Beer Music And Rain
Yesterday evening I was invited out to the “members evening” at the local brewery. If you become a member of the brewery - which costs an annual amount - you...
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Haircuts Bowling And Bad Movies
While the other occupants of the house sat around sipping tea and watching breakfast television shows this morning, I jumped in the shower, had a shave, got ...
Putting Pen To Paper
Over the last ten years I have emptied my head from time to time into the pages of a paper notebook. I remember buying the first one - a Moleskine, because t...
Achieving Nothing
In many ways today was the first day of my vacation. The first day when I wasn’t racing through chores in the usual breakneck effort to achieve something app...
Unexpected Compliments
While catching up with a distant friend on Friday, I got told that my blog was “GREAT”. I of course questioned what she had been drinking or smoking, and imm...
Two Weeks Off
Watching the clock tick down this afternoon at work was interminable. It reminded of countless begging sessions with grandparents when I was little, when the...
Counting Down The Hours
I have a little over seven hours left in the office tomorrow before two weeks vacation. To say I’m looking forward to it would be a colossal understatement. ...
Starting Over
Over the last few months I experimented with writing under an assumed name - not for the first time. While it was fun to contemplate the idea of writing abou...
Street Party
We live in the corner of a green, which is surrounded by houses filled with many families we have never met. That all changed today after a number of the loc...
Autopilot
Do you ever have moments, hours, or even entire days when you feel like you have been running on autopilot? I do. Maybe not entirely offline, but sometimes i...