Distractions
I started writing this post an hour ago. Somewhere along the way I ended up playing two games of chess, made a cup of coffee, and ate a load of rubbish - all...
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In Search Of The Weekend
I wish I knew where the weekend went. There seems to be some sort of anomaly in the space time continuum - specifically located at the cross section of me, a...
Changing Things Around
In something of an experiment this evening, I’m writing this post on the old Apple iMac perched on the spare desk in the junk room at home. The last time it ...
Friday Night
I just spent the last few minutes standing in the back garden, waiting for the International Space Station to pass overhead. After a week of clear blue skies...
Sitting On My Hands
After drinking several beers last night and announcing a half hearted withdrawal from the internet at large, I’ve decided today that I might have been a litt...
What On Earth
I just re-wired MailChimp. Something a friend wrote in an email to me recently resonated - that all of the big platforms - WordPress, Tumblr, and so on - rea...
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It’s heading towards 10pm, and you find me sitting in the dark of the study at home, trying to write this quickly before I melt. I bought some beer from the ...
A Summer Of Song And Laughter
There was a moment this afternoon, while our house was filled with fourteen year old girls, that I couldn’t help smiling - even though they were thundering u...
The Online Friendship Dilemma
We empty our heads into the keyboard, or share brief moments in photos and videos, and often come to know each other better than those that surround us in th...
The Climb
After a pretty spectacular falling down episode last night, I agreed to meet our eldest daughter for lunch today - to provide her an escape from work for hal...