I completely missed the 100 Days To Offload blogging challenge. I had seen the hashtag but didn't delve deeper. Today I discovered the website. Simply, the aim is to write 100 blog posts within a year. The year can be any point in time, not necessarily the start of a year. I had a look at my own blog, and in the...

Just checking my thoughts out loud. ARTEMIS II cost $4bn to launch. The overall spend on the project has been $93bn. The emissions into our atmosphere are huge. All that to take a photo of the arse end of the moon 🤣 Crew TasksI was reading the mission objectives earlier. 4. Complete Toilet acoustics assessment "OK,...

Words, and meanings, amaze me. More so the ones which are used colloquially — and have different meanings across the continents. Recently I was sarcastically ridiculing someone. (it was Trump and he deserved it!). This blog post was sparked by a conversation I had with someone about the meaning of a word; we...

I love a good podcast. Especially at night when I am in bed. Forty minutes on a good topic and I will nod off to sleep half way. If I wake up through the night I tune into the second half. But here is what's starting to get on my paps! The Spoken WordThe word Podcast is a mashup (a Portmanteau if we are being...

For the last several days the dog has been under the weather. She's been lethargic, miserable looking, and melancholy. I had hoped she would perk up in a day or two, and on Tuesday she seemed to have bounced back to her usual cheery, always happy, wagging-tail dog. On Wednesday morning she looked more depressed than...

I have a work meeting at 9am I need to leave the house at 7am to drive there I should get up at 6am I'm wide awake at 5:15am

One less hour in the day always seems like someone has stolen an opportunity from me. Here's how the day panned out: Very early this morning I took an hour to walk from the bedroom to the kitchen and back. In an uncanny moment, I woke just shy of 1am in need of some water. I'd forgotten to put a glass at the side of...

I was having a conversation with somebody last night. We were thinking about the last movie we went to see in the cinema. My last cinema visit was 10 years and three months ago. I really don't have attention span to watch a movie. I get bored as I think I could be doing something else.

Seriously, I did. I was driving along the coastal road; I stopped the car and got out; staggered over some large pebbles and rough sand; found a very specific rock, and said: "Hi Dad". Rewinding slightly: I was out at a meeting today, which took me further along the coast from where I live -- about 90 minutes. After...

Remember this? 21 March 2020. We were two days away from total lock-down in the UK (and most of the world) due to the COVID pandemic. Speculation was high that it might happen, and the supermarkets were struggling to maintain stock. Looking back, it's difficult to comprehend.

I enjoy writing. In my career I have written a lot: Proposals; Training Guides; Management Reports; Funding Applications.... For fun, I really enjoy writing my blog, but I am also a bit of a frustrated fiction writer. I would love to write a novel one day. I've had a few attempts at writing and have produced a...

Thanks to Alex for this blogging prompt, here's my own favourite reading genre. What is your favourite genre?It has to be Crime/Detective Fiction. It's a massive genre; very populous and busy with authors vying for attention. I love reading new, independent authors rather than the main-stream churn. I'd never pick...