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New Year Resolutions
Here we are, with the first month of the new decade flying past us. (Or, depending when you’re reading this, having flown past us.). My hope for you is that, up to this point, you have not made any New...
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As IF
Currently, I am sitting in Costa coffee, having a cup of tea (21 calories) after having had nothing but a glass of orange juice for breakfast (94 calories) and trying to not eat anything.I am, you see,...
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America
I recently returned from the US, and none too soon from the look of things, as the Americans appear to be ready to pull down the shutters.It was a hastily arranged and unexpected trip. I could just...
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Eulogy
When I started this blog, I promised myself three things: that I wouldn’t talk about politics, religion or my family (grandkids excepted). I have broken that promised a few times (Trump and Breixt were...
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Shedding the Shed
When I was a boy, my dad built a shop in the back yard. It was about half the size of our house and he built the whole thing himself. He needed it because he was an upholsterer and, over the years, he...
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Love in the Time of Coronavirus
No CORVID-19 FREE ZONE this time, I’m afraid. Instead, I’m going to take a light-hearted look at crises past and the turmoil that has sort of bookended our marriage so far.I actually met my wife due to...
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Going for a Swim
Over the years, I’ve noted how the swimming pool at the local leisure center comes up short when compared to my memories of swimming in the creek, and how what adventurous locals refer to as “Wild...
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Once More Into the Breach
Early in 2013, while wrestling with the plot of my hopefully-to-be-published second novel, I stepped back from the tangled mess I was making and diverted myself by writing a quick story for my...
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Quarantine Quandaries
To start off, I have to say that, if someone put a gun to my head and forced me to pick a period in my life where I had to suffer through a global pandemic, this would be the perfect time to...
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It’s a Classic
One day, while I was still in single-digits, somewhere around 6 or 7, I went exploring in my parent’s bedroom closet. This was because I was young, unsupervised, and very bored (there was no Netflix...
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Lockdown Letup
Sorry I’m late with this post, but I’ve been sorta busy.I had to take the car in for service this morning and the traffic was bad. And then I took it to get washed. We filled the tank yesterday for the...
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Adventures in Baking
I’ve always had a fondness for baking bread. It was a nice winter pastime, something to do on a snowy afternoon when I had no place to go and nothing else to do. I hadn’t done it in a few years, mostly...
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The NeverEnding Story
During those long-ago days, when Lockdown first began, I—and almost everyone else in Britain—began a Lockdown Diary.For me, this wasn’t a big change. I have been keeping a journal since the age of...
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Faking It
The US 2020 Presidential Election is beginning to gear up, and we all know what that means: the tidal wave of Fake News (real Fake News—not opinions you don’t like) that is currently swamping Twitter...
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Summer, Revisited
2020I’m sitting in my office with a limp breeze floating in through the open window, bringing with it the scent of dry grass and sun-baked tarmac, as well as a distinctive “new clothes” smell, as I am...
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Closing the Barn Door
My Postcards books were published a decade ago, and some of the essays in them are nearly twenty years old. So why did I suddenly, and so belatedly, re-release them?Am I really that vain? Do I crave...
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Holiday
We’ve just returned from holiday (or, as you in the US might say, We just got back from vacation) and, as usual, it already feels like we never left. There is laundry to be done, dishes to wash, and it...
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Holiday II
We’ve just returned from holiday and, as usual, it already feels like we never left. There is laundry to be done, dishes to wash, and it seems that no one did the hoovering while we were gone.Wait a...
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Strange Coincidence
Long ago, in the Before Time — before Breixt, before Trump, before COVID — I began writing a fantasy/adventure series for my grandsons. Any dedicated reader of Postcards… will be aware of this, as I...
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Lockdown 2.0
I ended my first Lockdown Diary on 18 July, and posted to this blog about it. The post ended with a mocked-up photo of my fictional, future Lockdown #2 diary. I don’t recall thinking that it would...
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An Early Christmas Present
“Ask about getting a Shingles vaccine,” my wife says, as I prepare to leave for my flu jab.Shingles? Isn’t that some medieval affliction, like cholera, typhoid fever, or the Black Death, and similarly...
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A Dangerous Year of Reading
This past year may have been one huge cluster-fuck of bad news, but one of the good things to come out of it was I had a lot of time to read. So much so, that I have finished 2020 having read more...
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You Learn Something New Every Day
I have decided that 2021 is the year to put that bit of folk wisdom to the test. The challenge, however, is not merely in the learning.For example: on the first day, I learned that scenes from the 1947...
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By the Numbers
All of my working life, I had a dream: when I retired, I was going to take up painting. It was a dream that sustained me through many long years of gainful employment, thinking about what I could...
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1984 – 37 Years Later
In 1980, I bought a paperback version of 1984, figuring I should read it before the fateful year arrived. Forty-one years later, I’m still carrying that book around and I still have not read it. But...
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