Minecraft, RSI and indispensability

Minecraft This year I finally gave in.  I'm a creative sort of person, and I love Lego, and I love computer games, and I all too easily get lost in both of those pastimes.  So for the sake of everyone around me, I avoided Minecraft.  It combines many of the things I love most, and I …

The day they took my wife apart

Some while back, at some point after Samuel was born, Ellie started getting pains in her chest.  It wasn't too much of a concern to begin with because it didn't always last long and didn't stop her doing things, but gradually it became more and more of an issue, and eventually led to an ambulance …

The mundane and the ordinary

I've been using Twitter for some time now, both for personal and professional purposes.  When I was running my own business and operating as a freelancer, Twitter became an extension of my online identity and advertising; I used it to promote my business, show off work I'd done, and generally try to show myself to …

Home improvements

One of the joys of living in rented accommodation is that if something breaks it's not up to us to fix it.  For instance, a couple of things have gone wrong recently, and both have involved calling someone out to fix it, at no charge to us.  That's not to say that either couldn't have …

Coping with change

Yes, yes, I know.  It's been absolutely ages since my last blog entry.  And I've not been particularly active on Twitter lately either.  Nor really on Facebook, for those of you who know me there as well.  But there is a reason for that. Thing is, now that I have a 'real' job, working in …

Still broken

Five months.  That's how long I've been incapacitated so far on account of my own body.  To start with it was just a pain around my belly button that wouldn't go away.  That turned out to be an umbilical hernia.  I lived with that for a few months before I had an operation to put …

In his father’s footsteps

Apart from his delivery date, Samuel has always been early.  He was wide eyed and taking things in right from the very start.  He was on his tummy lifting his head fairly early, relatively speaking.  He was sitting early.  He was standing early.  He was walking his way around the furniture early.  It's as if …

The waiting game

The body is an incredible invention.  I've often marvelled at its beauty, its intricacy, its delicacy, its toughness, and above all its ability to heal itself.  It's that last one that I've been wondering at most recently, in light of the little umbilical hernia I managed to get and the corrective surgery that followed.  Perhaps …

Camping in the slow lane

There's something about young people that fills me with optimism.  Perhaps it's their all-encompassing world view.  Maybe it's their insatiable love for life.  Or possibly even just because I remember being a young person myself and how crucial it was in my development.  Whatever the reason, I've discovered I all to easily agree to help …

All patched up

Good news folks, I'm on the road to recovery following my hernia operation.  I won't bore you with the details... oh, who am I kidding, this is a blog after all. Friday didn't feel ominous or troubled at all.  There were no dark clouds, no rumblings of thunder, no vultures perched on the lampposts.  It …