Year: 2023

Fabulocity

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Hi, Ah, the luxury of a Friday off and nothing to rush around for. Instead, the simple joy of a long walk in the countryside, a coffee with the Ever Lovely Mrs J, and the beauty of a cool Spring day. Truly, the gifts of time and a chance to unwind. I had a call with a friend last night (hello Andie! 👋) and I was saying that I’d take cross with myself over the faffing around in getting ready. Again, we’re back to that phrase of “would you say that to a friend?“. Perhaps if you had a train to catch, but glib comments aside, no. So, again, perhaps useful to not say it to myself either. As with […]

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Breaking the spell

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Hi, Shall we have a positive post to break things up a bit? It’s been a bit of tricky few weeks of late, so hopefully this will help break the cycle. ( Perhaps it would’ve been quicker to ask a level 6 friend to cast Remove Curse, but that may be a geek reference too far 🤓 Then again, could someone cast it across the UK? I feel we need help 😉 ). Moving on… Background At the risk of sounding like a character from The Fast Show – oddly, something I didn’t really watch – this week I have mostly been acting as a house husband. No, not married to a house (cue hOUses dEm4nd maRridge rigHts – iTs […]

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The Formula of You

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Hi, It’s been a bit of an odd week this time around. Some good, some could-be-better, some WTAF?!, and a few tears along the way. My, that does sound dramatic that last bit! But it’s nothing serious or life threatening. I guess things build up and the eyeball sprinklers go into test mode 😉 Readers of a more fabulous nature may prefer the phrase mascara bothering egress 😁 but I wouldn’t know anything about that (Ted 😉). Could-be-better You might have picked up on an earlier link about Highly Sensitive People. Do please click the link if you’re curious. I’ve since read – and I can’t find the link – that the word sensitive comes with extra cultural baggage. E.g.: […]

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Not so much

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Hi, They other day I was talking to an old acquaintance from Chams (hello Kim! 👋) and we found ourselves bouncing around this comment from Yours Truly: “…There are times when it feels too much to be Richard nearly all of the time. It’s more than ‘dressing up’ which is not a phrase I like or identify with.“ To roll out some sage wisdom from one of the Jones’ kids favourite films: “Good guess, but actually no.” The Pirate Captain, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! Those familiar with the above, may well have heard Hugh Grant’s beautiful British tones. The rest of you will just have to reread and imagine it. 😉 If you’re pressed for time and […]

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Delayed

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Hi, No post on Friday due to illness. Nothing serious, just a cold. The annoying type that induces a level of sneezing, in which if you had a wind farm, you’d have solved the energy crisis. 😉 Plus, I’m now suitably voiced to catch up on my deathgrowl guest vocals. 🤘 Don’t mention the 30s I’m hoping erudite readers will be able to unravel this conundrum for me. As background, there’s a certain group of UK folk who are very pro free speech. You may have heard them saying “you can’t say anything these days” and then promptly saying – on TV, in the paper, and/or on-line – the thing you apparently can’t say. Oh, and then discussing it with […]

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Resetting

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Hi, On a home life point of view, there’s been a series of small, but rather good, spots of luck. Honestly, it feels good to be able to write about things positively. Off To start with, I had some leave to use up and that shortened last week very nicely. Not only that, but the Ever Lovely Mrs J was able to book time off too. This week was suitably interrupted by that unusual occurrence: a day off and nowhere I had to be. Well, it would be rude – and possibly regrettable – not to…. So I went out. 🏳️‍🌈 With spring nearly here, summer months away, and yet weather considerably wintery, I was in somewhat of a ditz […]

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