Category Archives: personal blog

The office has been driving me up the wall. I hate to think what it has been doing to Elayne, and she doesn’t have to come in here unless it’s to get something off the printer. It’s not often she says something about it, but I see the look she gives me if we areContinue reading “2088 – It’s back!”

I think it is onne of those days where movement, or lack of it has been a priority. I’ve spent most of the day in the office, apart from the odd interval like lunch and tea, oh and 20 minutes in the garden chair with a good magnum ice lolly. I’ve managed to reduce theContinue reading “2086 – A very relaxed Saturday”

I do Friday afternoons in a local charity shop. If I am completely honest, the main reason why I volunteered is because i was upset that the British Heart Foundation (BHF) shop in the high street had closed. The BHF had by far the best 2nd hand. book section of all of the charity shopsContinue reading “2085 – Friday, in the shop”

There is no point in my stressing about it. I guess the word is “Spontaneous”. the Facebook walks arise from the immediate experience. It provides the material for the post. If I don’t walk, no material, no Facebook post. It sounds a bit blunt, but it’s the way my brain works I’m afraid. These blogContinue reading “2084 – No Walk – No Facebook”

The solar eclipse wasn’t total in the UK. The picture above was taken at around 19:12 hours local time, here in Gosport. The coverage was supposed to be around 93% I don’t think this is far off it. Whilst I didn’t see first bite, I did catch early engagement. Knowing what was happening, how theContinue reading “2083 – 12 August Solar Eclipse”

If you don’t know Larry Niven’s work, it might seem strange to link a science fiction author to a nice, but innocuous plant like a sunflower. In his “Known Space’” series of stores, the kind of sunflowers he writes about are not the cute innocent plants that we know.  Instead, their mirror like surfaces reflectContinue reading “2082 – Larry Niven & Sunflowers”