Do you sometimes put things off because the mammoth task standing before you (physically or metaphorically) is just too much of a burden and it is far easier to leave things alone? As human beings, we are designed to take the easier option. The path of least resistance. As I recall to my colleague on […]
Keep On Running
It is almost seven months since I last posted an entry and I feel that my readers are well overdue an update. I have had a few posts sitting in draft status waiting to be finished, but never getting the required runway to complete, edit, review and subsequently pull the trigger and publish! While I […]
Bring on Whamaggadon
What you, dearest reader, do not know is I rarely blog live (or as soon as possible after the event). Actually I never blog during the event, perhaps in the future, an opportunity shall present itself. Yet, as usual I digress from my main narrative. Being obsessive about the closure of any given story, I […]
Legacy
My Kind Of Town
Can a single location have a major influence on your life? Perhaps your hometown or your place of birth? Or where your parents were born or where you grew up? Where you spent your formative years during the summer exploring, discovering, living a relatively carefree existence. It is a strange fact that the English county […]
In The Room Where It Happens
Fate would have it that a mere few hours after watching Hamilton in the West End, I would be jumping onto a flight to the Land of the Free and Home of The Brave. At times I have to pinch myself that I am just an extraordinarily lucky and therefore, forever humble human being. I […]
Sixty Days
An absence of one thousand, four hundred and forty hours during which I have not posted an entry. The start of a new year but until this evening, no new ramblings from yours truly. There are multiple reasons why but none worth releasing out into the public domain. As usual, after the Christmas break, we […]
No Broadband, No Problem
People regularly ask me why I have a NAS (affectionately known as Dagobah) with a treasure trove of media. My response always begins, “What if the internet went down?” They expect me to be part of the Streaming Generation with the always-on high-speed internet connection. Now of course I am, I have Spotify and Netflix […]
At Times Lacking Purpose
Why did I, fifteen years ago start a blog? A valid question. The blog grew organically out of the need to post updates about my personal website. I switched from posting rather limited sentences on which content had been updated to rambling on about my life at large. Looking back it was a way to […]
The Woman Next Door
It is not every day you get a letter from the sitting Prime Minister. I suppose it does help that her constituency is next door and I drive across the boundary each working day. A couple of words of advice to her well-drilled campaign team. Firstly I expect the Conservatives to be better informed to […]