Being such a heavy sleeper, I very rarely have those kinds of subconscious hallucinations you regular people call dreams. You know the ones, where you’re walking down a familiar road with someone from your past you don’t see anymore. You know you don’t see them anymore because you’ve conjured up a different face for them,... Continue Reading →

What made it so difficult to keep spouting off here on an unwavering weekly basis (Christmases excluded) was the fact that there was seemingly never anything new to write about. New experiences are getting harder to come by as we become set in our ways. Case in point, I’ve had an extra week to come... Continue Reading →

Even at the time, I knew it was foolish to excitedly look forward to the annual Christmas and New Year break. That’s not because it was bad or I didn’t enjoy it, but simply because it was so fleeting. Throughout December, I couldn’t help but count down the days, despite the more logical and rational... Continue Reading →

People may come and people may go, but what a precious few should still remain. I’m sure that’s like a famous quote or something. And even if it’s not, it sounds enough like it so in the absence of all reasonable evidence (which, as it happens, is probably easily obtained by Google anyway) that’s I’m... Continue Reading →

It’s a wonder that people living nearer the Arctic Circle can get up of a morning in winter. Iceland, Northern Scandinavia and I presume parts of Canada end up with fewer hours of daylight than we do in the UK, and yet I still struggle to drag myself out of bed when the sun’s still... Continue Reading →

It’s actually quite refreshing not keeping up to date with the news. By detaching oneself from the doom and gloom stories that are so much bigger than you or I can handle or do anything about, one can feel as though a bit of a weight has been taken off one’s mind. The way I... Continue Reading →

Tiredness is starting to set in. I’m tired these days. I’m tired when I go to sleep. I’m tired when I wake up. I’m tired at various points throughout the day. I’m tired of it being almost constantly dark outside. I’m tired of spending what little daylight we have sitting at a computer screen. I’m... Continue Reading →

Another week, another rushed attempt at producing something of any meaning. Perhaps I’ll make a resolution in January to pay more attention to the personal written shit I do. Or maybe it’ll be to cut down on the regularity of this so I don’t end up feeling like a complete twat every week when I... Continue Reading →

Coming up with this stuff is difficult. Like, right now, I’m typing with no real sense of direction, no subject matter and (to be honest) no real drive to continue beyond the end of this sentence. And yet we soldier on because, well, why, exactly? Because I’m very mean to myself and I make myself... Continue Reading →

When I look back over these things in the many years I hope to come, I imagine I’ll find myself mystified at the topics my younger self has chosen to focus on in the past. Picture it: a 70-something year old lonely idiot looking back on blog posts he did when he was in his... Continue Reading →