I’ve given myself an extension to Monday’s midnight deadline because I’ve been busy uploading your work for the past few months that I haven’t had much time for my own reflections. Don’t get me wrong, it was a privilege to read and share your work. I want to say a sincere thank you for all…
‘What do you miss most?’ I hear people ask. Families towns, counties, and countries away; Loved ones in hospitals and nursing homes without visitors since March; hugging a grieving friend or waking our dead; livelihoods lost overnight and the pressure to reinvent oneself online. Each as valid and heartbreaking as the next. I must have…
It’s a little like Christmas because It’s nearly lunchtime and I’m still not dressed I’m mindlessly eating chocolate before breakfast Getting dressed involves exchanging indoor slouch pants for hiking trousers I’m not going to bed before 2 am It’s like Christmas but The smell of smoked ham, cloved red cabbage and gingerbread isn’t filling…
Business as usual you say? Usual SLAs still stand I presume? Oh right. Meanwhile ….. We tune in for regular State of the Nation addresses We tear up and are proud of our leaders’ Together Apart rhetoric Even if Leo borrows some lines from the Terminator movies Meanwhile ….. There is an invisible serial killer…
I’ve designed a WhatsApp quiz A virtual table quiz And before you say it I know there are fancier tools like Teams, Hangouts and Zoom to see each other’s faces and more importantly to check nobody is cheating But my sister lives in Cuba, her internet is poor so we’re going semi analog. It’s all…
It’s bright when I wake, sometime after 7. The Fitbit app tells me I’ve slept 4 hr 7 min but it’s feels a lot less. I should go back to sleep, it’s going to be a long day but instead decide to get up and out. Hard enough to get a space in Lidl carpark…
