I spent a bit of time about a week ago, dissecting a passion fruit seed pod. Gilbert dissects a bird and finds eggs forming and food in its crop. I don’t think I could dissect a bird. I can remember one Rural Studies lesson at school where the teacher was going to dissect a rabbit.Continue reading “2073 – Letter to Steve XXIV”
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2072 – Put yourself out there
i’ve beeen going on a fair bit recently about vlogging, you might reasonably ask why? There is a youtuber, Rob the Maritimer, click his name to see his channel. Rob has set up a community, called Creators Cove, and issued a challenge to his 117,000 followers. Over a period of four weeks, issue three “longContinue reading “2072 – Put yourself out there”
2070 Messing around
Those passion fruits look almost good enough to eat, don’t they? I won’t of course, but I am keeping an eye on them, and if they start to swell or drop, I’ll have another one to disect. Next year, I want to watch the whole process from budding – I missed that bit this year.Continue reading “2070 Messing around”
2058 – In the shop
I volunteer, normally on a Friday afternoon, in a local charity shop. I got asked if I would do today, Saturday, as well. I said yes to help out (I don’t know how to say that without making me sound noble for doing that), but it’s not. I made it quite clear that my offeringContinue reading “2058 – In the shop”
2053 – The Retirement Plan
It’s 6 months and 11 days since I retired. Before retiring, I did what I like to do, and that is draft a retirement plan. I think at the 6-month point it’s reasonable to have a review, and do the usual thing of looking at what has and hasn’t gone well. I think what I’llContinue reading “2053 – The Retirement Plan”
2052 – Letter to Steve XXI – Perhaps some introspection?
Dear Steve The mistake that I have made with tonight’s Letter to Steve is that I have not done very much with it, after a rather intense period of conversing with my assistant on Monday. We had quite a wide-ranging discussion, starting mostly with how I discovered Gilbert White. Summarised: driving north on theContinue reading “2052 – Letter to Steve XXI – Perhaps some introspection?”
2046 – About The Letters to Steve
This is the story of how I discovered Gilbert White. Because of my work, we moved from Cambridgeshire to Gosport. Elayne’s family live in South London. The easiest route to visit them is to travel north on the A3. Just to the north of Petersfield is the only roundabout on the A3 outside the M25.Continue reading “2046 – About The Letters to Steve”
2008 – An unusual Day
On Monday, I suggested to Elayne that I was thinking that it might be interesting to volunteer to work in a charity shop. I was thinking that I would later in the year, say around late September. Time to give us both a chance to get used to the idea. Elayne went and did herContinue reading “2008 – An unusual Day”
2002 – Writers Flood?
What’s the opposite of writer’s block, where you freeze because you can’t think of anything to write about? Perhaps Writers Flood? You might think the opposite is, well…just write as normal. But, what if there is so much going through your brain that you can’t make up your mind what to write about? In aContinue reading “2002 – Writers Flood?”
1975 – A day in the office
If I’m not in a rush in the morning, I like to laze a little while and read. I am trying to wean myself off picking up the iPad or phone and going straight to the news or my emails, or even X or TikTok. I just want to relax in my own little universeContinue reading “1975 – A day in the office”
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