Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 14th April 2014 15 Apr 201414 Apr 2014 That's All Folks Sorry - this is a very short this week post. I'm busy innit? Well, busy and already back to a state of extreme stress and weariness -…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 7th April 2014 7 Apr 20147 Apr 2014 Sweet Sweet Sleep I've spent most of the last week catching up with sleep and relaxation. I've done very little else, which in this rare case is actually a good…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 13th January 2014 13 Jan 201413 Jan 2014 The Week Past So, it turns out that going out for 4 of the five working nights of the first week back at work after Christmas is a little tiring.…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 6th January 2014 6 Jan 20142 Apr 2014 No More Christmas So I must return to work tomorrow. This brings a sadness upon me. I haven't done a huge amount with my fortnight off, but I suppose that…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Wednesday 1st January 2014 1 Jan 20141 Jan 2014 Egad, The Year Is Upon Us I love Christmas, and last year's was very lovely indeed. We met our desired aim of spending short but intense periods with friends and…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 23rd December 2013 24 Dec 201324 Dec 2013 A Day And A Night Until Christmas I am thrilled to have finally finished work for the festive season - it's taken ages and no time at all to get…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 16th December 2013 16 Dec 201315 Dec 2013 Skip Skipping into Wonderful Winter It is of course, mostly raining and drizzly. Well, I think it is. We didn't see daylight today having gotten up late with mild hangover…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 9th December 2013 10 Dec 201310 Dec 2013 Christmas Time, Whiskey and Rhymes Despite my previous fears about not having seen any pied wagtails, my tree-acquiring shenanigans caused me to almost run one of the tiny clockwork creatures…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 2nd December 2013 3 Dec 20133 Dec 2013 Do They Know It's December? Holy frikkin' tinsel everyone, it has become December. I haven't done any Christmas shopping yet... surely people just want to be thought of fondly and…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 25th November 2013 25 Nov 201324 Nov 2013 Slow Motion Acceleration The run up to Christmas always feels really strange - it skips from September to a month from Christmas Eve with alarming fluidity. Maybe it's just that…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 18th November 2013 18 Nov 201317 Nov 2013 Sad Television The main drama in my life this week has been the death of our BT Vision box. It had been titting about with failing to record or recording…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 11th November 2013 13 Nov 20132 Apr 2014 It's Time To Get The After Eights In Seems Christmas is a-coming. We've been poring over the glut of Christmas catalogues spilling out of shop doors and thrust (with astonishing…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 4th November 2013 5 Nov 20132 Apr 2014 Autumn's Fallen It's been a nice quiet week, followed by a nice quiet weekend of getting some sleep and not doing very much. I have enjoyed it! Mainly I've been…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 28th October 2013 28 Oct 20132 Apr 2014 So All Back To Normal Then? Well, no not really. Last week still felt very much as if it was about Colin. Obviously there was the funeral and memorial service…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 21st October 2013 21 Oct 20132 Apr 2014 The Times They Are A-Changing For some reason the classic song by that guy who can't really sing has been playing in my head quite a lot this week. Bob…
Assorted Ramblings… This Week, Monday 14th October 2013 14 Oct 201314 Oct 2013 A Blur of Days If I thought the weekend before last took forever, this last week has taken at least a month to go past. I can remember days occurring,…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Tuesday 8th October 2013 8 Oct 20138 Oct 2013 Is This Week Really Not Over Yet? It already feels like weeks since we found out that Colin had gone missing; in fact it's only been five days. That compression…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 30th September 2013 30 Sep 2013 It's A Needlessly Exhausting Life I'm not entirely sure how I've just slept for twelve hours; it's a good job I'd taken the day off work... I didn't really take…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 16th September 2013 16 Sep 201315 Sep 2013 A Whirlwind of Terror Alright, that's a slight exaggeration. Last week was, although relatively quiet, very busy at work attempting to grasp new systems by their hair and slam them…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 9th September 2013 9 Sep 2013 I'm Late I'm Late But I am not, of course, pregnant. This appears to be a blessing, though the superficial benefits of having a few months off work do occasionally…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 2nd September 2013 2 Sep 20131 Sep 2013 There's No Business Like Show Business I have no idea why I put that as the title save that it bounced through my head as I put finger to key,…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 26th August 2013 26 Aug 201326 Aug 2013 A Very Pleasant Bank Holiday Weekend The days of the week are whipping past with indecent haste, but at least that spurs us on to evening time and the weekend.…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 19th August 2013 19 Aug 201319 Aug 2013 Time for a nap. There are a whole bunch of fun activities I've utterly failed to document of late; I apologise to you o great internet for depriving you of…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 12th August 2013 12 Aug 201311 Aug 2013 It's No Longer My Birthday! So I shall certainly be weeping. Ten days off has also gone by with terrifying speed. I have not done a great deal with it...…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 5th August 2013 5 Aug 20134 Aug 2013 It's My Birthday! And I'll cry if I want to... It's okay, there's no cause for tears. I'm only turning 35, so it's just half of my likely 70 years…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 29th July 2013 29 Jul 201328 Jul 2013 An Exhaustingly Grand WeekI knew last week was going to be wearing, I just didn't realise how much. The day times were filled with running around answering questions, figuring stuff…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 22nd July 2013 22 Jul 201321 Jul 2013 Glorious Anti-Climax. At the moment of writing this I'm filled with a greying, bland sense of disappointment. Today (Sunday) ought to have been the culmination of literally months of work,…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 15th July 2013 15 Jul 2013 Miraculous Avoidance of Sun Stroke. Like any Englishman worth his beaded perspiration I am still complaining about the weather. This heat is unnatural, energy sapping and brain-wooglifying. I have been…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 8th July 2013 8 Jul 20138 Jul 2013 Oh god the sun - it burns!. It's like a fire in the damned sky. I am of course the only person I know complaining about the weather. Apparently it…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 1st July 2013 1 Jul 20137 Jul 2013 Welcome to July. July? How on earth can it be July now? I'm sure it was April last week. Maybe it's an aspect of getting older but (my remaining) time…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 24th June 2013 24 Jun 20132 Jul 2013 Singing On The Edge Of Sun. I are going bonkizz. I'm writing this while at work, during a brief gap between crises. Sadly this will necessarily be rather abbreviated -…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 17th June 2013 17 Jun 20132 Jul 2013 I Believe My Soul Is Dying. Agah! Despite the sleep I'm getting I appear to be exhausted. Today it's from overdosing on family (in the nicest possible way) - I'm…
Assorted Ramblings… This week, Monday 10th June 2013 10 Jun 20132 Jul 2013 Hyper Lazy Beast Go! I like three day weekends – I achieve no more than I would during a two day weekend so technically I waste more time than usual,…
