I’m exhausted. Not just because it’s January, possibly the most depressing month of the year in the northern hemisphere. Not just because at this point it feels like it has been cold and grey for approximately 6.5 years. Not just because unlike everyone else (it seems) I didn’t take any leave over Christmas/New Year. Yes,… Continue reading The Flick of the Dragon’s tail
Tag: Work
Regrets, I’ve had a few
We all have those moments in our life that we wish we could take back. We wish we had made a different decision, walked down a different street, left words unsaid. Maybe George Michael the best when he wrote “Turn a different corner and we never would have met.” Certainly in my life there are… Continue reading Regrets, I’ve had a few
My life in Mumbai (part 2)
I was so young when I arrived in Mumbai. Not just young in years, I was naive and oblivious about the hard facts of the world. I learned a lot from the women who lived at my guesthouse. The girls at the guesthouse taught me how to walk down the street. A defensive posture was… Continue reading My life in Mumbai (part 2)
My Mumbai life (part 1)
Thirty years ago I left home. I left my home town of Brisbane, Australia. I left my job. I left everything that was familiar. I left my country for the first time to go to Mumbai on a graduate exchange program. (I left home so long ago that Mumbai was still called Bombay.) I arrived… Continue reading My Mumbai life (part 1)
I should journal more
I thought I was going to journal today, but I forgot to take my journal with me. So you poor readers will have to suffer with the small workings of my mind. Today is my third day in a row going into the office. Normally I only have to go in 50% of the time,… Continue reading I should journal more
Late summer
UK weather has been off this summer. We had a few weeks of good summer weather at the start of June and then it all got a bit sh!t. Canary Wharf pier But here we are in September and we are having a heatwave. In fact today, 7 September, may be the hottest day of… Continue reading Late summer
New year, again
There are many new years in any one calendar year. Today is another one - Nawruz or Nooruz. I’ve seen it spelt various ways. It’s an old Zoroastrian festival celebrated across the Middle East and Central Asia on the occasion of the spring equinox. It celebrates the new year on the day that winter ends… Continue reading New year, again
Happy New whatever
I have just renewed my WordPress subscription And I’m wondering why. Of all the writing I’m doing now, WordPress blogging is way down the list. I have signed up for a course called Edit Your Novel which is taking a lot of my thought and writing time. I signed up for the course despite not… Continue reading Happy New whatever
46.2022
It's been a while since I wrote one of my weekly missives. Most weeks recently I just don't have the time, the inspiration or the energy to write something entertaining (for me or for you). I know the idea is you show up, you write and that is the work. But I feel like I've… Continue reading 46.2022
Seats for lonely eaters
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
Tales from Tobhamhor 