The Complexity of Simplicity

In some of the many jobs I've done in my life, I found the most difficulty dealing with the response of, "That's simple." This statement was usually closely followed by a thoughtless assessment of how quickly it could get done/finished. I know the truth. Simple is never simple. Simple takes a long time to perfect. …

Maintain the Posture

Is this the time to make excuses? No, I didn't think so. Instead of trying to write up a post, I'm going to give you a potpourri of tips and tricks from other, well-known, writers. At the end, I'll give mine. Preparation ... Anton Chekhov - Six Principles of a good story: Absence of lengthy …

July, and Ta-Dah … TDF

If you don't know what that is, the TDF is the big cahoona of bike racing. Cycling, that is, not the loud ones. Or at least, the machines aren't usually too loud. It's my holiday season most years, but I'm behind this year, so I need to allocate a little bit of time to each. …

It’s the Age

For most of my teenage years (or was it prior to that heady time?), I believed it was 'The Age of Aquariums' and not Aquarius. Don't know where I could've got the idea from, but it stuck, and I hear the music with the gurgle of bubbles that ripple the surface of fake ponds. I …

The Road to Hell

It's music. Here. But someone tagged me, and it was about cities, towns, something Rudy built. Sorry, Jim, I don't do the townscapes. I was listening to music. The road to hell, to be precise, by Chris Rea. I love that music, it's music for a constant traveller. There are others. I have favourites, and …

A Daily Dribble

Or a Weekly Wee Or a Monthly monster? Not at all what you think, of course, but how would I know what you think? My psychic abilities were abandoned to the blue garden fairy when she got lost. Like most of those folk, she didn't think I wanted it back ... What am I talking …

The Real Country Life

There are times when something catches my attention and brings me to a full stop. Sometimes, it's a thing that makes me roar with laughter, and I think, 'Oh, people can be so silly/funny/outrageous.' Not this time [story here]. A person who lives in the country has a bovine for a pet. He's a Dexter, …

Where Did It Go?

I lost yesterday. ? Well, it was there in the morning, but then it was gone, and I looked for it, but couldn't find it. May is gone and June is here, and the last day of May just flew off without telling me, or letting me know it was going. Gone. Pfffffft! Off with …

Versatile? I wonder …

I never do these award thingies, but for some reason when I saw this one on Cactus, I wondered, and wondered, and wondered. And then I decided to sit down and do a few sentences, maybe not the whole blurble of it, and I'm not going to 'nominate' people (you can do it, you can, …

An Ugg-ly Battle – Again

I'd like to point everyone to another incident where a company has placed a bar on the use of a word when that word has been in common usage throughout the world for longer than man has been wearing sheepskin boots. Have a look here (especially this bit: Deckers use the brand name UGG Australia, …