Month: June 2015

Wake up, Jones

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Hi, To bother, or not to bother? That is the question. I’m not fully sure how to start today’s post and after two restarts, four paragraphs and watching a video with the line (below), I’m still no closer to paydirt…. I guess, it’s a combination of work stress and summer. I’m not great in hot weather. I’d like to think the odd Jones family bio-chemistry of Scots and distant Dutch blood, does not warm well. Heh, perhaps like UHT left out, I go a bit sour 😉   I seem to be drifting at the moment. Running through the cycle of wake, eat, school run, work, eat, work, home, eat, bedtimes, TV, sleep. I have little energy or interest, only […]

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Kill it with fire!

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Hi, How’s things? The week I’ve had, work-wise, it’s not been great, mainly very frustrating. But the main thing is I get paid, it’s in the past and it’s the weekend. The vagaries of the events are such, that I wonder how we managed to master fire, let alone cross the oceans and get people on the moon.  I’m sure that come the Asteroid Apocalypse, there will be three groups of people: Some folk already space, trying to help the rest of us. Some folk making it to the spaceplane / survival vault with a few minutes to spare A group of people arguing over what colour the Word template heading should be. They’ll pause for coffee and biscuits. Comment […]

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The light and the dark of memories

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Hi,   2015 After a month away from fabulousness (a word so fab, it’s not in my phone’s dictionary), a night out to Chams was just what I needed. Generally, I don’t mind a long stay on Planet Drab, but it’s good to get away and be all of yourself, once in a while. Anyhoo, it was edging to the wrong side of warm, by the end of the night, but, we have to suffer for our art, do we not? It being summer, we had our party and everyone had chipped in, bringing plenty of snacks, cakes and drinks. I should thank Val for her photographic talents under the duress of balmy, summer nights. Those of you of middling […]

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Just a statistic

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Hi, Picture, if you will, a long copse of trees, a small car park and cool blue skies. It’s a short walk across a quiet road, into the shade of the woods and a soft, yet bright hello from a guide. You listen to the introduction about the museum, and the advice to wait for a school trip to finish. You wander on, curious to see the lay of the land. You walk along the gravel path, its stones grinding underfoot as you reach a tallish island of stacked rocks, amidst the meadow grass. There’s a statue on top of the rocks, perhaps a moose, or an elk. It’s too big to be a reindeer. Numerous signs are dotted around […]

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