Month: February 2019

What’s the difference between redundancy and resignation?: In the former instance, they get rid of you; in the latter, you get rid of them. 8.00 am: I felt the onset…

8.15 am: A communion. 9.00 am: As one project comes to a close, another commences. Since I was already in writing mode, I remained in it for a further one…

Saturday enigma; Sunday enigma. He/she ‘who has ears to hear’: 8.30 am: A settling of the week ahead. Tutorials to arrange; admin to accommodate; reviews to sign off; meetings to…

Do not remember the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you, Lord, are good (Psalm 25.7). 7.00 am: Breakfast. 7.30 am:…

The high winds blew over the wheelie-bin last night. I’d been woken often and for long. 7.40 am: ‘Up! This is late!’ Alarm was converted into haste. 8.15 am: A…

8.20 am: A communion. 8.45 am: An issue (in every sense of the word) of emails before settling to writing (interrupted by a period of blood-letting at my GP practice).…

‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future’ (Jeremiah…

It’s curious how the feelings associated with a bad dream linger and scent the waking hours, thereafter. In my dream, I discovered that some rogue had stolen artwork and source…

9.45 am: Having mixed draft compositions into the wee hours (when it was so, so quiet around and about), I gave myself an extra hour in bed. (‘Slacking, John!’, my…