I’m trying to write, really I am. But ideas just now are not ready to eat yet – they’re only half-baked. When I do my regular school pick-up walk, it doubles as free-to-think time. (It also doubles as yes-I-do-take-some-exercise-actually time, and my own individual version of Springwatch at the moment, just so’s you know.) There …
Category archives: Writing
Look back at anger
I was pretty angry on Friday night. Not only did I have to send myself to my room for a bit, it got in the way of writing too. I calmed down a bit later – a bit of after hours kitchen therapy can help sometimes. (Pulling apart a cooked chicken is also quite effective …
Kitchen confidential
Don’t tell the freezer (or the new-ish cooker), but I seem to have gone off cooking. Again. Call it the changing light, and the possibility of less wintry food. But, more realistically, call it being on kitchen duty for the forseeable future. Overall, I like food. More accurately, I love food. I love thinking about …
Whelmed
Not under. Not over. Just whelmed. Where what you get back is more than you expect – but you can deal with it. I wrote something approaching a poem last night – and had a message back from a friend in less then ten minutes. I was whelmed. Certainly not underwhelmed (comment is useful, when …
Gaining perspective
I’ve tagged this post under Politics, which always feels a bit like I’m in someone else’s territory. Dan was the one who did Politics posts – and who is much more informed about what’s happening in the world. I used to have a little bit of a newspaper reading habit, back in the days of …