My mornings start with a walk in the dark, and a sunrise.
It’s normally my practice to drop things into these posts during the week, but this week I don’t seem to have added anything other than the Star Wars fan video below (worth a watch if your a Star Wars fan).
That’s probably a good summary of my week as a whole, time has passed but there hasn’t particularly been much to show for it. I have had a few good rants about the Government and their lies; particularly around the provision of food parcels for school kids under the poverty line, the ongoing pandemic response, and the Prime Minister’s lies. I’ve written a good few thousand words about these things, but in honesty it doesn’t help me, I thought it might have been a bit cathartic but I can feel my blood pressure rising, so I’ve just deleted them without saving. I’d rather focus on some good things, I’m sure it’s been said that we should get angry and stay angry but does that really help? We control how we react to a given situation and anger isn’t exactly a helpful emotion. There are better ways.
Reading. I read Attention All Shipping by Charlie Connelly this week. In keeping with trying to read books that I already own rather than buying new. I found it quite hard going and nearly gave up on it a couple of times, although I think it’s probably a good book I think this was perhaps just not where my head was at. Haven’t picked up anything else since.
I am really enjoying Alastair Humphreys’ adventures around his OS map, it’s inspired me to do something similar myself. Here’s his latest post if you fancy a read, you can find a link to them all within that post.
Watching. We’ve been rewatching the penultimate season of Game of Thrones this week before watching the final season. We had some vouchers for Christmas and have used some of them to buy the final season now that it’s come down a bit in price. I was surprised by the things I didn’t remember being in this season and also by what I do remember but not the order things happened in. Looking forward to seeing how it all ends up and in the current political situation, this quote seemed quite apt:
When enough people make false promises, words stop meaning anything. Then there are no more answers, only better and better lies.
Jon Snow – Game of Thrones
Work. I’ve been talking to a couple of potential clients this week. I’m not sure that anything will come of these discussions but you never know. I’ve also been making sure that my expenses and other financial details are up to date as the year end approaches. It’s been a quiet year and I’ve not made very much money at all, but I’ll still have to go through the process of tax returns etc.
An enquiry about an online allotment talk might put something in my diary for the coming weeks though.
That’s all from me this week. Stay safe and take care.
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I can certainly sympathise with you about how frustrating the whole world situation can be. We try not to let it make us sick with stress. but rather just try to put our energies towards preparing ourselves for what’s to come (which is more isolation from the world, in our case).
The online allotment talks sound promising. I noticed that you’re signed up with “Buy Me A Coffee”. I don’t know if you’ve visited them much, but they’ve made some interesting advancements in their service, which may help you in generating a bit of extra income. If you could somehow divide up your allotment talks into free and subscription based info, it might be a way for you to supplement your income a bit. I know that you have a lot of experience and knowledge about growing a garden that I know people would pay to learn about.
Hang in there, my friend. Stay healthy; stay safe.
Thanks David, I haven’t looked at Buy Me a Coffee in quite a while actually so thanks for the heads up. I’ll take another look.
I don’t know if this will help you, but recently I did a review of some of the new features of Buy Me A Coffee, posted here: https://dbouley.vivaldi.net/2020/12/30/review-of-buy-me-a-coffee/