Full Circle

If you happen to find yourself wandering in the general direction of recursivewords.com while scrolling (you know – instead of getting on with whatever you should be doing), you might notice a few changes.

I caved and moved the “mother blog” to WordPress – mostly in response to a Blogger robot banning my blog earlier this week. They re-instated it within hours, but it brought home to me how much of a house-of-cards Blogger is – even if I was viewing it through rose-tinted glasses.

I won’t bore you with how I managed to lift the last few years worth of posts in the air and land them again – suffice to say the Substack import at WordPress tends to fail spectacularly when faced with any more than a hundred posts.

Thankfully humans are still better than AI at some things – even if that includes telling AI how to do something. The response typically starts with “That’s a brilliant insight…”

While on the subject of technology, does anybody else struggle with Apple auto-correct replacing what you’ve written with utter gibberish? I’ve been fighting a continual battle with it replacing words on me for months now – words that make no sense in the context of the sentence I’m writing.

Enough about technology (which Apple auto-correct just changed to “techology”)… seriously.

Anyway.

Today is the last day “at home”. At mid-day tomorrow a taxi will arrive to transport us to the docks at Southampton to board the P&O cruise ship “Aurora”. The bags are mostly packed.

Shit just got real for the kids – with their main concern being “what happens if the internet stops working?”. Bugger the washing machine, the central heating, or anything else – the internet is apparently far more important.

I fitted a stair gate at the top of the stairs this morning – in preparation to stop a certain little person who is on the cusp of walking at 7 months old. We suspect we may miss her first steps while absent. WhatsApp will be our friend.

We’ll be gone for a MONTH – not that you’ll notice, because I’ll have more time than ever before to write – and I fully intend to.

I’m taking the laptop, tablet and phone with me. I’m even taking a small portable camera – the kind we all used before smart-phones came along – to save my mobile phone battery while wandering around far-flung cities (although saying that – paranoia made me buy a portable phone charger thingy – I only just remembered it).

The clothes are almost all packed now. Just my other halves dresses to go into travel bags in the morning. I’ve packed my running shoes – while at sea I’m determined to use the time wisely. I’m sure we’ll forget something tremendously important – it would be odd if we didn’t.

I imagine the next post from me will be written and posted from somewhere off the coast of Portugal on Tuesday – as we make our way towards the Mediterranean.

Wish us luck!