That’s peak me, starting something else before I have finished my last thing. I’m always looking for the next minor challenge. My reading challenges are going well and I am getting down to the business end of both my quests to Read the World and Booker prize winners. I have less than 10% of the … Continue reading Read the season
Goodbye Eddie
Goodbye Eddie Howe, Though I never knew you at all… To me you were (are) one of the good guys and that is important to me. I want to see good people doing well and in my book you did a good job. You embodied everything that I believe in leadership. When Newcastle United did well … Continue reading Goodbye Eddie
Tot ziens Duolingo
Three thousand, seven hundred and eighty eight days is approaching ten and a half years. This is how long my streak has been on Duolingo, an American language learning platform. That’s a long time, every day sitting down to study a language that I am increasingly less likely to use in what remains of my … Continue reading Tot ziens Duolingo
A trip to the Farnes
Image thanks to Third Eye Traveller It’s the long summer holidays and there are six or seven weeks to find things to do to keep the children amused and stop the adults from imploding. It’s always a challenge to get the balance right between doing too much, creating an expectation that cannot be met, or … Continue reading A trip to the Farnes
There’s always 2030
Image thanks to CBS Sports It’s over and, in a way, thank goodness. Despite my protestations I ended up watching far more of the FIFA World Cup than I meant to. Politics aside, it has been a good competition, with new teams emerging yet it is the old guard that has won again. Europe or … Continue reading There’s always 2030
Day walks
One of the great things about living where I do is that I can get away from it all. If I want to, I can be in the city within twenty minutes, or catch a train to more or less anywhere in the country, or the world. If that’s not what I want, in five … Continue reading Day walks
Do I or don’t I?
As I have already written, despite my protestations and best efforts I have been caught by the World Cup bug. With the matches being played in a different hemisphere to where I live it was inevitable that some of those I wanted to watch would be on at stupid o’clock. Sure enough, after a less … Continue reading Do I or don’t I?
Ten years on
Image thanks to the BBC I still remember the day after the Brexit referendum when my youngest daughter asked me what it means. I replied that it means that we are leaving the EU. Little did any of us realise how long the process would actually take. Ten years on and our relationship with the … Continue reading Ten years on
Social media ban
Image thanks to Gossipherald They say that a week is a long time in politics. Last week, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that under-16s will be banned from major social media platforms, including TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram. By the time you read this he may well no longer be Prime Minister. How this will affect … Continue reading Social media ban
Football crazy
I was determined that I wasn’t going to get caught up in the World Cup frenzy this time. What with the politics, the blatant corruption and the distances involved I was going to take a stance and ignore the whole affair, as much as I could. The thought of the orange one lording it up … Continue reading Football crazy
Thoughts from a Retired Guerrilla Worker 