Insomnia is my friend tonight so I’m lying in bed, blasting country music (through headphones cos I’m considerate) and re-reading my old blog posts – so many good memories. Spoke to a friend today who was requesting new blog...
Intentions for 2023
I looked back at my intentions for 2022 and it’s disappointing how poorly I did at achieving any of them. I think I basically need to try again with the same intentions this year. The only one I was...
Happy New Year!
2022 was a better year for me. Still not life as we know it but definitely living. I traveled enough to feel guilty about my part in contributing to climate change and my only mitigation is that I’m pretty...
Intentions for 2022
For a whole variety of reasons, I decided that my new year would start on February 1. So here are some thoughts and intentions for this *new* beginning. I started 2022 a lot brighter than I started 2021 –...
Travel summary 2021 (and 2020)
I did write a travel summary for 2020 but I didn’t post it because it was too damn depressing. But here it is now: Travel summary 2020: The irony in that title is palpable. It is 305 days since...
Farewell 2021
Anything I write about the last year or rather the last 22 months or so will inevitably be a cliché. We’ve all been living through it and while everyone’s experience is different, this has affected us all. I’m only...
A weekend in Buxton
This time last year, I was at a friends reunion. We rented a great house with lots of space to hang out and play games. We’re spread all over the place now and I hadn’t seen some people in more...
Working my way through the list
I first posted my to-do list in 2016. It has 70 items on it and, in the last four years, I have managed to complete a few of them so I figured that would be a good place to...
Food blogging
I started wading through my photos to find some inspiration for travel blogging but, based on the percentage of photos I have of the meals I have eaten, it may turn into more of a food blogging exercise. I...
Travel Mourning
I was scheduled to leave on a great big adventure this morning. This was a big trip, one that could legitimately be called a trip-of-a-lifetime. And instead I’m at home and it’s just another weekday. But I’m going to...