Month: July 2023

Cure the summertime blues

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Hi, Another Friday, another post at YATGB! 🙂 Well, except for… umm… the few times the mojo isn’t quite working and I call it quits until Saturday 😁 Back of the bus While out with the Ever Lovely Mrs J, we spotted this awesome allyship 🏳️‍🌈 A right to choose? Very much so. Thank you NCT 💜 Homefront The home repair issues seem to be back on track and – not to tempt Fate – okay at the mo. With that in mind, my stress levels are lower. As a friend alluded to, it’s not taking away one of your [mental health] spoons. Amen to that, sister. On Thursday I whipped round with the vacuum, having got my outfit bag […]

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If you don’t say…

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Hi, How’s things with you? Shall we start with some personal stuff and then I’ll get the soapbox out? 😉 I mean, well, habits, yo 😁 Home stuff I’m grateful this week for mild weather. Not having to worry about when it’s okay to take the hounds out, or when it comes to sleep. That frustration of being too hot to sleep at night and then too hot in the day not to start nodding off. I, for one, do not welcome our new Lizard Overlords 😉 I’m also now part-time. The Ever Lovely Mrs J and I had an end of week day out on my day off. A stroll with the dogs, no clocks to watch, and nowhere […]

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Let soup be soup

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Hi, The week is done and so the call of the weekend begins. Somehow I clocked up three miles of walking today. I say this as a reason why I had a nap after tea, rather than as an achievement. 😁 Today’s post – usually given the last few – may be more upbeat, but will continue in the usual vein of claptrap and bunkum. What an amazing title for a quirky old shop that sells rare curios and books…. Some, mais out, may be of eldritch enhancement, but never cursed. Ïä, ïä 🐙 Thursday Due to an unfortunate clash of fortunate events, I was in Bloke Mode again this time around. The good news is that Child 2.0 had […]

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Pressing the backspace key

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Hi, I’m having issues at the mo around writing. The ideas come quickly enough and yet I feel I’m self censoring. Just the other day I started a reply to someone and I stopped. Not because it was mean, unkind, or dodgy: but simply, if I don’t say this, does it matter? Sharper tongued readers may be asking that about the whole blog…. and they’d not be wrong! 😁 I felt urged to comment – perhaps even satirically – around recent rulings (see here: The Good Law Project and PinkNews here) – but again, why? Those reading this are likely to trans or allies, and in ‘preaching to the choir’ is anything likely to change? I could spend that energy […]

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Sssh

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Hi, Those of you with eagle eye action – there’s a modern pop culture reference for you 😉 – may well have noted the lack of the usual Friday night post on YATGB. A combination of too much week at the end of the motivation and… if I’m honest, I’m not sure I have much to say. To the latter, yeah, what’s new? 😉 I think I’ve mentioned before, the idea of having bags of sugar to carry. Why sugar? Well, they’re handy 1Kg weights and it’s not like you could but flour during lockdown 😉 I guess with the summer – the heat, the clothes, my body issues (Hairy McMary vs Chalky McSquaky), etc. Well, it’s a number of […]

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