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• Blowing Bubbles 8 months ago Hyper Supermarket. Too big Too Loud Too Much Choice Sensory Overload. There’s something odd about choice. Choice tends to be only really useful if it is limited to a certain amount. When it gets to Abundance Level it tends to mainly confuse, my mind tells me, while I narrowly avoid being hit by a...
• Pilgriminiscing, Squashed Salamanders, and Cute Ponies 9 months ago I went on a 22km run this morning, following part of the Pilgrims route. Pilgrimeniscing, I decided, as I was listening to Steven Covey’s 7 Habits audio book at the same time and I thought how I could engage in a Show Off Saturday on social media after this run, casually mentioning my mileage,...
• Are You Asleep Yet 1 year ago Insomnia prodded me all night, a bit like when you were a kid and had a sleepover and that friend you were never really sure you liked kept asking if you were asleep yet. Are you asleep yet. Are you asleep yet. Are you asleep yet. I get up and read the news, which makes … Continue reading Are You...
• Z is for Zoom 2 years ago Our village is on Google Street view. Not the entire village, but the main lane into it. I found it out by accident one day, while checking something on google maps and I was a bit shocked at first. Of course, progress cannot be stopped, and our village isn’t that remote at all, but I …...
• Y is for Yellow 2 years ago If you’d have asked me ten years ago what colour I could live without, I’d probably have said yellow. It never did anything for me. Too loud, too brash, too here I am look at me, vulgar, cheap. But in recent years, since living here, this has changed. I cannot possibly imagine life without...

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