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Godzilla

3 minute read

We have one of my school books from infant school somewhere - a book where half of each page is given over to a drawing, and the other half is ruled with wid...

Stretched

2 minute read

Reaching the end of the week feels like being tipped from a wheelbarrow into the weekend. It’s been a tough one. Not emotionally or physically - just mentall...

Finding Time

2 minute read

It feels like I haven’t found time to do much of anything recently - the huge project I’ve been battling with at work continues to grow - swallowing up devel...

Fathers Day Funfairs And Goats

5 minute read

I woke with a start at 4am, and blundered my way through my phone while trying to find the radio app - to listen to the Tyson Fury boxing match. The fight fi...

Slow Saturday

3 minute read

I have achieved very little today. I’m almost proud that I’ve achieved so very little. While most people look forward to the weekend, kicking back, and resti...

A Perfect Cup Of Tea

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A long time reader of my blog has asked if I might describe how I make a cup of tea. Apparently being English introduces some kind of hoodoo into the process...

Tea Solves Everything

2 minute read

After a quite beautiful weekend, the sky decided that enough was enough today, and not content with rolling dark clouds across the hereabouts, it dumped seve...

Entitled And Aloof

3 minute read

While walking back from town earlier with groceries I turned a corner and came across a man in his mid-thirties walking his dog. The dog was attached to him ...

Wonderland

3 minute read

I woke up with a start at 4:30am this morning to an empty bed and a silent house. After a few moments scrabbling around to find my phone, squinting at the sc...

Single Handed

1 minute read

I’m sailing the ship single handed this weekend - my other half is taking our youngest daughter to France to watch the England ladies football team play in t...