Tag: Thoughts
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101 Tasks Update
We interrupt the normal proceedings of this blog, for a scheduled update of the 101 Tasks in 1001 Days challenge. Painting the world orange5. Clock up at least one visitor to my blog from every country in the world I’m not doing too badly with this challenge so far, considering I’m not really doing anything…
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Storm Front
Between the rain and through the wind, the lightning illuminates the horizon. Low cloud is coming inland, the sandy beach completely covered by a swarming mass of murky and cold-yet-clear seawater. The jagged rocks, slowly starting to fade to invisibility, with reflections more clear than the real thing, are once again braced for the oncoming…
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Celebrating Sixty Glorious Years (and one song)
I’ve just finished watching the Diamond Jubilee celebration concert for Her Majesty the Queen, and I have been quite moved. The crowds… the music… the lights… the fireworks… the Keep Calm And Carry On… it was an amazing concert. I was moved not by the images from yesteryear throughout the Queen’s reign. I wasn’t moved…
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Self Portrait
I look nothing like I think I do. I think I look exactly as I did years ago, but the mirror tells me otherwise. The mirror lies. The mirror points out flaws I never knew I had. Truths I never believed existed. Flaws that would never exist on me. I’m perfect. Well, apart from the…