Recent Posts

Running And Quizzes

1 minute read

After work yesterday evening I pulled on my running shoes and went for a run around town. It seemed like a good idea at the time - but I had completely forgo...

Where Does The Time Go

1 minute read

Since stepping back from posting ‘every other day’ to the blog, I’ve discovered a paradox of sorts. While I thought having a few days between posts might con...

Weary

1 minute read

It’s “Father’s Day” in the UK today. I have mixed feelings about it - knowing that it was invented in the US along with “Mother’s Day” in the early 1900s (Mo...

Spread Thinly

1 minute read

How is it Thursday already? Where do the days go? It feels like my feet haven’t touched the ground all week. Take today as an example - somehow I’ve filled a...

A Day In London

2 minute read

Early yesterday morning I left the house with my youngest and eldest daughters, and travelled into London for the first time in over a year. A day of wanderi...

Bravery

1 minute read

It’s been a strange few days.

The Case Of The Vanishing Daughter

1 minute read

When we got up yesterday morning, my other half knocked on our youngest daughter’s bedroom door and poked her head in to say “wake up”. She wasn’t moving und...

Running Up That Hill

1 minute read

Invariably I try to get to a “good place” with programming before finishing for the day - yesterday that didn’t happen. Something wasn’t working, and it cons...

Every Few Days

1 minute read

Has anybody seen my blogging horse? Or was it a bicycle? I never was good at idioms and analogies.