Things I’ve read

Reading time: 2 mins Fighting the Shame of Skin Picking /// A Bicycle Is an Anti-Poverty Machine /// Is Your Brain Foggy? Here Are Five Ways to Clear It /// Ukraine war: Putin has redrawn the world – but not the way he wanted /// How to have less stuff /// How Sweden Sends Just 1% of Its Trash…

Hello again

Reading time: 2 mins If in doubt, write about what you haven’t written about even though you’ve been trying to… In the past when I’ve struggled to find time/motivation/words for this blog I’ve resorted to some cliched posts and, well, here’s another one. I had planned to write about Father’s Day, given it was my first one as a…

Blogiverary: 23 years

Reading time: < 1 min Whilst the arrival of my son has curtailed posting here recently, I still have plans to post more often but as ever life is, wonderfully, gloriously, getting in the way. 23 years is a long time to be doing anything on a semi-regular basis and this blog has seen me through several major life events;…

When plans change

Reading time: 3 mins I’ve been goal driven most of my adult life, it’s part of who I am and over the last few years I’ve been slowly changing my approach to it so I’m confident that these days it’s a healthy thing, not a potentially self-sabotaging mechanism. Which is just as well as, somewhat predictably, my goals for…

A Great Day

Reading time: 2 mins Yesterday we had a Naming Ceremony for Jack. Just us and a small group of friends and family, the people we know will be in his life for years to come. Alas some people werenโ€™t able to be there, but we know he was in their thoughts on this special day. We all gathered at…

Stalled

Reading time: 2 mins Entry 582 of an ongoing series of posts about how minor injuries and life events continue to get in the way of carefully made plans. Safe to say itโ€™s been an eventful year so far, in no specific orderโ€ฆ At the end of January we had booked in to a hotel for a night to…