Some people don’t know where Cardiff is. Most people don’t particularly care about going there. Wales. Really? Tiny. Sidelined next to the big ones. England. Scotland. What’s there to do in Wales but see sheep? A lot of sheep? And stone circles. Lots. Also sacrificial stones. This is a park. Well, yes, there are sheep. …
Google that Thing
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Google can be a light in the dark. Or is it? Don’t know the answer? Google that thing. Sitting down on the curb, on the park bench, the bus stop. Phone out. Phone ready. Just in case. Always. A thought passes through. Passes by as the cars zip …
Where Confidence Walks
There are a million, trillion different courses out there about how, by taking said course, you can become instant-confident. A bit like instant coffee. With the caffeine high too. The thing is, there is no such thing, like every trillion, billion other thing in the world, as an easy fix. Confidence is especially elusive. Confidence …
The Point of You
ARTHUR: Yeah! I love going through the X-ray gate! It’s a bit like a game show, isn’t it? There’s always that moment of ‘Will I make the buzzer go? Will I make the buzzer go?!Yes! I didn’t make the buzzer go!’ Or ‘Ohhh, I made the buzzer go!’ GERRY (laughing happily): All right, then! Well, follow me! DOUGLAS: …
Un-Becoming
As I’ve been going back through my old blog format and refreshing past posts which still speak to my present self, I stumbled on this one. I’ve been trying to find my feet with my writing voice and identity in novel format lately and this reminded me that un-becoming is a life work. It’s not …
Invisibility Exposure
Being between two people in a discussion makes for a period of invisibility exposure. You are a lighthouse beacon being stared at by a crisp’s chomping lady on break and two desk bound employees in the position of question and answer for the current project in progress. To make matters more icing than cake; being …
Bicycle Adventures
You can tell a culture by the way they ride bicycles. Not on the right or wrong side of the road. That’s irrelevant to this particular case. Rather, the riding is in where they go and how they stop. Especially in how they stop. Remember when you first learned how to cycle? Getting started wasn’t …
Harness Introvert Power No Matter Who You Are
Introvert. We like being alone but that doesn’t mean we don’t like the flash and bang of fireworks as much as extroverts. What sort of images crossed you mind then? Did you see someone cowering, shy, stuttering? Did you see a shadow or an ant, that larger and louder people cannot stand, so they step …
Be a Cloud: Isle of Skye
Above the sky, clouds streak, they bob and pass along in a mild manner more befitting a dodgy old man with walking stick than amorphous miracles of nature which humans will idly observe into definable form. There a cow. A cat. Now a ship. Stretched into a dragon. A boy reading a book. A griffin …
Bath: A Tub of History
Stylish. Unanimous. Uniform. Sleek. Polished. The famous Royal Crescent. Those words and their synonyms summarise Bath. A city which looks to have been built in one era, when in reality, it is part of as many eras as any city in these parts of the world. So what makes it so special? It’s in the …