Negative
The COVID test result came in at 8:30pm this evening. Negative. A wave of relief swept through the house - prisoners no more. Within half an hour I was on my...
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Self Isolating
Our entire household has to self isolate for the next day or so - for as long as it takes for my eldest daughter to get her COVID test result back. She has b...
People
I watched “As Good As It Gets” this evening - the movie with Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt. I love stories about broken people - where being different isn’t ...
Pasta And Meatballs
I missed lunch again today. Actually - missed is a bit of an exaggeration. I was working on something more interesting than stopping and eating, so grabbed s...
Days Like These
I make promises to myself sometimes - simple things - easy promises to make. “I’ll start forcing myself to take lunchbreaks”, for example. And then I look up...
Strange Dreams
After falling into bed uncharacteristically early last night, I fell into a deep sleep and dreamed. It’s rare that I remember dreams - but one of last night’...
Doctor Who And Rainy Days
You know how when you meet acquaintances in passing, you ask each other “how are you?”, without really caring how each other really are? And how you typicall...
Not Playing The Game
After an email conversation with an old friend earlier today, I thought it might be worth expanding on the re-appearance of my writing at Substack, and it’s ...
Five More Kilometres
After staying up half the night to watch the morbidly hilarious US presidential debate take place in the US - mostly waiting for Biden to ask Trump to grow u...
Headaches
I was going to write a post this morning about mistakes - about how nobody is perfect, and about cancel culture. Then I thought better of it. Nobody wants to...