So many of these topics seem quite simple right up to the point that you start to actually think about them in any depth. Take today’s topic. For starters I really am not a fan of ‘happy’ music. Most of what I listen to is unabashedly miserable and with good reason. It is cathartic to [...]
In some ways I think this is an even harder choice than a favourite song, given that there is relatively little music that ever really makes my insides feel enlightened and lifted up in the way those really special songs can do, but barely a day goes by without some wretched pop nobody unfurling a [...]
Yes, yes, I know I’ve been thoroughly and completely rubbish. this is the first thing that I have written in nearly a month, but lets forget about that shall we and sweep it under the carpet with a little blog challenge. I first saw this being referenced on Lis’ blog (she’s running at a fairly sedate pace [...]
One of those days today where everything has kind of floated by me in a fog of uncertainty, pausing only every once and again to squeeze out a little nugget of general unpleasantness, nothing major of course but just enough nagging little things to set the day off its axis and seem that little bit [...]
On the eve of my celebrating a full third of a century of living on this lovely green planet of ours, something excellent has happened. I have finally found myself being able to stand up and say that I am just like one of my all time heroes, Mr Chuck D. I know, I’m as [...]
It’s a hard old life. I’ve just spent the majority of my day cleaning the house top to bottom in anticipation of there being a person who doesn’t live here coming round later. Strange how you let things build up without really noticing until you realise that someone else might see them and they’re all [...]
Well that went well, don’t you think? Rather an odd week of blog posts, but I managed to put up my two first ever bits of fiction and wasn’t laughed at openly, so to all of you who kept your laughter to yourselves, thank you very kindly. To everyone who said kind things, they were [...]
Yesterday I may have been complaining about feeling like an old man, broken, decrepit and lifeless, but today I am a mirror to my seventeen year old self. I am giddy with excitement, finding it hard to concentrate on things that are probably more important. Today it’s work, back then it was A levels and [...]
The last few years have seen a dramatic reduction in my consumption of that most middle class of adventures, the music festival. Back in my teens it used to be two or three a year that I would somehow manage to attend, despite a lack of appropriate funds. They were my equivalent of a holiday, [...]
One of the things I have wrestled with most over the course of seven plus years of blogging is how much of you the person to give. You know; the real you, the one that walks around in the world, talking to people, eating sandwiches and more importantly the one that has things happen to [...]
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