Spring equinox or no, the winter still seems to be doing its best to cling on by its icy white fingertips. The last couple of days have even seen some little attempts at snow down here at sea level so I imagines it could well be looking a lot whiter in other parts. My own feverish cold thing at least does seem to have departed but this past week I ( Read more... )

Just when you thinks that the Fates had run out of surprises you ends up with a week like this! Not that the weekend went entirely as had been expected either. My somewhat ambivalent mood of the time though was perhaps sadly predictable as I prepared myself for a quiet weekend end away, taking care of the kitty beast whilst the humans were away ( Read more... )

"You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing."

- Arthur Schopenhauer, 'On the Freedom of the Will' (Über die Freiheit des menschlichen Willens), 1839.

The world continues to turn and puppy stumbles on with his pale parody of a life. Admittedly ( Read more... )

My, but I do thinks I shall be glad to see the end of this week! Of course I wasn't that particularly keen on seeing it beginning either but even then I didn't quite imagine it turning out the way it did. Somehow or other I managed to get my schedule just a little mixed up in brain and so the appointment in Scarborough that I thought was set for ( Read more... )

Ah, the weekend. So you're here already are you? Of course were I perhaps some kind of reasonable, rational creature I should probably feel positive and grateful for having this free day to myself which I might potentially make use of for doing all sorts of useful and worthwhile things to prepare me for such activities that might lie ahead. Sadly ( Read more... )

Another week has begun its journey into history with what feels like somewhat unseemly haste. I'm not too sure I'm particularly fond of the passage of time at the moment as it seems lately to have been pushing me ever onwards from one needless emotional crisis to the next. Indeed, for all things presently may seem relatively straightforward in ( Read more... )

Looking back over my adventures of the past few days I cannot help but wonder if I may yet prove able to actually learn anything from my experiences. That may of course be a somewhat selfishly introspective perspective given the nature of some of those days but that's generally the perspective my nature would tend to lend to pretty much everything ( Read more... )

Amongst a broad variety of seemingly relatively simple things I've always seemed to mystifyingly struggle with, I do often seem to find a distinct difficulty in quite predicting just how the world is going to appear from day to day. By which I mean, the general mood I find myself waking with may often seem to bear little connection to the one I ( Read more... )

Fortunately, the past few days seem to have been relatively more kind and tranquil than those I have seen in previous weeks. That's not to say they have been entirely without tedious incident. I didn't much need, for instance, being followed down the street by a man who could barely stand insisting I share the most amazing drugs he had in his ( Read more... )

I have to say I seem to be having one or two issues with mine, or at least the onboard computer certainly requires a bit of adjusting! Still I don't suppose that particularly comes as news to any of my tiny cadre of long term readers. Needless to say though, lately circumstances seem to have been particularly conducive towards poking at my ( Read more... )