Saturday 06 February This morning, in fact the whole day, has drifted by satisfyingly swift. There’s always an expectation that the day needs to be filled with stuff being done. Not today. I pottered to start. Insignificant jobs were accomplished today. Like swapping bird feeders. Taking Stan to meet his girlfriend for his weekend walk.Continue reading “Day 323”
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Day 260
Saturday 05 December It has been a day of very contrasting emotions. I have been consciously distancing myself from the news over the past week. This only seems to make me angry and frustrated. And there’s enough going on in my own life to take up my thinking space. A coffee in bed this morningContinue reading “Day 260”
Day 258
Thursday 03 December The short passages of time are providing a pleasent pastime right now. It’s nice to reminisce about things that only happened a few days or weeks ago. Five days ago we walked and ran on the beach at Frinton-on-Sea. And as I sit here, in the arm chair, on a cold andContinue reading “Day 258”
Day 239
Saturday 14 November 11.30am. I am currently sat in the reception of Colchester General Hospital waiting for Mum to arrive from the care home. She has had two seizures back-to-back and is being brought in by paramedics. The year has been pretty horrible and I fear that, as we approach December, it hasn’t finished fishingContinue reading “Day 239”
Day 236
Wednesday 11 November Today is Armistice Day. At 11am the nation stops what it’s doing for two minutes of silent reflection. I was actually on the phone to a parent at 11am this morning and neither of us noticed. That’s the first time in as many years as I can remember. I was able toContinue reading “Day 236”
Day 231
Friday 06 November Today all eyes have been glued to the news coming from the US and waiting to see what has happened in the election. But this is a distraction from the craziness of life in the UK and across the world right now. Anxiety is rising amongst the staff and generally across theContinue reading “Day 231”
Day 228
Tuesday 03 November There is a weird sense of the inevitable but also of the unpredictable. The second lockdown in England is coming on Thursday. Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland have already been living with lockdown style restrictions. Nervousness is growing amongst people I know, despite us arguably being much better prepared than before. AcrossContinue reading “Day 228”
Day 224
Friday 30th October I went to the Imperial War Museum at Duxford today with the Gentleman’s Film and Leisure Club. It was great to be on a jolly outing, just cross the Essex/Cambridgeshire border with my pals. It is a fascinating place, huge hangars housing hundreds of planes. It’s quite interesting how we have conqueredContinue reading “Day 224”
Day 223
Thursday 29 October Its not lost on me that whilst discovering so much more about my local area, I am using the global world wide web to understand it in more detail. My legs do the walking and my eyes and ears take it all in, wowing at the beauty and the marvel of itContinue reading “Day 223”
Day 180
Wednesday 16 September I’ve been sat here next to the dog wondering what it is about this time of year that unsettles me so. I’ve been for a walk, the usual one, about three and a bit kilometres. A circuit around our local lanes and paths. On my way home just beforehand the sunshine wasContinue reading “Day 180”
The Bald Birder 