| Title | Content | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duty of care | Dr F writes – Burn out is not the same … | 2019/07/21 | 2019-07-21 18:22:13 |
| Shame | It’s “Time to end the shame around Mental Health”. I … | 2019/07/05 | 2019-07-05 17:53:45 |
| The ones the wolves pull down | Just love this song by Garth Brooks I been all … | 2019/06/16 | 2019-06-16 18:41:18 |
| Green minestrone | My mindfulness moment now… So many tangential thoughts. But did … | 2019/06/13 | 2019-06-13 19:18:13 |
| Remains of the Day | Night driving on cruise control. Feeling sleepy and pulling over … | 2019/06/11 | 2019-06-11 19:11:35 |
| Seafood Chowder | Ry Cooder LP on my vinyl deck. World music, fusion. … | 2019/06/01 | 2019-06-01 19:09:31 |
| CNN | May flowers in the meadows Neighbour, Mat, talking about dogs … | 2019/05/31 | 2019-05-31 19:06:11 |
| Surfeit of health | The good news is that my health has improved so … | 2019/05/20 | 2019-05-20 15:16:56 |
| Dawn chorus | Bluebells and small white flowers Piper reducing engine revs on … | 2019/05/05 | 2019-05-05 19:04:27 |
| Friday evening | Nala and Mat in flat 1 Cricket on the green … | 2019/05/03 | 2019-05-03 19:01:01 |
| Hellen | Sister morphine. H. Driving round Suffolk in 1971 in my … | 2019/04/22 | 2019-04-22 19:29:08 |
| Research conference | Killing me softly, Rebecca Flack, at La dolce vita, Newcastle. … | 2019/04/21 | 2019-04-21 19:31:49 |
| Living in a motor home | I’ve been exploring potential links with Imperial where I did … | 2019/04/20 | 2019-04-20 17:47:45 |
| Playlist | Movement between D and G in Wave by … Sleeping … | 2019/04/12 | 2019-04-12 19:25:15 |
| Looking forward | I often scan through the travel page at the back … | 2019/02/07 | 2019-02-07 09:19:57 |
| Tightly corked | S writes Had a great time but it’s a bottle … | 2019/02/02 | 2019-02-02 20:18:39 |
| Vondelpark | I’ve been out and about in Amsterdam, which really means … | 2019/01/08 | 2019-01-08 11:16:02 |
| Luton | Just watched Nancy Pelosi winning the speaker’s chair on CNN. … | 2019/01/03 | 2019-01-03 11:11:50 |
| Hiding in plain sight | I remember going for a walk with my mother in … | 2018/12/29 | 2018-12-29 13:37:13 |
| Long shots | I found some notes from an exhibition of Hopper’s paintings … | 2018/12/29 | 2018-12-29 09:45:18 |
| Cardboard boxes | The Christmas hiatus is almost done. It’s been good in … | 2018/12/28 | 2018-12-28 18:01:49 |
| Dawn | It was a mistake. I shouldn’t have come. It was … | 2018/12/24 | 2018-12-24 09:39:20 |
| Emotional memories | Thursday before Christmas. Suddenly I am feeling so deeply tired. … | 2018/12/20 | 2018-12-20 17:57:41 |
| Far away and deep inside | Wednesday and everything is speeding up to the Silent Night. … | 2018/12/17 | 2018-12-17 17:53:46 |
| Raining | Watching from my window I see the rain falling on … | 2018/12/16 | 2018-12-16 18:18:05 |
| The noisy confusion of life | OMG. What absolute chaos. We must be the laughing stock … | 2018/12/12 | 2018-12-12 21:45:37 |
| Green room | Saturday morning, 3:52. Been up an hour or two. Reading … | 2018/12/08 | 2018-12-08 21:35:43 |
| Weekend | I enjoyed the drive back on Sunday, very early. Empty … | 2018/12/04 | 2018-12-04 21:29:25 |
| Missing luggage | Gosh, what a week. Feels like Christmas is on us … | 2018/11/30 | 2018-11-30 20:53:52 |
| Existential caves | Well I watched The Harder they Come, which of course … | 2018/11/26 | 2018-11-26 19:37:46 |
| De Pijp | I met E for brunch today in Holland Park. He … | 2018/11/25 | 2018-11-25 19:33:14 |
| Passive aggressive | The last six months has been so crazy but today … | 2018/11/24 | 2018-11-24 20:06:39 |
| Through a glass darkly | I haven’t seen “They shall not grow old”, although I … | 2018/11/24 | 2018-11-24 19:29:35 |
| Silhouettes | I don’t read the TLS regularly but tend to buy … | 2018/11/23 | 2018-11-23 20:50:56 |
| Metaphorical shed | I seem to have retreated to my metaphorical shed this … | 2018/11/21 | 2018-11-21 18:24:31 |
| On the nightstand | Thursday evening. Been a sort of ok-ish day. I always … | 2018/11/15 | 2018-11-15 18:31:21 |
| Direction of travel | I think it’s not healthy to live alone in the … | 2018/11/01 | 2018-11-01 18:38:32 |
| Living vicariously | I’m very interested Edward Said’s concept of Late Style which … | 2018/10/28 | 2018-10-28 20:21:32 |
| Solitude | When I was younger, much younger, I noticed a pattern … | 2018/10/28 | 2018-10-28 18:48:28 |
| Drifting | Where you start/end a story can change everything. I got … | 2018/10/18 | 2018-10-18 20:28:02 |
| Story lines | Eleanor Oliphant has now reduced me to tears twice, and … | 2018/10/13 | 2018-10-13 19:20:37 |
| Totalisations | I’m enjoying reading Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. I’m such … | 2018/10/06 | 2018-10-06 19:52:21 |
| Crying in the car | Just been cooking briam, which has become one of my … | 2018/10/01 | 2018-10-01 19:42:52 |
| Camera obscura | There’s something very special about books that reaching emotions, as … | 2018/09/26 | 2018-09-26 19:34:11 |
| Cheltenham Road | It’s Wednesday evening and I’m listening to one of my … | 2018/09/19 | 2018-09-19 19:29:59 |
| Perhaps not | I’ve always found human behaviour fascinating, probably because of my … | 2018/09/06 | 2018-09-06 19:16:29 |
| Right brain | The greatest observers of humanity are novelists. Some years ago … | 2018/08/26 | 2018-08-26 19:09:57 |
| Rural broadband | Sitting in my kitchen in the Wiltshire/Dorset borders on this … | 2015/08/06 | 2015-08-06 20:39:22 |
| Joy | I love conversation. I love reading and stories, and sometimes … | 2015/07/04 | 2015-07-04 20:41:51 |
| Paradigm wars | In the past I’ve got caught up in all those … | 2015/07/03 | 2015-07-03 20:44:30 |
| El Viento de Djemila | Just come in because the wind is too cold. It’s … | 2015/06/21 | 2015-06-21 20:46:56 |
| Schmoozing the room… or not | I’m completely hopeless as schmoozing, at working the room (whatever … | 2015/06/14 | 2015-06-14 21:00:45 |
| Separateness | I am looking for a break from myself and the … | 2015/06/14 | 2015-06-14 20:57:51 |
| Decompensation | Too close to home. The singularity. The fractured narrative. Descent … | 2001/12/13 | 2001-12-13 21:41:36 |
| Regeneration | I burned out in 2001 whilst working as a community … | 2001/05/13 | 2001-05-13 20:53:47 |
| Neoteny | Cold winter’s night. I was delivered at home in Ickenham … | 1947/02/15 | 1947-02-15 21:26:13 |
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