Life's about experiences. These are mine.
20 months ago I told my business partner that I intended to retire at the end of August 2022. This must have come as a shock to him but I’d been building up to it for a while. During the Covid pandemic Helen came in to see me and said that she had decided to …
This is the fourth summary of my year that I have done (you can read 2018, 2019 and 2020‘s reports) and, for reasons I will outline below, this year is very much incomplete. Nevertheless it is still worth taking time to assess the year. Data for this report has as ever been taken from a …
As I write this a lot of hot air is being expelled at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) taking place in Glasgow, Scotland. This is where world leaders, and I use that term loosely, get together to try and agree a plan to reduce the temperature the world is warming by and save humanity. …
I’m on lots of social media platforms including the usual suspects: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and a few oddities such as Clubhouse, Reddit, TikTok and even Ello. In the past I would have habitually turned to Facebook but as their policies seem intent on mining me for whatever they can get from me I …
I think it’s fair to say that my tolerance for staying at home is probably higher than most others but even I have my limits. And I am beginning reach the end of mine now. Lockdown hasn’t been as much as a shock to me as it must have been for many others as I …
I got a notification today that a concert I had booked for September 2021 had been moved (for a second time) to April 2022. This both perplexed and depressed me in equal measures. It is just about a year since the UK entered the first lockdown. At that point we really didn’t know what to …
Well what a year that was! Not quite the one I was expecting to have that’s for sure. We didn’t get to go on the holidays we had planned but we got to see a lot more of our granddaughter which was more than adequate compensation. For me the adjustment due to the pandemic wasn’t …
When junior school children go back to the classroom in September (assuming that they do) I have no doubt that up and down the country teachers will be getting their pupils to write the “what I did during my lockdown” essay. This being a variant on the “what I did on my holidays” essay which …
I started to write this post a couple of months ago and then ran out of steam as Covid started to take control – thankfully not to me but the country and wider world as a whole. I revisited the post again as next week we were supposed to be going on holiday and while …