Category: life
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I should perhaps re-assure readers that the title of this post isn’t referring to the somewhat famous doomsday clock – that counts down the number of minutes to midnight – with midnight representing the end of all things – where mankind succeeds in wiping itself out of existence. For one thing, I’m guessing the doomsday…
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While washing up yesterday evening, I had some music playing in the kitchen and somehow found myself reminscing with my eldest daughter about the “Community” TV series that we were somewhat addicted to about ten years ago. I asked Alexa (who is ever-present throughout our house) if we could listen to “The Way It Is”…
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The last week has been a bit of a surreal experience. After the better part of a month on a cruise ship, then coming home and resigning, at least until January I still find myself still doing two jobs, doing chores, still burning the candle at both ends, and still not managing to write anything…
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I’ve always kept a line between “work” and “home” when it came to blog posts, and social media platforms – for all sorts of tremendously sensible professional and ethical reasons – never getting into who I have worked for, what projects I have worked on, how those projects have gone, or anything else. The majority…
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We finally got home from the holiday on Thursday. Ever since I have alternately been playing catch-up with email, cleaning the house, filling the rubbish bins outside, washing and drying clothes, and chasing my own tail relentlessly. Along the way I discovered a mountain of cardboard stacked in the kitchen, the lawn mower dumped in…
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Today you find me somewhere off the coast of Portugal, heading north towards northern Spain, France, and the English Channel. We’re scheduled to arrive in Southampton, southern England, in the early hours of Thursday morning. We stayed up late last night. We had planned on going for a night-cap in one of the quieter bars…
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When we woke this morning, the lights of southern Spain were slowly scrolling past the cabin window, heralding our arrival in Gibraltar – one of the more curious British territories that still somehow exist around the world – supported in this case seemingly only by tourism trade. The big question is why anybody would bother…
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After all manner of family drama disrupting dinner last night, and resulting in us spending several hours on the phone and then eating dinner in the buffet restaurant, today has been somewhat more calm. There were still phone calls throughout the day, and the prospect of all sorts of mayhem when we get home, but…
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Overnight the Aurora has been heading steadily north towards Cartagena in south eastern Spain – crossing from La Goulette, Tunisia. We arrive in the early hours tomorrow morning, and have no trips planned. We are looking forward to exploring a little of the city on foot – probably guided by an AI authored plan (we’ve…
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Having wound our clocks back twice in two days as we travelled west across North Africa towards Tunisia, it was perhaps no surprise that I woke at 6am this morning to find my other half sitting on a chair on the balcony of our cabin, watching our arrival into La Goulette, Tunisia. An hour later…
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This morning you find me holed up alongside one of the mid-ships pools, watching the world go by, and seeing a few familiar faces wander past. The clocks went back last night – the second time in two days as we travel west, north of Libya. We will arrive off the coast of Tunisia overnight.…
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We are at sea again today – somewhere in-between Egypt and Tunisia. We arrive in La Goulette near Tunis the day after tomorrow. While noodling around on the internet over the last few days – on a voyage of discovery across all manner of platforms – I somehow found myself going full circle back to…
