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It felt as if the countdown to my moving was getting underway today, ten days and the check out from my tenancy would be done and I would be driving north to start the next chapter of my life. My brother had come round to go through two storage boxes of old photographs which includedContinue reading “A mixed day”

A lot has happened since my last post, momentous changes, the Queen died, we have a new King, we have a new Prime Minister all in a week. I feel as if it should be profound somehow and am surprised it really doesn’t feel as if it is. It feels rather the same as, theContinue reading “What a week”

Mixed emotions, I suppose they are a positive though sometimes I wonder. I tell my children they are are a really positive thing, how life would be without colour, bland without emotions. I do actually believe that is so. Today I have had mixed emotions. I have been facing a potentially catastrophic financial crisis becauseContinue reading “Emotions”

Fifty years ago, I was coming to the end of a six month spell in Vancouver, working and staying with friends. It had been an eye opening time and I found the People’s University, came across the new West Coast psychology groups, attended my first ever encounter group. It was the start of a journeyContinue reading “50 Years”

I have been watching the leadership contest for this country’s new Prime Minister with ever increasing despondency. It already seems ludicrous or perhaps undemocratic as well as ludicrous, that the Prime Minister is elected by such a small group of party members. Party members I suspect who do not reflect a wide social sphere butContinue reading “Despair”

I am finding it quite interesting, challenging maybe as I am on the cusp of a major change in the next few weeks. I am really looking forward to the changes and the prospect and opportunities of doing things and living differently. As I have written before I am troubled about the political agenda whichContinue reading “Change”

It has been a funny old week. In the political world nothing of significance has changed, my concerns are just as they were and there is nothing to suggest matters will improve. In fact while this interminable leadership wrangle goes on they can only get worse in my opinion. Today I had a long conversationContinue reading “Another week”

1984 was a difficult year for me. I moved my new family out of London on 4th April and by the end of the month I was unemployed. It was a hard time. The fictional 1984 was much worse envisaging a totalitarian state. I did not see it as prophetic. Yet here we are in 2022Continue reading “1984”

They say a week is a long time in politics, it seems to be a long time in blogging too. So much has happened none of which seems particularly positive. Joanna Cherry Q.C being appointed co- chair of the Equalities Select Committee, really? She is gender critical and has a long track record opposing theContinue reading “A week”

The contest for the Conservative Party leadership and therefore the country’s next MP rambles on and in my view nobody is covering themselves with glory. Clearly, I have an interest in the Trans agenda and it surprises me how much it features in the debate. After all I understand that trans people make up roughlyContinue reading “More thoughts”