My new office cafeteria has a number of high bench seats that face the windows. Here you can sit with your back to the cafeteria and look out at the view. But I can’t help thinking how these were labelled in early pictures of the new building: seats for lonely eaters. It was probably a… Continue reading Seats for lonely eaters
Tag: Food
Gruntled and Gormful (18.22)
Wordplay Isn't the English language a funny thing? We were discussing this week the idea of being gormless. It's one of those anti-words that doesn't really have a postive version. You can be gormless but not gormful. Why is that? Why does gormless persist as a word but gormful doesn't? And what it gorm? But… Continue reading Gruntled and Gormful (18.22)
Not a great start to the year (1.2021)
I can’t say I like this year much more than last year so far. All the shitty stuff that was with us last year did not disappear with the clocks chiming midnight on 31 December. In fact some things are getting worse - Covid, the political situation in the USA, my weight. Ok, maybe it’s… Continue reading Not a great start to the year (1.2021)
Last week, this week, sorry I’m late (42.20)
I’m a little bit late catching up on last week. I was on holiday, and it took me a little longer to get my thoughts in order when I got home. This ad is old news now; I think they have been pulled when public reaction went so strongly against them. It’s so wrong in… Continue reading Last week, this week, sorry I’m late (42.20)
37.2020 – saying goodbye
I'm still not prepared to admit summer is over - certainly the weekend weather was more summer-like than autumnal - but this week there were quite a few things to which we have to say goodbye. Including, it seems, to group gatherings, as the Covid19 clouds are gathering on the horizon and we are mentally… Continue reading 37.2020 – saying goodbye
This week 23.2020
It was almost a year ago I made the decision that something had to change. I felt stuck in my job, in my life, in general. I needed to shake myself out of this rut and so set myself a target - a long term target to change some things in my life. Twenty-four months… Continue reading This week 23.2020
The longest week (13/2020)
I can't believe we are already 1/4 through the year. It feels like these last few weeks have been several months. Since the lockdown began, days feel like weeks, weeks like months. 2020 is going to be a very long year. This week I have been Strugling with yoga. I signed up for a month… Continue reading The longest week (13/2020)
This week (6/20)
This week I have been feeling: Disappointed and frustrated. I spent a lot of time reading through project documents at work recently, making comments and adjustments that I thought would be helpful to the people who were preparing these documents. (And I will add here that I try to be specific and helpful in my… Continue reading This week (6/20)
Mixed messages
Do you ever get sick of being given two sets of advice that are directly in opposition? Take care in the sun, too much sun exposure ages you and worse, can give you skin cancer; but deal with your vitamin D deficiency by getting out into the sun for at least 15 minutes every day.… Continue reading Mixed messages
(Mostly) meat free January
So here we are at the end of January, and having just been through a month of (mostly) plant based eating. And let's face it, that is how the majority of the world's population eats all the time, and if we are to sustain the human race, it's how all of us should eat all… Continue reading (Mostly) meat free January
Tales from Tobhamhor 