Seven Days In

Today is Samhain the Gaelic festival ( wiki here ) that takes us into the "darker half" of the year. Traditionally, it is cel...

I think tonight I will put together a chart of all the drinks mentioned in my #Oktoberfest sequence. Normally when I do things like thi...

This morning I had to replenish my diabetes and blood pressure tablets from my stash, but every cardboard pack seemed absolutely super ...

Life is much easier if you have a plan and everything falls into place. It is seldom that that happens especially for me, although toda...

Over the weekend I was speaking to someone about living in the wilds with no neighbours for miles and said that's great in some way...

I was thinking of using "Milkshake" by Kelis for this #Oktoberfest sequence post but then remembered "Milk" by Garb...

A weird thing , last night I switched my phone (a Google Pixel ) off and put it on charge. It is always good to switch the off at some ...

LAst night I looked down at my feet and noticed one of my socks was blue and one was green. It's just the toe and heel and one is a...

Today I really didn't feel like anything to eat, but I do make a point of getting out of the office at lunchtime. It's not good...

I've just woken up for a sort of weir dream. My friend the excellent comedian John Scott was emailing me songs from the new Nick ...

Sometimes solutions to problems are not always what you want them to be, but they are always what you need them to be, otherwise they w...

Several times over the last year or two or maybe even longer I've been hit by a weird hunger. Normally when you are hungry you need...

I keep toying with the idea of doing a one or two word blog post just to see if anyone notices or not as they are all robots (I know th...

After "Apricot Brandy" by Rhinoceros in #Oktoberfest that prompted me to remember "Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)"...

Today is grey and rainy. It's strange you can spell grey as gray which as far as I know means exactly the same thing, so why have t...

What is philosophy? I've never really thought apart from that fact that it's something that clever and intelligent people do so...

I'm not exactly sure why but yesterday I made two walks without thinking and without noticing that I had made them physically. One ...

Well I've finished chapter one of "The Secret Commonwealth" and there's already been a murder, and I doubt that will ...

Yesterday I sort of didn't read, I had finished the 400 page "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins which I have passed on...