observing a day of rest
After a few days of doing heavy gardening work - lots of digging, pulling, lifting, and clearing up the waste...
Generally mucking about.
Sometimes not.
Occasionally entertaining.
Often not.
Sometimes not.
Occasionally entertaining.
Often not.
existence
Approximately three people have probably noticed that I have not blogged for a long while, although I expect that in...
a city break
My wife has left me, but it is only for a week while she takes in some European culture in...
feeling better? I don't know yet.
It's been a week since my cardioversion procedure, but I'm still not in a position to say whether or not...
575 - clocks
The clocks are changed this weekend in the UK, springing by an hour forwards to BST - British Summer Time....
avatar image
You will have noticed the avatar image that I use to identify scribblans, both here and in many other places...
new things
Scribblanity is on Scribbles, a simpler blogging platform - certainly simpler than I was used to with the mind-boggling and...
recovery
I am alive and back. (See last post for where I went, if you want to catch up). I am...
a heart-stopping moment
Sitting here this morning in waiting mode. A bit in the limbo department. A liminal space between before-the-procedure (been a...
get forensic on their ass
The landline phone in my office rang, and when I answered it wasn't my Mum. This was probably going to...
no spoons here
This morning I had a horrible feeling of heaviness to my body and a slowness in my mind when I...
one and a quarter milligrams better
A brief update for any new readers. A sort of 'Previously, on scribblanity...', followed by the current situation. It may...
575: hunt
I call three line verses which just follow the traditional 5-7-5 syllable format simply 575. Although this type of poem...
lightweight
I'm now using the Scribbles platform to do my blogging, with its much simpler interface for both readers and writers...
introspection
I have had what you might call a quiet period with this blogging lark. A lot of the motivation...
not barcode
My wife was returning a parcel via the company Evri. Not our choice, they were specified by the company that...
the goldilocks blogging platform?
Like many newcomers to the fediverse, I started with a Mastodon account in November 2022. Possibly unlike many fediverse users,...
fiction: wake up
Brain: Come on, wake up! Me: (groggily) Eh? Brain: Come on... time to wake up. Me: (looks at clock) Aww,...
fiction: man on a bench
I set myself a bit of a challenge. I gave myself an hour to write a flash fiction 'live' as...
I'll order a little box of screws online...
Inevitably, ordering anything online will result a flurry of Inbox spam of epic proportions. Even for just a box of...