Why Are Mondays So Awful
I woke at 5:30am this morning. I’m not entirely sure how or why. I was suddenly wide awake, checking the radio alarm clock, reading email, and wondering abou...
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A Wanderer Returns
You know the one where you start the year disconnecting yourself from social media, blogging, instant messaging, and everything else - swearing that you’re d...
Where Has The Weekend Gone
How do you go about writing a blog post when utter mayhem surrounds you ? While writing this Miss 12 is playing “Bomberman” next to me at full volume, the ra...
Everything Changes
It’s all over again. Miss 17 called an end to the relationship that has caused her so much frustration and heartache in recent weeks. We’re trying not to say...
Avoidance
I’m sitting at my desk at work, struggling to find the enthusiasm to drag the thing I’m working on over the finish line. There isn’t a finish line as such th...
Fallout
While preparing for dinner yesterday evening, we received a text message from our eldest daughter, asking if it would be alright to stay at her friends house...
Working From Home
Today has been a day to forget so far.
Tiredness Growing Up And Growing Old
I nearly fainted this afternoon. I had been working flat out all day on a technical problem. I didn’t get up from my desk from the moment I arrived in the mo...
Scrivener And Dropbox
Sunday has been remarkably quiet so far. The girls went to rugby practice first thing while I got on with chores around the house. They arrived home early th...
Never Say Never
At the beginning of the year I walked away from much of my “presence” on social media. For several years I had been posting into Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, I...