The Mindfulness Of Cats
While becoming increasingly stressed about the vortex of expectations and obligations surrounding me at the moment, it struck me that cats are rather expert ...
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Booking Tickets For Future Travel
I spent the majority of today either filing expense claims for recent travel, or (rather craftily, I thought) filing expense claims for trains tickets that h...
Monday Night Hotel Club
I’m sitting in a hotel room 200 miles from home. I got back from the hotel restaurant a couple of hours ago, and all I have done since is obsess overthe thin...
Accidentally Via Oxford
While walking to the railway station this afternoon I took a look at tickets the machine at the station printed out, and noticed the overall journey ticket w...
One Blog To Rule Them All
I killed my Tumblr account last night. I know - I’ve done it before. Last night felt like the final time though, because it wasn’t so much about me, as the p...
Miss 13 Joins The Social Internet
My middle daughter turned 13 years old this morning. Before going to bed last night she made a point of telling me her phone was on charge, ready to install ...
Hoping For The Car Crash
If you listened to the weather reports in the UK yesterday morning, you would have thought the second great ice age was about to begin. A storm was approachi...
A Long Slow Journey Home
I left the office at 12:30 this afternoon. The lady on reception in the office building called a cab for me, and I busied myself with calling home while wait...
The One Where My Stomach Re Programmed My Brain
I took the remains of last night’s pizza with me to the office this morning - wrapped up in the sandwich bags I bought from the supermarket while waiting for...
Remembering Thoughtcafe
In early 2000, while learning about web development, I built a simple website for people to post stories to. The site began with a few pieces of writing of m...