Year: 2020

This past week, other than my duties which I won’t drone on about, I cleaned up my office, demolished my drawing “studio”, and shoved my TV in its place thinking that I need to start to relax a little more than I do. My plan was to find a game (hopefully a little old so […]

I’m a bit hyper-alert to looming trouble at the moment, so a minor event this morning escalated to me on the phone trying to get a consultation with the doctor. In fairness to me, we probably needed it and it does no harm to have them keep an eye on my mum given her ongoing […]

Had a day of unexpected bureaucratic mither (my favourite northern word), which is now resolved but was a distraction from what I intended on doing, writing a proper full-on blog post. It means I haven’t got time, but I’ll push on anyway. People’s favourite Prime Minister-in-waiting, Rishi Sunak, has announced more “help” for the self-employed […]

Slightly lazy today by which I mean I’ve not been as crazy busy as I’ve been over the past few days. I’m hoping that things are settling down but it’s really never certain. Treating every day as it comes. All I do know is that I’ve not been getting the peace and quiet that I […]

I’m here to declare victory over the assorted clutter. Not that the stuff is completely vanquished as much as stacked neatly in various corners. Much of it is the kind of stuff I know I should throw away but, at the same time, wonder if I might need it. For example, I have a dock […]

Double meaning of today’s blog post. Yes, I’m back to work but I’ve also developed a bad back. I thought it was the kind of bad back you get for sitting around too long, so after I’d finished writing an article this morning (not sure if it will appear), I thought I’d rearrange my room. […]

Every night I think I’ll get to bed early, perhaps even finish the Don Winslow which, I admit, is now turning into a struggle. Lately, I’ve been managing neither. US news always breaks late and I end up staying up to watch it, avoiding the book which, frankly, in its last 25% details constant atrocities […]

Thank Frieda it’s Friday. It has been a very long week; a whole seven days since my mum’s neck began to cause problems. Today, I thought I’d write but having read a couple of things to drive me slightly loopy with frustration, I think I’ll have a day with my nose buried in a book. […]

It’s been five crazily difficult days and today my ambition to come bouncing back to my usual work fell a bit flat. I’m just knackered and want to do something that helps me relax. I might draw a cartoon. I also want to find the next fiction I’ll read, preferably sci-fi. Last night, I finished […]

Okay, the title is a bit clickbaitish. There’s nothing good to say about sheltering. We need rid of it and we need rid of it as soon as barely-trained medical practitioners are ready to stick ruddy big needles in my arm/neck/buttock. Yet, as I’ve written so many times over the past months, some good has […]