Passion In Our Ordinary Lives – Wherever we are in 2025
As I sit here writing, I am listening to the London Symphony Orchestra play Carl Nielsen’s Helios overture, which is a wonderful musical experience, at least from my perspective. This is being played-out on my TV via streaming from Marquee TV. Thus, I am also looking from time to time at the musicians playing their […]
That Was The Week – Beginning 18 November 2024
Monday was a busy day for me, going first to Cardiff to see the lovely daughter. She is now on 20,000 words, and doing well with it and, most importantly, having fun with it too. Later, I went to see a huge display of Christmas lights filling the front garden of a large house. All […]
That Was The Week – Beginning 11 November 2024
At the beginning of the week, Sandy and I went to see ‘Blitz’ in the cinema, which was written and directed by Steve McQueen. It starred Saoirse Ronan as the mum, Paul Weller (from ‘The Jam’) as the grandad, and with an outstanding performance by Elliott Heffernen as the 9 year-old boy, with the addition […]
That Was The Week – Beginning 4 November 2024
I made a visit to the University of England (UWE) main campus library at the beginning of the week where I have formerly used their very quiet study area for reading and writing. On the last occasion I travelled there, it took me 40 minutes to go from my flat to be sat down in […]
The Value of Ignorance – And how it enriches my life
I would like to argue that my life is enriched and has great value as a result of my ignorance. I appreciate that this is a somewhat strange thing to say, and so I will attempt to explain how I have reached that conclusion. It is particularly strange for me to talk about the enrichment […]
That Was The Week – Beginning 28 October 2024
This was a big week for the UK, where I live, and it was quite a big week for me, personally, but on a really tiny scale for the rest of the world. Nonetheless, my day, like everyone else’s day, is made-up of tiny events, which become significant within the individual worlds in which we […]
Red Armchair – Existing as a magic portal
Here is an armchair, a Chesterfield armchair — only one — as two would not have fitted in this small space. The giant sofa did not fit through the door of the flat (apartment), never mind in the lounge/study/dining room/ extended kitchen space that really should just have been a lounge. Still, the kitchen is […]
Procrastination Busting – How to break the dam we have built
I wrote recently about planning and avoiding distractions, here, but it is not the only hurdle to overcome when we are trying to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard). Having got past one hurdle, we might come across another one that many of us have faced in the past, which is procrastination. Despite recognising […]
That Was The Week – Beginning on 7 October 2024
Every so often, I question whether I am using the best tools for the job (of writing), and none more often than when it comes to journaling. For me, a writer for wellbeing, the backbone of what I do centres around journalling. Whilst I engage in other forms of writing, this is the one that […]
Mouse and Fraser – Who will win this war?
So, here we are. I have to say that Fraser hasn’t exactly been welcoming. When I came into his apartment, I was pretty unobtrusive really, the odd nibble here and a little scurry here and there. Ok, maybe I’m not the cutest little mouse around, having been around for a while, and been in the […]