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Challenges Westworld And Spaghetti Bolognese

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Today has been a difficult day. A work project suffered a setback, and while nobody in particular did anything “wrong”, you can’t help wondering if there was...

Watching Wembley From Afar

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The greater part of my family travelled to Wembley Stadium today, and witnessed England win the European cup. While the game was going on I checked in on the...

The Weekend Approaches

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The week is finally slowing down - affording me the chance to write a few words.

In Between

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I’ve had the strangest feeling recently - that I’m in-between. Not just work projects, or chores, or whatever else. Something bigger. Something you can’t qui...

On The Outside Looking In

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As I grow older a realisation of sorts has happened - that the world will continue on with or without me, and that my participation in it is largely inconseq...

Simplification

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A very short post this Friday afternoon that will mean very little to very few. My blog posts originate from an account at Substack, and are cross-posted aut...

Sunday

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If news reports are to be believed, the temperature here is going to reach 38 centigrade by tomorrow afternoon. I can’t see a lot of work getting done someho...

An Evening On The Green

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We live on the corner of a green - surrounded on all sides by sprawling suburbia. Among the various families living in those houses we have made wonderful fr...

A Hummy Sort Of Day

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In the book “The House at Pooh Corner”, Christopher Robin asks Winnie the Pooh what he likes best in the whole world. Pooh answers: