Fourth Night
Tonight marks the fourth and final night in the hotel - I received word in the office this morning that I’ll be released, and will be able to travel home tom...
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First Time Ive Been Ill In Over A Year
I’m not joking. It might even be 18 months. Sure, I’ve had colds. This feels more like flu though (I bet it isn’t - but I have a creeping dread). I’ve had fl...
Finding Out Who Your Friends Are
Earlier this evening I wrote a somewhat abrasive comment about Tumblr exercising their right to slash and burn the “Missing E” browser extension from their i...
Final Friday Of The Year
I’m sat in the study at home, bathed in the light of a desk lamp, two monitors, and a laptop. I’m officially “on call” for work - which in reality means I lo...
Embracing Your Inner Weirdness
In recent months the various pulls on my time have regularly conspired to erode the blogging community I know and love to a silent crowd viewed from a passin...
Doing Nothing
I overslept this morning. I had been planning on getting up not long after the children to hopefully deflect them somewhat from my parents. I appeared downst...
Doing Nothing On Purpose
For the last couple of days I have been more or less “offline” - or at least, disconnected more often than not. I will neither confirm or deny that I have ea...
Bad Moods Broken Bikes Football And Running Shoes
I came home in a hell of a bad mood this evening. I would probably have been okay, but found myself picking up mugs, glasses, cups, plates and cutlery before...
An Early Start
The scrambling of a little person wrenched me from my dreams this morning as she made her way up our bed in the dark, and sought warmth in the bedclothes bet...
Adding Up The Miles
This will be the last post for a while about running - I promise. Fitness blogs are insufferable at the best of times - which is why I’ve signed up for a soc...