Tag: black dog

“Throw your bombs and your blows,
But you’re not gonna break my soul.”

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Hi, Just when I thought I’d snaffled all my Maltesers, I spied one rested at the side of the keyboard. Little pleasures eh? By a strange quirk of thought (Ed: Fate?), I guess that sums up most of the week really: small, but welcome bursts of good things happening. The first part of the week saw me away from home on a training course. Some IT “what’s new” gig and while you could argue it could have been a rather tedious death-by-PowerPoint marketing exercise, it wasn’t like that at all. Instead, we – I say, we as a work mate went along – did learn a few things and overall, the course was very helpful. Having a few nights away in […]

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“Cause I’m in too deep, and I’m trying to keep,
All the thoughts in my head, instead of going under.”

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Hi folks, Deep breath and concentrate, Lynn…. It’s been a bit of a mixed bag since my last blog entry. There’s been some good stuff and some not so good stuff. I’ll get the moaning not so good stuff out of the way and end on a positive note. 😉 Given last week’s mental… issues… I had high hopes for Chameleons this time around. Funny, really; I could have really done with some ‘Lynn mode’ this week, yet it did not come to pass. Or more accurately, not completely. Home was fine, work didn’t hold me back, but the weather – for me at least – was just too much. I was late leaving home and on the way there, I […]

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“He’s trying his best to understand the ’cause of his dismay”

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Hi, Today’s post is a bit of a tough one to write. Not that I’ve run out of stuff & nonsense to chat about, but…. ah, you’ll see in a mo. I had thought about talking about careers, jobs and progress, but I guess I’ll save that for another day. It seems that…. and how I hate to say it, I’m in danger of slipping back into sharing company with the Black Dog. It is not, all encompassing, but it is there. Y’see, I do and don’t want to talk about it. The don’t comes into it as I don’t want to allow myself to be defined by this, nor do I want to feel as I do. Additionally, I am […]

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“You’re in then you’re out,
You’re up then you’re down…”

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Hi folks, Yeah, I’m a day late. The Black Dog ate my homework 😉 Despite the consumption of my plans, said beast didn’t hang around too long. Mind you, I don’t mind an hour or so, but two days in the company of said metaphorical hound was not good. Do I know why? No, not really. All is well on Planet Jones: I’m good, my family are safe & sound, work is going well and really, I’m not sure analysing my feelings truly helps. What does is regular exercise, the odd afternoon kip to top up the batteries and plenty of good, old fashioned, English cure-all: a nice cup of tea. Decaff, mais oui! Over on Facebook, a friend made […]

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“’cause she new what she was doin,
when she told me how to walk this way”

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Hiya, As way of a change, this week I’ve been away on a course. Not the tucked away in a hotel type of thing, but just away from the cut & thrust of the office. This time around it was a change from the technical and on to matters of a team focus. I found the whole thing interesting, but I think that was mainly due to the people I was with (lots of new people for all over the firm) and all the conversational stuff that went on. People swapping stories and life experiences, that type of thing. Anyhoo, during one coffee break, one attendee  mentioned that she’d been looking to study counselling, but given the travel required (the degree […]

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You took my light, you drained me down,
But that was then and this is now,
Now look at me

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Hello, How’s things with you? Hopefully all rather good. It is – at least at the time of writing – the weekend and for some of us, that’s two days away from work. Time for you the Jones Massive to duck the treadmill of modern life and kick back into the slow lane. With luck, there’ll be a spot of lunch, a few walks in the park and if the weather stays good, maybe a bike-ride too. Yay for spring! Cheer up, Mrs This week saw the last of my anti-miserablist sessions, or as the NHS like to call it: CBT. The session was fairly brief, just a summary of what we’d talked about and a bit of the obligatory […]

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