Some Small Changes
I have been messing around with the format of the blog. No real reason, just nice to freshen things up sometimes, isn’t it? So what has changed? A New Landing Page Designed more for new readers than old. A very…
This is not roaming in the sense of travelling, although travel may come in here! In the end this is a blog, nothing important. I will sometimes talk about different subjects in it. I am not sure what these are and whether I will talk about them consistently.
Effectively, the right to roam. To go somewhere else. I may not take many with me but I will have been there.
I have been messing around with the format of the blog. No real reason, just nice to freshen things up sometimes, isn’t it? So what has changed? A New Landing Page Designed more for new readers than old. A very…

I like writing. I don’t only write here. It is part of my work. I keep a diary although my handwriting is so bad it can be difficult to read. I used to write stories when I was younger. Just…

I have been listening to David Bowie a lot recently. As have many. The tenth anniversary of his death was a trigger for this, of course. I went back through his albums and was reminded of one song in particular.…
Another self-indulgent series of posts, this time on songs that I like and why. The first will be I Will Dare by the Replacements. I really don’t know when I heard I Will Dare for the first time. It was…

If only you could smell a picture… The last day of holiday. Normandy. Standing outside between rain showers in a fleeting moment of sunshine. The smell hits you and it is just so perfect, redolent of the summer that has…

Life can feel like it is passing by but sometimes it is nice to just capture a moment and reflect on it. A moment in the kitchen, for example. The Kitchen: My Retreat It feels like a lifetime ago when…
Wake up feeling a little sheepish. Not quite clicking in to gear which is quite often the case for me. Right leg is feeling a little better than a useless stick and the hand is not quite gripping the way…
I love Swifts. To see the first Swifts at the end of April is so exciting. I look toward gray clouds and there it is. The first! It seems to almost drift through the sky, riding the invisible waves of…

I used to spend a lot of time in galleries. It was nothing exceptional to go and spend a full day just wandering around a gallery and taking in the images, interpreting them in my own way. When I first…
A short word of introduction to the new post category ‘Roam’. Basically, this is where I will put posts when I am not sure that they fit with the other categories in this blog, ‘Living with MS‘ and ‘Ways of…