Category: life
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At some point yesterday – nearly five days later than planned – and now with most of the holiday gone when I might have stage managed the migration smoothly and expertly – “The” blog has appeared at the place it should have appeared several days ago. I’m using a capitalised “The” in the same way…
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This morning you find me holed up in a corner of Wetherspoons – escaping from the world for an hour. I’ve just made a “small American breakfast” disappear, and am about to re-fill the cappuccino next to my phone. Escape has become a theme recently. Escape from obligation, escape from expectation… escape from lots of…
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After a dinner-table conversation last weekend, somehow I agreed to escort my eldest daughter to a nearby town with a ginormous shopping centre. I didn’t actually need anything, but thought it might be a fun day out, and we’ve not done anything together for a while – so the “everything must be fair” part of…
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After escaping the house a little after 9am this morning, we made our way to the local railway station, collected tickets, and jumped on the first post rush-hour train towards London. By “we”, I mean myself, my better half, and our middle daughter – who had been longing to visit the city for some time…
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After watching the inexorable march of Substack towards the same commercially driven hellscape as countless platforms before it, I’ve been scouting around for alternatives. Once I started looking, I quickly discovered a quiet exodus of similarly minded writers going on right under my nose. A small army of similarly fed up writers in search of…
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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 days to recharge. Except of course the nine days are already being taken from me. “Can you just”… Deep breaths. I’m sitting in Spoons while…
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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 up at the doctors for perhaps the third time in twenty five years, and ended up being prescribed alarming quantities of steroids. Somebody, somewhere…
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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 long enough. While folding the clothes from the rack onto the dining room table, and putting various other things away (my daughters are experts at getting things out),…
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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, and I wrote down what was turning over and over, which was lucky really, because moments later the universe landed a size twenty eight foot…
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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. My multi-tasking abilities are that bad. It’s been a week. A relentless week. A relentless few weeks. Months actually. I can’t really share any of the…
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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 them at the time – fellow recorders of life’s exhalations. The wonderful thing about writing a blog – to me at least – is the bubble of…
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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 somewhere that my middle daughter is doing the morning shift at Wetherspoons – which of course made me think about a cooked breakfast, and a…
