Import 2022-12-12 18:45 The most beautiful sound I ever heard After battling my way to the end of an unexpectedly lengthy day at work, my other half wandered into the dark of the junk room and suggested “shall we go out for dinner? I have a voucher for the pub…” Twenty minutes later we were all walking into town together.
Import 2022-12-12 18:45 Slow Sundays Rule After a slow start this morning, I wandered into town with my eldest daughter. After quite some deliberation, we ended up at Starbucks. Armed with a cappuccino and a huge chocolate coin each, we found a quiet spot in the back of the café and enjoyed our drinks in silence
Import 2022-12-12 18:45 The Rocky Horror Picture Show We were invited by friends to a charity fund-raiser quiz-night at the local football club last night. We met them under a street lamp at the end of the road, and felt like teenagers while waiting. The quiz night was great fun – with some very dubious answers that caused howls
Import 2022-12-12 18:45 One blog to rule them all After drinking the kool-aid, and spending several weeks trying to convince myself that running my own blogging castle on my own blogging island was a great idea, I’ve retreated back to the relative safety of substack (again). Have no illusions. This is all about laziness. Substack does great email
Import 2022-12-12 18:45 The Slippery Slope I have become my own worst enemy, but at least I’ve caught myself while sliding into the abyss. I should probably explain. I’ve been tinkering with a Youtube channel for a little while now – recording content, and sharing it with the wider world (or rather, a niche interest
Import 2022-12-12 18:45 There's always something Over the next few days I’m going to find myself in a curious state of limbo with work – as one project comes to an end, and the next ramps up. Only it won’t be one project – the next few months are going to be… interesting. One of the
Import 2022-12-12 18:45 Rubbish at Drinking That’s it. I’ve had it with drinking. Or at least, I’ve had it with alcohol – until I forget how rubbish I’ve become at dealing with it. While watching the “Rings of Power” on TV last night I had a couple of glasses of wine. You would
Import 2022-12-12 18:45 Mastodon Emerges Watching the slow exodus of users bleed away from Twitter over the last several days has been interesting. Who would have thought that an eccentric billionaire hijacking one of the great tent-pole social internet platforms would cause such visceral reactions? Perhaps the greatest positive to take away from the unfolding
Import 2022-12-12 18:45 Monday I almost overslept this morning. I’m going to blame the strangest dream I’ve had in quite some time. None of it made any sense, but it stuck in my head all day. Somebody I know was in it – I’ll have to tell them about it. I wonder
Import 2022-12-12 18:45 Adventures with Hugo Sunday morning is rapidly vanishing in a storm of washing up, clothes washing, tidying up, and avoiding block-printing mayhem in the lounge (our youngest daughter has something of a cottage industry going). It’s already half eleven. The washing machine is already on it’s third load – the kitchen looks
Import 2022-12-12 18:45 Thursday Night and Friday Morning I’m not entirely sure where the last few days have gone. The word “relentless” comes to mind – both to describe the working day, and the evenings. I cooked dinner this evening – a hastily prepared spaghetti bolognese. My youngest daughter offered to help, but given that I can make it
Import 2022-12-12 18:45 Swimming Against the Tide The sky fell this morning. Cats and dogs. Curtain rods. It fell last night too. I will admit to feeling sorry for the young children “trick or treating” for Halloween – not so sorry for the teenagers trying to blag candy based on little or no effort. I ended up in
Import 2022-12-12 18:45 So near and yet so far While tinkering with this and that this morning, I stumbled upon the blog of an old friend. Somebody I really shouldn’t have lost touch with, but somehow had. One click led to another, and before I knew it I had spent the better part of an hour reading about
Import 2022-12-12 18:45 A God of Slow Things I spoke to a friend on the internet this morning – the first contact with anybody outside my family for a couple of weeks, and we both found ourselves wondering where each day goes. How is it suddenly Friday already? I suppose in a way I’m glad it’s not
Import 2022-12-12 18:45 Trying How has it been a week since the last time I wrote in the blog? How does this keep happening? In the past I wrote almost every day. How is that possible? What did I find to write about, and how did I find time to write? It’s about
Import 2022-12-12 18:45 The Harder You Work You know how sometimes life continues on for months on end, without anything in particular happening? The last few years have been a bit like that. And then yesterday, all sorts of things happened one after another. Which is good, I think? The universe started to re-arrange it’s doorways
Import 2022-12-12 18:45 Paying it Forward A few years ago (actually quite a few years ago now) there was a popular twenty something TV drama in the UK that made stars of it’s cast. It’s still on now, but nothing like as popular as it once was. The actors involved were splashed across the
Import 2022-12-12 18:45 Searching for Splinters at the Doctors The clock is ticking towards lunchtime, and I’m yet to really get started with any meaningful work. Most of the morning has been spent sitting in the doctor’s waiting room with my youngest daughter, who has had a mysteriously swollen finger all week (Dad jokes about pointing at
Import 2022-12-12 18:45 Stealing Minutes from the Sandman You find me sitting in the dark at 1am again. I’m not entirely sure how this keeps happening. One minute I’m washing up the things from dinner – the next everybody else has gone to bed, and I’m here tinkering with a few different projects and losing track
Focus Tuning Out I opened the word processor at 8:35 this morning, with every intention of writing a blog post before work started. One thing after another cropped up throughout the day to make sure no writing of any sort happened. Before I knew it, I was up to my ears in
Friends I never thought of that before It’s been a strange few days. My other half finished working at a local infant school on Friday. The end of nearly twelve years as “the lady in the office” – and apparently a huge figure in the childhood of hundreds of small children along the way. We’ve kind
Elon Musk Watching for the Keymaster Do you ever feel like you’re drowning in the various projects you’re involved in – but also realise that you started each project? I suppose you could say I’m terrible at saying no to myself. I was supposed to go for a run this morning – to begin getting
Friends With a little help from my friends We went out last night – to help a good friend celebrate her birthday. We met at her house, summoned a taxi, and had the best night out in quite some time. A lovely meal, a few drinks, and lots of stories, laughter and smiles along the way. I’m SO
Late Twenty to Midnight As the title suggests, the clock is whirling inexorably toward midnight once again. I’m sitting in the dark of the junk room, watching a pretend aeroplane whistle across a pretend sky – headed for Halifax, Nova Scotia. It’s relaxing, in a strange sort of way. Work is going well
Time A minute here, a minute there I continue to struggle finding time to write. A window of opportunity opened at lunchtime, but before I knew it one thing after another conspired to slam it shut. I’m not sure I have much to write about. I was programming all day again. Working on a project that
