:

Thunderbirds Are Go

1 minute read

Today has been a good day. A long day, a tiring day, a draining day, but also a good day.

Music And Memory

1 minute read

I think somebody broke the temperature control knob on the sun this week. We’re into day three of temperatures that I can only describe as “hotter than balls...

A Quiet Day

1 minute read

Today has been a quiet day. A quiet day was needed. A day to rest and collect thoughts.

The Weekend Arrives

1 minute read

You find me sitting in the study at home with a cup of coffee between my arms while I write this post. The only sound in the room is the clickety-clack of th...

The End Of The Week

less than 1 minute read

It’s Friday morning - or at least I think it’s still Friday morning - and I’m taking a break from work for a few minutes. I’m actually thinking about abandon...

Back To Work

less than 1 minute read

It’s day five since the symptoms of COVID arrived like a car crash, and I’m back working. My brain is been in a bit of a fog for most of the day, but to be h...

Day Four

1 minute read

Based on the very unscientific method of counting back to when the aches and temperature first appeared, this is day four of COVID, and my body appears to be...

The One Where I Caught Covid

1 minute read

We went out for dinner last week to celebrate the end of college for my eldest daughter. She seemed a bit under the weather, but soldiered on - then over the...

Ends And Beginnings

1 minute read

My middle daughter officially finished college yesterday.

Sunday Night

2 minute read

In recent months I have often found myself writing blog posts in the dead of night. Perhaps it’s a reflection on the number of things I’m trying to juggle at...

Running And Quizzes

1 minute read

After work yesterday evening I pulled on my running shoes and went for a run around town. It seemed like a good idea at the time - but I had completely forgo...

Where Does The Time Go

1 minute read

Since stepping back from posting ‘every other day’ to the blog, I’ve discovered a paradox of sorts. While I thought having a few days between posts might con...

Weary

1 minute read

It’s “Father’s Day” in the UK today. I have mixed feelings about it - knowing that it was invented in the US along with “Mother’s Day” in the early 1900s (Mo...

Spread Thinly

1 minute read

How is it Thursday already? Where do the days go? It feels like my feet haven’t touched the ground all week. Take today as an example - somehow I’ve filled a...

A Day In London

2 minute read

Early yesterday morning I left the house with my youngest and eldest daughters, and travelled into London for the first time in over a year. A day of wanderi...

Bravery

1 minute read

It’s been a strange few days.

The Case Of The Vanishing Daughter

1 minute read

When we got up yesterday morning, my other half knocked on our youngest daughter’s bedroom door and poked her head in to say “wake up”. She wasn’t moving und...

Running Up That Hill

1 minute read

Invariably I try to get to a “good place” with programming before finishing for the day - yesterday that didn’t happen. Something wasn’t working, and it cons...

Every Few Days

1 minute read

Has anybody seen my blogging horse? Or was it a bicycle? I never was good at idioms and analogies.

Half Past My Bedtime

1 minute read

When my middle daughter was about four years old, she loved talking. She still loves talking. She would often know what she wanted to say, but the exact choi...

Running And Haircuts

1 minute read

I began “Week 5” of the “Couch to 5K” running programme this morning - three five minute runs, with three minute walks in-between. I could really have done w...

Running Again

1 minute read

I went running first thing this morning - back to the “Couch to 5K” programme after a few days off after my right knee started to hurt. Fingers crossed if I ...

A Few Words

2 minute read

It’s been a few days since I last polluted the internet with any thoughts. I think the biggest surprise to me is that I haven’t really missed writing. I thou...

Stepping Back

less than 1 minute read

I’ve decided to step back from the internet for a while. Slow down.

The Great Imaginary Aeroplane Escapade

2 minute read

It’s been a few days since I emptied my head into the keyboard. I’m not quite sure how that happens. It’s almost like the universe turns the tap on or off fr...

Note Taking Rabbit Holes

1 minute read

Today was a quiet day. A day filled with meetings, and a day spent excavating a rather deep rabbit hole with warning signs posted all around it. What’s in th...

Chore Days

1 minute read

Another day. Another few kilometres in the running bank. The schedule moved on to “Week 3” this morning. It’s so tempting to go further than the schedule dic...

Little By Little

1 minute read

That’s two week’s of the “Couch to 5K” complete now, and after six months doing very little indeed my body appears to be remembering how the whole “running” ...

Tinkering

less than 1 minute read

Somebody take the keyboard away from me - I obviously cannot be trusted. While taking a break from research and development on a work project this afternoon ...

