‘It’s all happening’. It really is. 2007 seems to be another one of those years where everything appears to be moving and rearranging, a new door is teetering on its hinges waiting to be opened onto a new chapter, a new episode in this thing called life. What next is in store is anyones guess, but for…
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Spectacular
I have been ‘HD ready’ for a while. For about a year and a half in fact. It was only until a couple of weeks ago however when I finally managed to book an appointment for an eye test that all became clear. “Please read the letters on the board for me, right down to…
Brown Bag
Just down the road from my office is a little cafe called the Brown Bag. Sometimes – although normally on a Friday – the youngest members of the office decamp here and we enjoy a whole solitary hour in the comfort of the big brown leather sofas, putting the world to right over a luxurious…
Strange familiar
Where I work we have quite a unique way of doing things when it comes to car parking. Due to the limited grounds surrounding the Council Offices, employees are issued with a free pass that entitles you to free parking in any one of 3 public car parks in Wokingham Town Centre. As I travel…
Doodling
I’m a doodler. I doodle when talking on the phone, in meetings, on the back of my train ticket, on till receipts, and curiously once on my knee during a 5 hour bus journey in Peru which didn’t wash off for ages, and I’m sure was the reason airport staff searched me on my way…
Apathy in the ranks
It has been on my summer break from university (I am studying part time for a Masters Degree in Spatial Planning) that I have really begun to really take stock of where I am and what I’m doing. The constant day to day pressures of my course and the copious assignments we are required to…
Dreaming and Rhyming
Have you ever had a dream so real that you can pick flowers and smell them, read a letter and recognise the hand writing or even have conversations so vivid that you wake up to the hear the last words resounding in your ears? I did…. and I do. Regularly. I have always been the…
The Change
More often than not when I travel by bus, I will spend at least some of my time pondering why old ladies (normally well represented on this mode of transport) all seem to sport the same hair do. It would seem that at around the age of 65, you no longer harbor any desire to…
Faking it
I am avid subscriber to the ‘Magazine’ Section of the BBC news website which read every morning (accompanied by the mandatory cup of tea), provides a useful kick start to the grey matter – knocking me out of the daze that so I often arrive to the office in. Yesterday I came across an article…
Remaining Neutral
The better half and I have been on a bit of a decorating frenzy since we moved into our house last year, liberating it of its drab 1970’s decor and attempting to turn it into a palace of peace and tranquility…… with a touch of class. I think as ‘moving in together’ goes, I have been very…