2021
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Moving forward
The end of lockdown looms, and life as we knew it will start to re-emerge, like a wonky butterfly from a cocoon. I know that things won’t be exactly the same again, a new normal will be established and that will take a little time to settle in and I’m ok with that, I welcome…
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n+1
As with most of my hobbies, I tend to fling myself into them wholeheartedly from the get go. I’m the guy who signs up to the forums, does copious research on the internet, takes notes as he goes, learns as much as he can as fast as possible, and then goes and buys the gear.…
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6 weeks later
6 weeks = 42 days = 1,008 hours = 60,480 minutes = 3,628,800 seconds. That’s how long it was from the 18th of January to the 28th of February. I mention this with purpose as I set myself a little challenge which lasted for – can you guess? – 6 weeks, but I confess it…
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And the keys go clack
Blocked. Stuck. Static. Nothing. OK, that’s four very similar words, that’s a start. Let’s build on that. There must be something I can write about. Somewhere. Come on brain, let’s do this. There is something in there somewhere. You know how this works. Starting writing. The words will come. Won’t they? I read an article…
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She said yes
Isn’t life a funny thing. If you’d bumped into me 3 years ago and asked me what I thought the next few years would hold for me I most definitely would NOT have predicted any of the things that have since transpired although, to be fair, I don’t think most people would have picked ‘global…
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Dear Dad
It’s been six months since my Dad suddenly passed away. Since then I’ve been working through my grief and, somehow, stumbled across an Instagram account by Dr Laura Williams who shares writing prompts as one way to help people process their grief. It immediately struck a chord with me as my go-to method for dealing…