Forwards And Backwards

1 minute read

In what you might describe as an enormous re-invention of my blogging existence, I have moved the entire archive (including all manner of mangled text from t...

Xanadu

1 minute read

Throughout the last 48 hours I have been descending ever further into the federated internet rabbit hole. While trying to wrap my head around it all, the wor...

Exodus

2 minute read

Something rather interesting happened last night. Something I want to write about so I might reminisce in the future about “the day Elon Musk bought Twitter”.

Running Before Work

less than 1 minute read

I went running this morning before work. Finally getting off my backside and doing something about my general level of health and fitness. Over the next coup...

In The Dark

1 minute read

Did you know that if you install the “Dark Reader” extension into your web browser, you can write in “Dark Mode” in the Wordpress editor? Well you do now.

Thursday

1 minute read

How is it Thursday already? What happened to the first half of the week? Why do I have a headache? Is three cups of coffee before 11am a good idea? Is the co...

Normality Resumes

1 minute read

I returned to work today. Or rather I cleared the chores, had a shower, helped our youngest with feeding animals at a neighbours house, and then sat at the s...

Bank Holiday Monday

1 minute read

The final day of my staycation started at 7am when I heard Miss 17 leave the house to go feed a neighbours cats (they are on holiday). She returned ten minut...

Chocolate Egg Day

1 minute read

I’m deliberately staying away from the television and social networks today - the insufferable hoard of “He is risen!” folks are busy preaching to the conver...

Waiting

1 minute read

I’m waiting for the new lawnmower to arrive, so I can begin to de-jumanjify the back garden. That’s a real word, right? It is now.

Lawnmowers And Music

2 minute read

Do I get a badge that says “honorary member of the old fart club”, or something? I went shopping at lunchtime on the internet, and ordered a new lawnmower. I...

Turning A Corner

less than 1 minute read

My other half is sitting up in bed today, eating porridge and drinking lemonade - a huge improvement on recent days. Apparently her body is staging a spirite...

Making The Best Of It

less than 1 minute read

Our youngest daughter had a quiet birthday at home.

Mr Covid Comes To Visit

1 minute read

My other half tested positive for COVID19 this evening. She has had cold symptoms for the last several days. How typical is that? She works in a school - she...

Slowly

1 minute read

Today was the first of my “staycation”. Nine days away from work. I’m not entirely sure what I’m going to fill those days with, given that we can’t really af...

The Witching Hour

1 minute read

According to folklore, midnight marks the time in the day when witches, demons and ghosts are thought to appear, and be at their most powerful. There seems t...

Hello Midnight Old Friend

1 minute read

Here we are again - watching the clock slip effortlessly from one day to the next. Our marking of time is a curious thing, isn’t it - we place such significa...

Midnight Is My Friend

3 minute read

Here I am again, sitting in front of the computer in the dead of night, only too aware that I haven’t posted for several days. The world just seems to be get...

Late Oclock

1 minute read

I cooked dinner for the rest of the family this evening. Spaghetti Bolognese - one of the “make something quick that everybody will eat” meals that most fami...

Unexpected Discoveries

2 minute read

Once upon a time I wrote some programming (I’m a software developer in the daytime) to brute-force the problem of finding interesting blogs to read.

Tilting At Windmills

1 minute read

I planned to write a blog post late yesterday evening, but somehow it didn’t happen. That seems to be the story of my life at the moment.

I Cant Even

1 minute read

I read a newspaper headline yesterday parroting the words of a fringe “scientist” that the human race was well on it’s way towards extinction. I didn’t pay t...

Mothers Day

less than 1 minute read

It was “Mother’s Day” in England today. Apparently the origins of mother’s day in the UK date back to an era when people worked in service (think Downton). I...

The One Where I Broke The Universe

1 minute read

Something rather odd happened today. Actually - scratch that - something very odd happened today. You need some back-story first though.

Reconstruction

1 minute read

After a few days break from the blogging universe - during which time I built myself a rather lovely island on the internet and then quite predictably burned...

Reconstruction

1 minute read

After a few days break from the blogging universe - during which time I built myself a rather lovely island on the internet and then quite predictably burned...

Going Out Out

1 minute read

We are heading out this evening for a meal at the local pub with friends - to celebrate my other half’s birthday. Escaping for a few hours of sensible conver...

Refactoring

less than 1 minute read

The two week long internet island building escapade has come to an end. While looking at the collection of supposedly more thoughtful words I had migrated fr...

