Category: Personal Musings
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What kind of man?
As a chronic over thinker (much of which I’ve inflicted on you here, dear reader) it’s fair to say that how to be a good father and how to set a good example to my son, are major topics in my brain on any given day. I replay moments wondering how to do better next…
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Systemised Unspending
Many years ago I downsized where I lived, I got rid (sold/donated/trashed) a lot of stuff and, for the most part, I’ve not missed any of it. Since then I’ve built up more stuff again but with a slightly different slant and I’m confident that I don’t have the same volume, and the things I…
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Missing Mumsie
It all started with The Crystal Maze on Channel 4. It was 1990, and we only had four TV channels to choose from and The Crystal Maze was a fun game show. In it, the host (Richard O’Brien) would take the contestants through different zones, and they’d have to partake in different categories of games;…
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Songs that last
Both my parents were musicians, my Dad played guitar and banjo (and once appeared in his folk band on the same bill as The Corries), my Mum played the piano, both sang in local and national choirs; vague recollections of my Uncle conducting them both in Paisley Cathedral for a performance of Handel’s Messiah, a…
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Clearing Out
I’ve been a bit more active on social media recently, mostly as a way to share thoughts as I go through a variety of processes that all kinda suck but all need done, you know the type, all the adulting paperwork stuff that you just plough through because you have to. The current focus, and…
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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
I’m old enough to have acquired some wisdom along the way, or at the very least some life experience, to know that life won’t always be completely shit. When I was younger I used to think my life was kinda shit. Like all young adults I had dreams and aspirations, which of course all stemmed…