To change one’s life..
This is one of my favourite quotes on the planet. I know, I keep saying that. (Image via bookriot.com) Life felt a little stuck last week, which is crazy given how much has changed in recent months....
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A few things happened last week that made me consider the level of risk in my life and whether it was really worth it. Risk can be physical, financial, emotional, geographical. This week’s quote was...
View ArticleDon’t Look Back
Birthdays are supposedly a time to celebrate, with family and friends. For me they are also a big indelible mark in the calendar that another year has passed, and this provokes an intense period of...
View ArticleTransition….Transmission
Often, when people make big changes in their lives, you hear lots about the good things. There is a lot of pressure (mostly put there by you) to demonstrate it’s all working out and was the best move...
View ArticleTwo halves, a bit of a hole, and a very important cow
*LONG POST, GET COFFEE* In September last year, newly arrived off the M6/M74, I remembered seeing fluorescent signs on the roads near my new house warning of a road race coming up. I looked it up, but...
View ArticleAt last …. some Strings!
Given the title of this blog, you could be forgiven for wondering what on earth had happened to the harp. As it happens, the harpist has been pretty quiet too, but the world of full time work has been...
View ArticleAnd everything stops
I was on my way home last night and just for a few moments, I had to stop. I could hear a familiar pattern of notes coming from a guitar. I wasn’t close enough to the busker to start with, but as I...
View ArticleAll is calm – Day 16
I’m just home from work, I feel sick from the bus journey home, I’m tired and I’m just starting to come down with yet another cold. I live by the hills just north of Glasgow so obviously it’s raining...
View ArticleMooching of an afternoon
(Written on a gloriously wi-fi free Thursday) This afternoon finds me in Leiden in the Netherlands. A quick tot up on the plane revealed that this is my most visited country which both surprised me and...
View ArticleA pause
I’m flying. I’m out of Clearways and as I come round Clark Curve and onto the Brabham Straight, I wind the revs on and click up the gears, and I’m flying. I crouch as low as I can over the long tank,...
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