Shorter posts, links, or thoughts. No schedule, not heavily considered.
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still not here
On holiday in the highlands of Scotland. Commence quick photo dump.
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Gairloch
Family holiday, Big Sands beach, cycling, kite flying, fire pits, and only missing Granny Morna who is convalescing. Jack in his element charging about outdoors. We’ve had sunshine, rain, hailstones, 20mph winds all in the space of 10 mins! Cycled from campsite to the town, and beyond, 10.5 miles. Jack is 4.5 yrs old and…
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Stop waiting to be ready
I can’t recall where I read those words —Stop waiting to be ready— they feel at once trite, and yet remain simple, to the point and, annoyingly, hit the nail on the head as far as I’m concerned. A similar saying would be ‘The right time is now’. This one time at boot camp A…
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Accomplished
Today I completed a job that I’ve had on my list for a few weeks. The specifics of the job —fixing the broken grey waste pipe on our motorhome— aren’t what matters. As ever, I prepped, researched, bought some bits I thought I might need and when I finally got around to actually looking at…
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Week 19
🤷♂️ Life 📚 Read 📰 Considered 📺 Watched 🎧 Listened 🫀 Health Back with the Bend app to work on my mobility. Definitely helps, but need to make a proper part of my routine. Same with meditation, I feel the benefit, why do I end up stopping? “Not enough time” is my excuse which, frankly,…
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34 Draft Posts
I like to capture ideas for posts as there are so many that flitter through my brain. I’m prompted by what I read on a blog, or in an article, or by something that someone mentions in passing, or a random life event. I have 34 drafts, 34 posts started with a few paragraphs and…
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Soaked
Scotland in a nutshell. Started out overcast but no rain forecast, so Jack and I got our bikes out and headed over to the park. A few spots of rain when we arrived, 30 mins later the heavens opened. We stopped for lunch and by the time we were done, the sun was out! An…
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Happy 100th Sir Attenborough
Sir David Attenborough is 100 years old and formed a large part of my love of nature through is TV documentaries through the 80s and 90s. I can remember when TVs went HIGH DEFINITION and Planet Earth (I think) was one of the first shows to take advantage and wow it looked so so good.…
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Piano
I have a Yamaha P-115 digital piano, it’s been propped up in the corner for about three years. Today I took 20 mins to shuffle some things around in my office (our spare room), and it’s set up. And my son is currently sitting bashing away at the keys. I need to try and remember…
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This is why I’m fat
My weight and my attempts to exercise have been mentioned here many times. I am more than happy to hear constructive comments and suggestions, but bear in mind that what I’m really about to discuss is my emotional habits, not the fact that I eat more than I should, and don’t move my body often…
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Help! Suggestions needed
I’m pondering different routes into my site, one idea is to build collections of related posts. I’ve got over 3000 posts, so I’m hoping I can make better use of them. So I’m looking for suggestions, have you come across any interesting “curation” ideas? Hit me up in the comments!
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Stop posting to your blog
This is, sorta, a note for myself. I’ve spent the past few weeks redesigning my site, and with it re-thinking my approach to both this blog, and the many I enjoy reading. One thing I did was reduced the barrier to post here, simply by having this category as an ‘aside/miniblog/notes’ place for thoughts, links,…
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No human.json for me
I’ve spotted this in a couple of places over the last few weeks and find it an interesting approach. You post a bit of JSON script on your site, and then someone can ‘vouch’ that you are human if they have the required browser extensions. I think I’ve got that right. Update: I didn’t quite,…
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The Butterfly
It’s that time of year again, temperatures rise, flowers bloom, and butterflies take wing. Their erratic flutters catch the eye and we watch, trying to predict where they are heading, to guess the path they follow. An impossible maze of off beats and breezes. They have direction, as incidental as it may seem. They are…
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Happy Star Wars Day
Jack isn’t quite old enough to sit through the Star Wars movies but that day is coming —presuming I can get him out of the Marvel universe long enough, Spidey and his Amazing Friends is pretty good though!— and I do wonder what he’ll make of it. Just another old movie that Dad wants him…
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Week 18
🤷♂️ Life 📚 Read 📰 Considered 📺 Watched Not sure what else to watch next. I clicked on to For All Mankind but then remember that the last season left me a bit nonplussed. It had become a fairly standard type of story that just happened to be set in and around space. Not sure…
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A quiet day
Saturday morning, Becca’s at work, so it’s just me and Jack. He’s requested a morning in the house, he’s had a busy week so always happy to let him listen to his own body and mind and make these decisions. I’ll cut the grass later but mostly just hang out with my son. Yay!
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EUROVISION LIGHTS
I am not a fan of Eurovision, each to their own and all that, but it’s just not for me. It IS for one of my best friends, who happens to be a lighting designer (he does some of the F1 races too), and sent a link to our chat group showing the work he’s…
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4 Years
It was a great day. We gathered our nearest and dearest at Pollock House for Jack’s naming ceremony, and then sprung a surprise wedding on them at the end. Hooray! Then we had cupcakes and doughnuts whilst people hugged us and thumped us for being so sneaky! HOOORAY!! We’d both been married before, and weren’t…
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Boots on the Ground
NEW MASSIVE ATTACK TRACK! Which was released on the 16th April, that I missed because Gmail decided to throw it into my spam folder —yet another reason to ditch Gmail as it’s getting worse for stuff like this. Anyway, one of my favourite bands, in a collaboration with Tom Waits (that voice!), and it’s a…