Always trying, is how I seem to live, no matter what I am doing I am always trying for instance tonight at pool I just wanted to do my best and was unlucky. When I walk through the door after work I try to do something to help the household like laundry or tidying, at […]
The last few days I have I have thought a lot about drinking again and the questions are always the same but I have to make the answers fit how I am feeling. Today would have been ridiculous not complete my second dry January on the trott and when I feel like this I have […]
After last year Lincoln was the first name down for Young Voices 2023 and tonight we went to the AO Arena to watch him sing along with 8500 other stars. Heather Small was also on the bill and many other entertainers but there was only one person we were watching in the whole arena It […]
Themed evening at youth church this evening all the children were asked to dress up as a character starting with the first letter of their name. Reagan decided on Repunzel, a princess unaware of her royal heritage, commended for her spirited, lively personality and independence. sounds about a perfect character for Reagan to be? She […]
Had such a great conversation with Jamie today discussing relationships and what it means to be happy. We all want to be happy but don’t work on being happy with what we have enough or fully work through our feelings instead trying to be someone else pulling up facades and putting on masks to hide […]
Lincoln had not been enjoying gymnastics for a few weeks but because we had paid for 10 lessons the rule is if you commit to something you need to see it through, he carried on until today. Lincoln started gymnastics when he was 7 but really took to it when they said he could learn […]
I questioned my sobriety today after dreaming about Guinness, and whether there is any reason why I need to deny myself something I want and have enjoyed many times in the past? The only answer I could come up with was 440 days, and how I would feel if I broke that streak and maybe […]
I discovered Renèe Fleming this evening an American Soprano who I’d never heard of before but have just spent an hour in the bath with and Ave Maria amongst others… and was emersed in so many ways. Music you do not have to listen to, was what I was looking for, to relax with and […]
Got told tonight that my mind had been read as I refereed a pool match, and apparently I was thinking that if no-one noticed I was not going to call foul against my own player? Now as referee my decision is final and it took me a couple of seconds to assess whether a foul […]
I heard someone say that on a show we are currently watching called “I shouldn’t be alive” where people recount near-death experiences and it is such easy watching and a great laugh taking the piss out the stupidity of some people before we go to sleep. When you realise that being happy is the most […]