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The all important downtime

Posiblogging, Uncategorized

Hi, How’s things? Hopefully good and if not, fingers crossed they’re moving that way soon. A break With Child 2.0 having finished their A Levels and indeed school, the Ever Lovely Mrs J suggested the idea of an early summer holiday. Given our collective needs around travel and those of our lovely doggos, a holiday in the UK was certainly on the cards. TBH, that suits me to a tee, given I don’t like airports or long travel journeys. The search began in North Wales and much was said about various holiday locations and Anglesey was very popular…. so how we fell upon the Peoples’ Republic of Yorkshire, I’m unsure 🤔 but very grateful 💖 We’ve had the pleasure of […]

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TDOV 2026

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Hi, Ah, the occasional and somewhat rare midweek post 🙂 Every year on 31st March, we celebrate a Trans Day of Visibility across the world. I will not go into the nonsense and hate we’re currently experiencing as a community – frankly, there’s not the time, and secondly we see enough of the Useful Idiots being platformed on and by the media. Ragefarming, anyone? 🙄 For those of out & about today, congratulations and thank you. For those of you not up to much today, may I say that’s okay too? It’s not always easy to do so – home, family, health, and/or work commitments, etc. It may be that you, like me, don’t have the opportunity to do so. […]

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Circular

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Hi, Yay for Fridays: the blessing of part-time folk and those in need of a rest. Well, ‘and/or’ but not Andor, which is different thing altogether. Keep up, young padawans 😉 Yesterday I was thinking about what I might write about, as I was beginning to feel like I was stuck in a bit of a loop. Readers of a certain age – that would be me, as well – may wish to mutter the film line “Groundhog day!” 🙂 Cue a wee public domain picture as I’m trying to reduce any graphical AI generation. Reduce, reuse, and recycle! 🤗 So, yeah, the feeling of being in a bit of a loop remains. Perhaps not having significant or impactful events […]

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Weather the storm

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Hi, According to Elmore Leonard and his Ten Rules of Writing, number one is “Never open a book with weather.” This is great advice and as I’ve started this week’s blog post by referencing Mr Leonard’s sage wisdom, I can now talk about the snow 😉 Chamsellation A bit of a – thankfully rare! – occurrence, in that we had to cancel the first Chams’ meeting of the year. I had kept an eye on the weather and pretty much not thought much about it. I mean, it’s not often we have a bad winter in the East Midlands … [ Weather gods, please do not take this as a provocation! 🙏] … so I was somewhat surprised to see […]

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Unlearning

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Hi, How’s things with you? Hopefully going well…. and if not, fingers crossed things start to go your way soon. No rush Today – which is somewhat of an odd word to pick, given who knows when (if? 😁) you may be reading this! – I was Partner Taxi, as the Ever Lovely Mrs J had a medical appointment. As these things tend to do, matters overran. Which is fine, given I’m currently between jobs and I had nothing in my diary for the morning. Rather than clock watching and fretting about getting back, I had the opportunity – nay, gift – of nowhere I needed to be. Instead, I had a merry wander around the grounds; enjoying the bright […]

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Aide memoire

Looking Back, Uncategorized

Hi, Is anyone feeling Christmasy yet? I don’t want to come across as Old Scrooge – or perhaps the Grinch, to US readers – but so far, the Xmas Magic has yet to arrive at Chez Jones. I hope getting the decorations up will help a little. Mind you, I’m looking forward to see our family come together. Other than that, we’re taking it pretty easy this year. What about you? A look back This won’t be the Look Back posts that I did during the lockdowns. However, while putting together last month’s anniversary post, it was – as per – some time after clicking publish, that I remembered I’d not included a certain photo. Well, possibly more: it depends […]

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