The New Year has just begun and article after article are sprouting up urging you to set your goals for the coming year. Sometimes they are disguised as ‘resolutions’, other times as ‘plans’ or ‘visions’ but in reality, they are all just goals. Photo by Asdrubal luna on Unsplash So you sit down and…… Continue reading If You are Setting Goals this Year, You’re Doing it Wrong.
A Spot of Gardening
This morning I ventured out into the garden for the first time this year. With a gammy knee still playing me up, there was not a lot I could do in the way of gardening. All I could do was rake up dead leaves, hoe some weeds and tidy up a couple of taller planters.…… Continue reading A Spot of Gardening
What I’ve Been Reading: Jon McGregor, Reservoir 13
links in this page are associate links on Amazon. I have just finished reading Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor. I had previously read a couple of other novels by the author, which I had enjoyed. So I was eager to give this novel a try, especially as it had won awards and…… Continue reading What I’ve Been Reading: Jon McGregor, Reservoir 13
Watching People Grow Old (not always a pleasant sight)
Photo by Michele De Paola on Unsplash Watching people you know grow old is not always a pleasant experience. It’s almost inevitable and almost certainly preferable to the alternative of seeing them die young. It strikes me, though, that there are a couple of traits which I observe and which I find particularly troubling and…… Continue reading Watching People Grow Old (not always a pleasant sight)
Today is a Great Day to Be Alive
*This post was first published on Medium in September 2017 Photo by Ed Maughan on Unsplash Today has been a day when you feel glad to be alive. I awoke quite early, though still later than usual, and witnessed the first fog of the season. I noticed how strange it was that the grey-white mist…… Continue reading Today is a Great Day to Be Alive
Photo Challenge Week 1
Self Portrait: A picture of who you are but without you in the picture. Of course, this was a tricky task. How could I take a self-portrait without myself in the image? Another problem was to make the picture tell people about me and what I am about but how could I include the camera…… Continue reading Photo Challenge Week 1
So It Starts
The year starts with both the wife and me nursing physical injuries. Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash For me, it is a gammy knee, which started back in November. For the wife, it is a bad back which we suspect may be sciatica. The doctor at first thought my problem might be a damaged meniscus…… Continue reading So It Starts
My First Disaster
After Christmas, comes Boxing Day; a day when, as a child, I used to get to play with some of the new toys I’d been given the day before. It was a day, too, when we’d visit family; most often my grandparents. I wonder though, do you recall Boxing Day 2004? Photo by João Nascimento…… Continue reading My First Disaster
When Sally met John and John met Sally. Then Along Came Ross in a Sports Car
A story of love, loving and loss.
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