You have to develop resilience when you're canvassing
I've just come in from a quick canvassing session, where we attempted to survey local residents on their priorities and worries for the local area. If you don't know about people's concerns, you can't address them, right?
One door was opened by
Good for my health
Well, will you look at that?! Is it a coincidence that this notification from my phone Health app came exactly 9 days after I left Facebook and Instagram?
Scientifically speaking, there will be unisolated variables, but what a strong indication that being part of Meta was not doing me any
This week's earworms
I can't be the only one who finds myself with music going round in my head to reflect my mood, my subconscious concerns? Sometimes my head music takes me by surprise by how it knows what I'm thinking before I realise it. This week I have
It's brown
...which is just a darker shade of beige.
This year's It Colour is "Mocha Mousse." Already we see it appearing everywhere.
A few years ago white was de rigeur in all modern interiors. Which looked beautiful (if, in my view, dull) until it was covered with
Norfolk
I'm lucky enough to have a little place in North West Norfolk, about 25 minutes from the seaside. I love it there for the fresh air, the dark, starry skies and the wildlife.
Here are some of my favourite pictures:
The Canadian
There's something romantic and epic about long train journeys. I have travelled for days across India and China by train, where your carriage becomes a village with all its assorted characters and their comings and goings. (The reality is not as romantic, of course). Sadly, I think I&
Montreal
My son James chose to go to university in Montreal, and was eventually offered training for a job and accommodation there by the father of his girlfriend. In October 2021, in Covid times, on my way back to hermetic Hong Kong from London I had to spend three "washout&
Goodbye Meta (well, as much as possible)
In the end I went with my gut instinct.
You'll know how I switched from Twitter to Bluesky fairly early but kept my Twitter account because of friends I'd made there and because I was running my Samaritans Branch Twitter feed and because my LibDem candidacies
Please don't throw sticks for my dog
"Who has been throwing things for this dog?"
My gundog trainer friend knew, immediately. Cringing with embarassment I stammered something about lots of visitors over Christmas but I knew exactly what had happened. It had taken one weekend, one walk by the seaside to ruin my dog'
An owl
I was delighted to see an owl sitting in the road on my way back from Norfolk on Sunday evening. I think it was a tawny owl but I'm not sure. This picture is not mine. At first I thought the thing in the middle of the tiny