Personal Musings
Posts about me
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There is no god

I do not believe in god, and while I’ll concede there are some aspects to organised religion that can do good, on the whole I don’t think religion is a good thing. I’ve felt this way for a long time now, and when I’ve mentioned my non-belief to believers in the past, the discussion usually…
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Time for a walk?

One piece of advice that stuck with me, although I know not where I received it, was to look up as I walked around a city. Try it the next time you get the chance, there is far far more interesting things happening above head height in most major cities, so rather than focus on…
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(Re)Starting Small

I appear to have misplaced my mojo. I’ve not lost it completely. I mean I know roughly what it looks like, and it can’t be far cos I had it up until recently. I just can’t be bothered looking for it. I know I know, it’ll be the last place I left it. Thing is,…
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The person I thought I was

I occasionally read my own blog. I’m not sure why. It’s either a perfectly reasonable act of reflection or a deeply questionable way to spend an afternoon. There are few things quite like stumbling across something you wrote twenty-two years ago and thinking, with genuine confusion, who the fuck was that? The annoying thing is…
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You should be dancing

My baby moves at midnight,Goes right on ’til the dawn,My woman, take me higher,My woman, keep me warm Ahhhh you cannae beat a bit of Bee Gees eh! What a tune! Recently my wife and I attended a friend’s wedding, it was at a local hotel and the entertainment was one guy with a guitar…
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Doorbell Cams are Bullshit

As I have mentioned, I rarely see things completely one way or another. Whether we like it or not we are multitudes and nuance is always required. I can’t think of a single topic where this doesn’t hold true (I’m sure there is, I just can’t think of one right now). And then I read…