Constructing A Virtual Amiga

2 minute read

Too much work and not enough play makes Jack a dull boy - or at least, that’s what the pages from the typewriter in The Shining had written on them. It tends...

A Virtual Amiga

2 minute read

Too much work and not enough play makes Jack a dull boy - or at least, that’s what the pages from the typewriter in The Shining had written on them. It tends...

Interrupted

2 minute read

This morning a gas engineer arrived to do a service on our boiler. No sooner had he arrived, the boiler started throwing error codes - triggering the most am...

Twelve Days

1 minute read

Twelve days. That’s how many days I managed to stay away from publishing an almost-daily journal on the internet. If I’m entirely honest, I started writing a...

Inescapable Conclusions

1 minute read

If I’m honest, I can’t quite figure out how tomorrow is Thursday. Where did the beginning of the week go? Life, work, and everything in-between seems to have...

Forty Nine Laps

1 minute read

After scraping myself out of bed this morning, I wandered downstairs and was met by our youngest daughter - who was incredibly excited at the prospect of me ...

Little Grey Men

1 minute read

It’s the last day of February today. Where in the world did February go? I’m sure it was only Christmas last weekend. Is this how life works? A slow accelera...

Trust And Truth

1 minute read

While taking a break from work this afternoon, I have taken it upon myself to begin ripping the stock photos out of my blog and replacing them with my own. I...

Distracted

less than 1 minute read

It’s been difficult to concentrate today given the unfolding story in the Ukraine. Don’t worry - I’m not going to write about it. I’m not qualified or knowle...

Catching Up On Lost Time

1 minute read

I’m sitting in front of the computer at the end of the working day, listening to a random playlist on a free spotify account. How is it only Tuesday?

The Beginning Of A New Chapter

1 minute read

My middle daughter played moved up to the “senior” rugby team today. She turned 18 back in January virtually unnoticed until the ladies team were missing sev...

Chores Pastimes And The Fediverse

2 minute read

After going to bed somewhat early last night, you might think I would have woken early this morning - and you would have been wrong. I slept like an absolute...

Hips Lips Tits Power

1 minute read

It’s an hour into the working day, and I’m taking a coffee break. I’ve become terrible recently for working straight through the day without stopping. Invari...

Movies And Music

2 minute read

I’ve been sitting in the dark of the junk room in front of the computer for quite some time now - wondering where the words are going to come from this eveni...

Tiredness Abounds

1 minute read

It’s been a long day. A long, cold, windy, wet day.

Another Train

1 minute read

I’m sitting on the train, heading east across the country towards home. Thankfully the trains and replacement bus services have connnected so far - hurtling ...

Writing The Manuscript

1 minute read

It’s the final evening of my stay with my parents. For the past two weeks my brother and I have stayed with them to help out - to take the pressure off my Mu...

Escaping For A Walk

1 minute read

Being away from my family is strange. You would think I would sleep more heavily in a room on my own, but the opposite has been true this week - usually up b...

Haircuts And Baked Potatoes

1 minute read

I cut my Dad’s hair this morning. He sat in a chair in the middle of the lounge while I figured out how to use his hair clippers. He received the same all-pu...

Leftovers For Lunch

1 minute read

Life happens so more slowly down here. It has taken some time to adjust - to slow myself down. Yesterday morning, after making breakfasts, washing up, and ra...

Daytime Television

1 minute read

While making meals, doing chores, and talking with my parents, the television is ever-present in the background. You don’t realise you’ve started watching it...

Drinking Tea And Cooking Bolognese

1 minute read

After meeting my brother at the railway station yesterday afternoon we immediately detoured to a grocery store so I could pick up the ingredients to make mea...

On The Train

2 minute read

I’m currently sitting on a train, watching the world hurtle past at quite some speed. After hiding in the junk room for the better part of two years toiling ...

Packing Bags

1 minute read

Tomorrow morning I leave for the coast. After a short walk to the local railway station I will board a succession of trains and buses that will (hopefully) d...

Cleared For Departure

1 minute read

Somehow there is only an hour of the working day left, and I find myself in the curious position of not having stopped at all yet. You might think - working ...

Spinning Plates

1 minute read

It transpires that re-arranging your work schedule to fit around an unexpected visit to the coast is more possible than one might have expected. After endles...

Expect The Unexpected

1 minute read

It’s funny how life throws curve-balls at you from time to time, isn’t it. Just as everything seems to be plodding along in a fairly straight line for a whil...

