2 October 2025
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My friend Ian and I are slowly working our way through How to Inhabit Time by James KA Smith (BrazosPress, 2022). Tonight, our first catch up for several months, we got onto a chapter exploring the idea of seasons of … Continue reading
10 April 2023
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One of the (I think) positive things about the COVID-19 pandemic was that certain things that would have been marked ‘impossible’ in the past rapidly became possible. Calling up your gran for a quick web conference? Suddenly, everybody learned a … Continue reading
9 November 2022
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I popped down to the local hospital today for another booster dose of COVID vaccine – number four in total. No notable ill effects so far – I suspect feeling a bit tired and having some aches is more about … Continue reading
24 June 2022
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I’ve just picked up an email telling me that tomorrow afternoon’s gig with CSWO has been cancelled due to COVID-19. No more details yet of who has come down with it but it is a reminder that this pestilence is … Continue reading
28 March 2022
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Jane suggested I take another lateral flow test today as I’m free of symptoms of illness. A negative result wouldn’t mean that I could immediately rejoin society but it might mean I didn’t have to keep putting my mask on … Continue reading
26 March 2022
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This is not what I wanted to see this morning: It’s faint but clearly positive. I probably picked it up on Wednesday which is when, according to a notice the NHS app sent me later in the week, I was … Continue reading
17 January 2022
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Over the past month or so, I’ve been surprised at the number of people who haven’t been routinely reporting their COVID-19 lateral flow test results; many hadn’t even realised that you are meant to do so, even with negative or … Continue reading
10 January 2022
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More dealing with my image backlog – today it was a couple of scans from the start of my present sketchbook. This was from the gallery in the centre of Nottingham, Nottingham Contemporary. I note that this sketch was done … Continue reading
15 December 2021
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I love those Swiss cheeses with big holes in them but, if you get particularly fascinating gaps inside, you are in fact paying more for air than cheese. That’s in my mind because there are some definite air gaps in … Continue reading
9 December 2021
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I think this week’s headline failure of Boris Johnson’s government, the parties that people employed by the Conservatives held during last year’s lockdown, is the kind of situation in which a decent leader would be expected to step down. Did … Continue reading