As you get older, it gets really easy to actually feel it. Here are two ways I have felt it recently. Reading entertainment news. Most recently it was a story about Demi Lovato being hospitalised, to which my first reaction was wondering why some obscure one-hit wonder merited such coverage. And then I looked her […]
Entries from July 30th, 2018
Earworms
July 23rd, 2018 · Comments Off on Earworms · Music
An earworm is a song that you just can’t get out of your head. At times when your mind is a blank, the tune keeps popping in your head. At other times you are thinking about something intently and suddenly realise you are humming it. I am partucularly prone to earworms The thing is, the […]
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Movin’ on up
July 23rd, 2018 · Comments Off on Movin’ on up · Life
After six months of riding aroud on my 50cc scooter, I bought a ‘proper’ motorbike, and then did the CBT so I would be allowed to ride it. Unfortunately, I completely did my back in soon after the CBT by over-doing it on the allotment, and it is only in the last couple of days […]
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Pride – part two
July 13th, 2018 · 2 Comments · Life
Having complained about the concept, I have to admit to the sin of pride today, and it was certainly not for any achievement of mine. Rather it was vicarious pride in our daughter’s achievement as she picked up her master’s degree today. I may try to be cool about it, but I know I am […]
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Pride
July 13th, 2018 · Comments Off on Pride · Life
The word ‘pride’ has been flying around a lot lately, especially about the England football team. It is a word I try to avoid and I have never really thought about why. I guess it is partly because I try to be modest and pride is sort of the opposite to that. It is partly […]
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