My Writing Routine

1 minute read

I thought it might interest others to learn how I go about this whole blogging escapade. How I write, what I use, how I post - that kind of thing.

A Few Minutes

1 minute read

I’m grabbing a few minutes from my day to empty my head into the keyboard. If I don’t do it now, something will crop up, and it won’t happen.

Exiting Bloganuary

1 minute read

After consistently responding to writing prompts for twenty two days, I’m stepping away from the Bloganuary writing challenge today. Life and other commitmen...

Its Turtles All The Way Down

1 minute read

This year I’m taking part in “Bloganuary” - a series of writing prompts published throughout the month by Mindy Postoff. Today’s writing prompt is “What is y...

Norma Jean And The Butterfly Effect

2 minute read

This year I’m taking part in “Bloganuary” - a series of writing prompts published throughout the month by Mindy Postoff. Today’s writing prompt is “If you co...

Favourite Photo

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This year I’m taking part in “Bloganuary” - a series of writing prompts published throughout the month by Mindy Postoff. Today’s writing prompt is “What is y...

Something Mysterious

2 minute read

This year I’m taking part in “Bloganuary” - a series of writing prompts published throughout the month by Mindy Postoff. Today’s writing prompt is “Write abo...

Next On My Reading List

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This year I’m taking part in “Bloganuary” - a series of writing prompts published throughout the month by Mindy Postoff. Today’s writing prompt is “What book...

Superpowers

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This year I’m taking part in “Bloganuary” - a series of writing prompts published throughout the month by Mindy Postoff. Today’s writing prompt is “What is a...

Choosing Linux

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This year I’m taking part in “Bloganuary” - a series of writing prompts published throughout the month by Mindy Postoff. Today’s writing prompt is “What is a...

A Life Lesson

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This year I’m taking part in “Bloganuary” - a series of writing prompts published throughout the month by Mindy Postoff. Today’s writing prompt is “What is a...

A Challenge Faced

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This year I’m taking part in “Bloganuary” - a series of writing prompts published throughout the month by Mindy Postoff. Today’s writing prompt is “Write abo...

An Ideal Day

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This year I’m taking part in “Bloganuary” - a series of writing prompts published throughout the month by Mindy Postoff. Today’s writing prompt is “What does...

Emojis And Emoticons

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This year I’m taking part in “Bloganuary” - a series of writing prompts published throughout the month by Mindy Postoff. Today’s writing prompt is “What emoj...

To Boldly Go

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This year I’m taking part in “Bloganuary” - a series of writing prompts published throughout the month by Mindy Postoff. Today’s writing prompt is “What does...

Grateful For The Little Things

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This year I’m taking part in “Bloganuary” - a series of writing prompts published throughout the month by Mindy Postoff. Today’s writing prompt is “What are ...

Incorrect Assumptions

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This year I’m taking part in “Bloganuary” - a series of writing prompts published throughout the month by Mindy Postoff. Today’s writing prompt is “What do p...

What Do You Like Most About Your Writing

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This year I’m taking part in “Bloganuary” - a series of writing prompts published throughout the month by Mindy Postoff. Today’s writing prompt is “What do y...

Make Me Laugh

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This year I’m taking part in “Bloganuary” - a series of writing prompts published throughout the month by Mindy Postoff. Today’s writing prompt is “What make...

Inspirational

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This year I’m taking part in “Bloganuary” - a series of writing prompts published throughout the month by Mindy Postoff. Today’s writing prompt is “Who is so...

The Communication Complication

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This year I’m taking part in “Bloganuary” - a series of writing prompts published throughout the month by Mindy Postoff. Today’s writing prompt is “What is s...

Favourite Childhood Toys

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This year I’m taking part in “Bloganuary” - a series of writing prompts published throughout the month by Mindy Postoff. Today’s writing prompt is “What was ...

Leaving My Comfort Zone

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This year I’m taking part in “Bloganuary” - a series of writing prompts published throughout the month by Mindy Postoff. Today’s theme is “Write about the la...

Coast To Coast

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This year I’m taking part in “Bloganuary” - a series of writing prompts published throughout the month by Mindy Postoff. Today’s theme is “what is a road tri...

Advice To My Teenage Self

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While wandering the halls of Wordpress late last night I stumbled upon Bloganuary - a series of writing prompts that will be published throughout the month. ...

New Years Day

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So here we are. Another new year. While it’s tempting to make resolutions, to “double down” on that which was intended but not done in the past, I’m resistin...