Category: life
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2026-05-10 Fathoms measureless to man Something about a many headed dragon, or a three headed dog – I’m not entirely sure. I’m beginning to wonder if the entire point of falling down rabbit holes is to discover further rabbit holes. While deliberating about resurrecting the WordPress incarnation of my blog, I questioned the mighty Google…
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The rest of the family went to bed some time ago. You find me holed up in the study listening to a playlist, bathed in the light of the screen, wondering what tomorrow might bring. I’m trying to slow down. I bought a bottle of wine this evening and kicked back – watching television for…
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It’s a bank holiday here today. Rather than give in to expectation or obligation to “not waste the day”, I’m just pottering about, and not really achieving much at all. It’s wonderful. I considered wandering into town – to prop myself at a table in a cafe with the laptop for a couple of hours…
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After laying in bed listening to REM this morning, and debating about “Night Swimming” being their best tune, I scraped myself out of bed, had a shower, got dressed, and quietly exited stage left to wander towards Wetherspoons for breakfast and coffee. I just made a “Small American” disappear, and may have to re-fill my…
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2026-04-26 Even Worse You know the one where you think you’ve reached the bottom of the barrel – the lowest ebb – the worst things can get – and then you realise you were only on the first floor, and there is a veritable sky-scraper below you? That. It’s worth pointing out that this isn’t…
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The weekend has finally arrived. Rather than escape to Wetherspoons this morning I wandered to the corner shop, picked up some bacon, and made bacons sandwiches for myself and my middle daughter for breakfast. She somehow scraped herself out of bed at 8am after returning home from work only a few hours earlier. She often…
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I woke with a start a little after 6am this morning before waking again a few minutes later. Finally scraping myself out of bed perhaps half an hour later, I wandered downstairs and stood in the shower staring at the wall – wondering how many things we do like automatons every day. After clearing the…
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2026-04-18 Maybe this IS a simulation Why is it that just as you start to think you’re getting on top of things, and reluctantly begin to think the world isn’t quite so bad after all, the world will find a way to shit on you from a colossal height. I can’t really tell you what’s…
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2026-04-14 One foot in front of the other Today was a better day – I think mostly because I forced it to be. It’s funny how much difference a good night’s sleep can make. I woke with a start at perhaps 6:30am, had a shower and a coffee, and it was still not 7am. While…
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I appear to have fallen off the internet bicycle again – and it’s not so much that I’m struggling to get back on it – it’s more that I’m not sure I really want to. I’m willing to consider that I’m ever so slightly burned out. After the last couple of years working flat out…
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In the moments before waking up this morning I had the worst dream in quite some time – so bad that I can still remember it, 18 hours later. I told the rest of the family about it at dinner this evening, so I suppose that might have recorded it permanently into my subconscious –…
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While scrolling through recent content at several of the “tent pole” social media walled gardens recently, it struck me just how many people are “in it to win it”. By that, I mean they’re either pushing a service, or endlessly preaching – telling whoever will listen what to do, when to do it, how to…
