I feel very lucky to have fallen in love with such a clever person. It means that sometimes our lunchtime discussions involve "Here are our agreed steps on how to educate the country to provide a more effective democracy".
Also sometimes we share birb memes.
Today I learned that the word 'pied' means to have two colours. Like a pied butcherbird (black and white)
The Pied Piper was pied because he wore two vivid colours.
https://www.dailywritingtips.com/the-pied-in-the-pied-piper/
We received a letter with a foolscap page of handwriting promoting the Jehovah's Witness website. I assumed it must have been a photocopy but looking closely we could see where the pen had bled through the paper.
Even if you'd memorised it this must have taken 15 minutes to wrote. Say one thing about the God-botherers. They are incredibly dedicated.
Running my own business can be a lot of work and stress. I have the work of making websites as well as all the work of running the business plus it makes holidays a bit tricky. To, in some way reward myself, my wife and I have taken to a morning walk on Mondays.
Monday morning, when everyone else is just getting to their desks and knuckling down, we are looking at the sea.
Today I'm a bit obsessed with Web page drop-down menus and whether there's a perfect solution and do I need to support the 1.5% of people who aren't loading their Javascript?
I've had a lot of moments where I've felt over-whelmed recently. A big work project plus various other chores. When I'm like this I get a sense of trying to keep everything in my head at the same time.
Recently I've been making it a practice to keep lists and to concentrate on the thing that's in front of me. Everything else will be there when I need it. I just need to keep my nose to the grindstone rather than fretting over all the grindstones yet to... nose.
As I come to the end of the Queen's Birthday long weekend I reflect that I feel properly relaxed and ready to return to work.
I wonder if I spent three days on every weekend would I feel this each Monday afternoon or would my laziness grow like a turtle filling its tank.
The message of Doctor Who when I was younger was "Men! You don't need to use violence to solve your problems. You can be calm and use your wits and confidence."
What rankles me the most about Chibnell's most recent story-line is that it adds the caveat "...if you were born a girl".
In a society where unpopular and impressionable men are getting more and more aggressive and entitled it just seems like such a loss.
Whenever I think about it it makes me feel "punchy".
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