While catching up on the various thoughts of those I follow on Facebook, LiveJournal, Wordpress, Posterous and Tumblr early this morning (yes, I am mad), I chanced upon a really interesting post on Tumblr.
The basic premise; that as you get older, not only do you have fewer friends, but that this is both natural and [...]
It’s mid afternoon on Saturday and I’m pretty much wiped out. Today was the day of the primary school Christmas Bazaar – and Wendy was roped in to creating and helping run Santa’s Grotto. Yep – you got it right; in the middle of me being away 4 days a week, we have been roped [...]
Visitors to our house are invariably astounded at the plethora of books that surround them – and probably make snap judgements about us, or the “kind of person” we are by the presence of so much literature.
I have a guilty secret.
Since ceasing the daily commute into and out of London, I have hardly picked up [...]
Yesterday morning I woke at 6am to the sound of our resident air raid siren, otherwise known as “Little Miss Five”.
After listening for a few moments to her insane babble intended to wake her sisters, I fell back into a deep sleep, and embarked on several hours of adventure that (in reality) took only minutes.
How [...]
What is it about Fridays? Where does our energy and enthusiasm go?
I was going to write a long post filled with bitterness, complaints, and general curmudgeonly pearls of spite. You might even call it “foaming invective”. Mid-rant, I realised that nobody would be at all interested in listening to my protestations, so I hit the [...]
You find me on arrival home from a walk into town – an eleventh hour dash to procure food for dinner – and a hearing of our eldest daughter reading from a book of her teacher’s choosing.
These few minutes are grabbed in passing. A moment of calm delimiting the mayhem of the day; a day [...]
I sometimes envy the single guys at work – that can roll out of bed with a finely crafted routine ahead of them to leave the house with seconds to spare beyond which they would be late for work. My morning typically starts an hour before I leave the house, of which ten minutes are [...]
You’re probably wondering what on earth “Thunking” means. As far as I am aware, it comes from computer science – and is often used to describe the process of laboriously going through something, doing something mundane. It describes my life pretty well at the moment.
I can’t remember a time when I shared less in my [...]
There was a time when I would find a quiet hour to sit at the computer and write. The keyboard served as a conduit between mind and computer, translating the days thoughts, experiences and frustrations into something of interest for the wider world.
The quiet hour grows rare, as do the chances to scribble passing thoughts [...]
Another night down, another night closer to paying for our new car, and another night of churning out illustrations that will eventually grace a corporate website.
For the first time since I have been freelancing, I was approached today by a possible client on the strength of my portfolio. To say I am pleased is an [...]
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