Everything, Everywhere
After watching the inexorable march of Substack towards the same commercially driven hellscape as countless platforms before it, I’ve been scouting around fo...
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Nine Days
In the midst of feeling pretty depleted last night, a wonderful friend reminded me that I have nine days to make my own stretched out in front of me. Nine da...
Strawberry jam on toast versus the common cold
While brushing my teeth a few days ago, it occurred to me that I haven’t been sick for quite some time. Months. Not since this time last year, when I ended u...
The one where I flooded the kitchen
While taking a break from work this morning, I wandered into the kitchen and decided that the clothes rack had been standing in everybody’s way for quite lon...
Faking It
A few days ago while walking home from town the cogs at the back of my brain started turning. I’m not entirely sure why they started turning, but they did, a...
Escapology and Weird Dreams
I discovered this morning that I can’t listen to a podcast and write at the same time - I end gazing into space and listening rather than writing anything. M...
The Extroverted Introvert Corollary
A few days ago I made the colossal mistake of setting foot into the “social internet” in search of hopefully kindred spirits - or “Unicorns” as I labelled th...
The Saturday Spoons Ritual Continues
I woke with a start at 7:30am this morning - to the sound of a door being slammed downstairs. Cogs turned in my head, and a member conjured itself from somew...
The almost impossible search for unicorns
I started writing a blog before the word “blog” had entered common parlance.
Escape
It occurred to me this morning that I’m not so much living in an escape room - rather an escape life. Except I’m not really trying to escape - just becoming ...