Reading time: < 1 min I aspire. I desire. (I perspire). I want. But, it seems, it’s just not meant to be. Whilst I can appreciate art in many forms, place value on the productions of others, it seems that I’m just not particularly creative. Not that I can’t be creative to a certain level but I’ve long since realised…
Reading time: 2 mins Around this time last year I realised that I had already begun my resolution. Not that I do the whole New Year Resolution thing, and technically this change of attitude had already kicked in but, regardless, it became a bit of a theme for me. Largely my focus was to avoid negativity and, for the…
Reading time: 3 mins I have been converted. It started as a bit of a whim, a bit of a ‘hey, I might try that’ but it’s already blossomed into a wonderful ritual and, quite possibly, the beginning of a slightly fetishistic obsession. I’ve started reading blogs about it, watching videos about it, and with each new piece of…
Reading time: 2 mins I am having fun. This must be true because time is flying, it seems like only yesterday we were wandering round Edinburgh Zoo! Since then, we’ve had gigs, trips to London and Manchester and, all of a sudden, it’s December and Christmas looms large. Most years I’d take this week and next week to slowly…
Reading time: 3 mins What are your passions? Life continues on an upward trajectory. I am a rocket! God, I’ve lost the point of this already? Why on earth do I bother? Ahhh that’s it! Passion! No, not the bodice-ripping type from a Jackie Collins novel (is that even right?), but the type that makes you get up in…
Reading time: 2 mins About a year ago, maybe more, I started writing (sporadically) in a journal and I’m quite surprised that I’ve kept it going, even though how I use it has changed. I’ve always enjoyed the process of writing, this blog is testimony to that, but even before there was this place called the internet which I…