Well that’ll teach me. I’ve been supremely lax in posting anything on my blog in the last few months, but that’s not to say I haven’t been thinking about it. Actively planning to. Undertaking all the relevant parts of a blog post (writing being the main one, obviously) except that crucial last little ‘publish’ step….

Ok. So I’ve done a whole little Christmas past, present and future sequence. The past and present ones were pretty straightforward. I mean, they’re known quantities. Bit of descriptive text and chuck in a vaguely amusing anecdote – sorted. Future Christmas though, well that’s altogether more tricky. Who knows what the Christmas of the future…

There’s always a small amusing incident at some point during a family Christmas. Sometimes, of course, the amusement factor comes a little later, once the pain / embarrassment / unbearable shame has subsided. This year, happily, the amusement was pretty immediate (probably due to the safe distance between the perpetrator of the amusing incident and…

Well, Christmas is over for another year. Christmas 2019 was a particularly good vintage, as it goes, and involved much hilarity. In the course of enjoying the hilarity, I rehearsed (several times) the family story of the ‘rescued Christmas tree’. Also in the course of enjoying the hilarity, however, the family story of the ‘rescued…

Practising self care today. Well, what I’m actually doing is a few little things, mainly chores to be honest, that just need doing. Which I’m terming self care because that makes it feel more like an insta-worthy lifestyle choice than just a few chores. And technically it is self care, because no one else cares…

Just walked behind a group of students for far longer than I needed to. As in, I got so caught up in eavesdropping on their conversation that I went a really long way out of my way. I started off thinking this would make a really great blog post. So it was kind of research….

Based on products I’ve recently purchased, Amazon apparently thinks I might be interested in the following: A tin of wood varnish Nasal hair trimmers A bulk supply of loo roll Some moccasin slippers Well, algorithm fail. I’m not. But it did get me thinking. Am I a ‘type’ of person? Would a person who likes…

The big fat ginger pony had his teeth done today. Other ponies deal with this by opening their mouths and waiting politely for the dentist to finish, before closing their mouths and carrying on about their pony business. The big fat ginger pony, however, takes a different approach. His preference is to require a vet,…

I swam in the sea this week. First time since moving to live so close to it. It was really warm. Ok, so we were experiencing a major heatwave, and the heatwave has now abated, so that might be an annual event, but still. Box ticked and all that. I’ve been thinking a lot about…

Blog gaps are great for generating content. I’m spoilt for choice. I think I’ll write a little list of personal news items. Firstly because that’s a nice easy way to cover off the gap of the last few months, and secondly because it’s always nice, from a personal satisfaction perspective, to recount a few achievements…

All the standard things that everyone cites as making them feel old, make me feel old. Seeing a lot of medical professionals really hammers home the ‘doctors are looking younger and younger’ one in particular. Same with police (although I’ve had less frequent contact with that profession, just to be clear). Anyway, alongside the getting…

Well, here’s a turn up. Me. I’ve turned up again. Unexpectedly really, I’ve even surprised myself. It’s been about 9 months since my last blog post. Which I feel bound to note, confessional style. Because there has been some weird guilt hanging over me for most of those 9 months. A sort of minor nagging…