What’s in a word?

There are a few that have dominated my life. Loneliness seems to be writ pretty large across many, many of my waking moments. Love - well, that's one that causes me no end of difficulty and confusion. But today's post is brought to you by the word "goodbye" and the number... fuck knows - a …

In the balance…

Hello, anyone still out there? I'm still in here... locked down, locked in. Never knowing whether I am looking out on a world of endless opportunity or a dead end. Apparently quite a lot of you are, if not exactly back to normal, tiptoeing around what currently passes for normal and having a small measure …

I’m a stranger here myself

I'm in quite a good place at the moment. OK - that's enough for this time, see you soon. Oh, alright, here's a little bit more. Sometimes, when I'm not in the mood for a whole post - recently this has been quite a lot given my increasing mastery of idleness - if a little …

Post within a Post – an aside

...seems I have the gift of second sight! All the way back on May 16th I wrote: Don't sit around waiting for a mass societal shift; don't underestimate the strength of feeling among those for whom the "old normal" was just fine, thanks very much. The change many of us are idly dreaming about will …

Love in the Time of Covid-19

No one's used this yet, right? What? They have? How many of them have even read Gabriel Garcia Marquez? Oh well, once more won't do any harm will it? Generally speaking, a top tip for the budding scribbler is to always "write about what you know." Well, I'm gonna go out on a bit of …

For once, calm*not becalmed…

*caveat: at the time of writing Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath, nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean.Samuel Taylor Coleridge Okay, so I've kinda lost the plot the last couple of days. Fallen out of any semblance of routine or structure to my day in a not devil …

Pause for (ideally very little) thought…

Bet you thought I'd forgotten about you. Reckon you must see that a lot: the initial burst of enthusiasm; daily posts. On rare occasions you might even think, "Christ, this one looks like they might have something to say. But all too often you are let down. No fireworks, it just kinda fades away; peters …

Loss for words, words for Loss

I'd thought today was going to be pretty easy, after all there's not much to worry about right now. Well yes, there is that global health crisis threatening the fabric of society as we know it but at the moment that doesn't really seem my concern. Anyway, I'm doing my bit: I'm sitting here, on …

That was the day that was…

April 5th I told you they were coming, didn't I? First through the door was the unconditional love, moving at speed and with no little force, throwing itself into my arms. The footballs came too. The dolls had a day off. There were games; there was fun; there were tantrums (not all of them mine). …

Let’s start at the very beginning…

...a very good place to start, apparently. No, forget that.... err... It's very hard to know where to start this... story? - no, that's not it... account – that'll do. You know, you kinda want to identify a moment... but instead I've decided to write from now. We can try and work out where it …