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• Blowing Bubbles 10 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 11 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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