In 2020 I’m answering a list of 52 journal questions. Read about it here. How have you changed in the last year?Wow. What a year to be considering this question. Drought, then fire, then floods and hail, then pandemic. I have two things to talk about. The first isn’t really a change, more a reminder…
Articles from May 2020
Giving Moore, Part 2
You may remember on the 6 May I posted about (then) Captain Tom Moore who decided to raise £1000 for NHS Charities to help fight coronavirus by completing 100 laps of his garden on his walker before the end of April when he turned 100 (10 laps of the 25m garden a day). You can…
500 posts (or is it?)
Time to celebrate my… 500 blog posts does seems a lot, but the thing is, I used to blog on blogger (my first post was 15 October 2008) – I closed it when I created this little corner of cyberspace (24 March 2017). If I include those posts I am at 1013. What is interesting…
Writing Retreat Cruise #3
Continuing my report of my writing retreat cruise (read #1 here). Obviously the purpose of the cruise was to write. We’d wanted to do a retreat where none of us had to spend a lot of time shopping, cooking, cleaning… you know how it goes. We worked out a cruise was the best option. Everything…
School’s back…kinda
Today my eldest Barbarian (Heckle) starts back at school after 6 weeks of closed schools. Thanks to a gradual start to face-to-face schooling, Jeckle won’t start back until 2 June (after 8 weeks away). Both Barbarians are excited to be going back to school. Online learning just isn’t the same. Hopefully everything will go well…