I start this week's post with a tale of locks on a bridge in Bakewell. Maybe I don't have a romantic soul (although I'm pretty sure I do) but I don't understand the point of putting locks on a bridge. Most bridges aren't particularly romantic places (industrial architecture, traffic just two things spoiling the ambiance… Continue reading Locked in, Locked out, Lucked out (14.2021)
Category: Review
Spring, sprung, Easter (13.21)
It’s been a good news week this week - I had a follow up blood test after the gloomy results from December and my results came back much improved - all my hard work with healthy eating has paid off - sugar level and cholesterol are both down just from increasing my fruit and vegetable… Continue reading Spring, sprung, Easter (13.21)
Hi ho holiday week (12.21)
Yes, it's been a week of much excitement, a whole week off work! Not that I went very far as we are still in lockdown. But it has been fun to sit in another room and look at some different walls instead of my work screens and the walls of my 'office'. Actually I did… Continue reading Hi ho holiday week (12.21)
Happy homeworking anniversary (10.21)
This week I’m celebrating the anniversary of my last day in the office. Yes, 13 March was my last day in the office before we switched to remote working “for a few weeks”. We had no idea what was coming, and in retrospect, that’s probably a good thing. I’m not really celebrating. I’m not opening… Continue reading Happy homeworking anniversary (10.21)
Surprise! (9.21)
It's the start of March! And I have held true to my promise to myself to resume running on 1st March. (The last run was 23 December) And I went running on 3rd March too! Most surprising was that I haven't lost as much 'puff' as I thought I would. I was able to do… Continue reading Surprise! (9.21)
These here are crazy times (8.21)
It's funny how things pop back into your head from time to time. Like the phrase that titles this post. It's been appropriate for pretty much the whole of the last 12 months, but it only came back into my mind this past week. It's the name of an album by Boom Crash Opera, a… Continue reading These here are crazy times (8.21)
Dark feelings, hope springs and peanuts (7.21)
A nighttime walk is good, but it’s not as good as a daytime walk. Especially if the only extended periods when you left the house during the week were during the nighttime. By the time it gets to Friday you will feel tired, inexplicably sad, depressed about all kinds of things and generally lacking enthusiasm… Continue reading Dark feelings, hope springs and peanuts (7.21)
Frozen (but don’t Let it Go) (6.21)
Yes, this week has been untypically cold for a London winter, with temperatures regularly below freezing (even during the day), necessitating me breaking out the jacket and boots I refer to as either "DefCon 1" or "Moscow measures" when we need to leave the house and go for a walk. And yes, even in this… Continue reading Frozen (but don’t Let it Go) (6.21)
Hints of spring; yet more winter (5.21)
This week I had my performance appraisal. It went well. My main concern was that when the discussion started, I looked out the window and saw a bee stuck in a spider’s web right in my eyeline, struggling to get itself free. And while I’m trying to say good things about what I did last… Continue reading Hints of spring; yet more winter (5.21)
Money, musicals and chess (4.21)
It must be great to be super-rich, mustn't it? I mean apart from the private jets, the champagne-and-caviar lifestyle, never having to clean the bathtub ever again, it's the security of knowing that even in a global pandemic, when a large part of the world is tumbling into poverty and uncertainty, your own personal bubble… Continue reading Money, musicals and chess (4.21)
