I’m not sure how the conversation started this morning, but somehow or another I fell into free falling free associating and swapping stories with one of my ladies about crazy people we’d had as mutual acquaintances almost 25 years ago. We laughed ourselves giddy. The other passengers were quiet and I wondered if our noise […]

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Mostly I stay out of politics or topics likely to turn political… Much to the horror of most people I know, I don’t vote. Yes, I know I have a right to vote, a right that’s been hard won by others but I see it as a right to choose to vote. I see politicians… […]

Read More A Darwin Double Pounder

Procrastination is the thief of time Edward Young (1683-1765) Now there’s some words I’ve had levelled at me many times… Ok, so it doesn’t help when people ask me what I’ve been doing all day and I say “nothing…”. I like doing ‘nothing’… Though oddly, as Mr S remarked yesterday, there’s an awful lot of […]

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Today, the weather changed… I love the sun, the relentless sun,not so much, so I felt happy to feel the rain again, to breathe in cooler air, and to set my hair free, instead of having it squished down under my wide brimmed hat that keeps the glare out of my eyes so I can […]

Read More Parking Cars

Yesterday, finally after a week and a half of lockdown related delays, I got to go and collect my new bike. About a year ago, I was driving… Radio on 12, sun blazing, and me flying through the countryside in the old work car with blacked out windows. I loved that car and the anonymity […]

Read More Saddled Up

I came across this weeks ago and I’m just randomly finding myself still laughing at it… I guess it just has always amused me when self appointed experts don’t realise they’re in the same room as actual experts… I’ve not trawled the rest of the thread but I’m guessing Stephen King was classy enough to […]

Read More Grannies & Eggs

One of the things or is it two of the things? Hmmm… Let’s go with something. Something I’ve noticed during lockdown is that people use phones less and ask questions more. I guess phones are pretty dull when everybody’s plans for the weekend are ‘staying in’. That’s not a lot of planning going on and […]

Read More Does He Exist?

Today, I feel proper sad… I sit in Sheffield, outside student halls waiting for number 2 to collect the rest of her belongings. I’d managed to bring her home hours before lockdown began. I’d asked her if she’d gotten everything and she said she had. By everything, she thought I meant all that she’d need […]

Read More A Silence Not Golden