When did my plans become excuses for inaction? At Wendron Primary School in the 1970s we would be sent outside for our breaks. Sheltering from the drizzle beneath the playground crabapple tree we would play Tiggy . To play we would first work out a plan. Like crows and jackdaws us kids squawked the rules of the game...

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff I have been slowly replacing the rotten timbers on our front veranda. Broken Hill summer is making the work hot and cooking my brain. It has been especially warm in the afternoons. Yesterday I escaped to the couch with the swampy cooling the house and watched Gurdjieff in Armenia . I have...

I have been getting a lot of emails of yachts for sale. Maybe the used boat market is more active at the moment. The Clansman's are my favourites but I also like the Viking 30's (like this one ) and this Herreshoff H28 looks fancy. Troy and Pascals' Mirrool - a Clansman 30 GRP Sloop The Clansman was built and...

I ditched the idea of comments on my website years ago. I did not want to be the shepherd of other peoples thoughts, it was none of my business. John Constable's thoughts often drifted to clouds The years have rolled by and I have reconsidered... perhaps sometimes it is my business. I went so far as to add a mailto...

As previously posted I have added commenting to my site. I used the methodically named Pelican Comment System by Bernhard Scheirle . Bernard seems to have abandoned the project but luckily for me it is still working. There was a couple of glitches I ran into... Pigeon post, not as fast as a Pelican Comment The first...

I just read this article by a chap called Connor Jackson about sailing his little Contessa 26 from Fiji to Australia. He had already sailed most of the way in a 31ft Hunter. That is all I have to say about that. In other news I added ChrisJacks 2014 blog to the links down at the bottom of this page. ChrisJack is not...

If Cardiff was plonked onto Broken Hill along with the rest of the UK. Credit I know I am struggling when, like in a recent post , I start writing lots of lists. This post started as a list of bicycle rides around Australia. I quickly concluded that I could instead cherry-pick what other people have written. I am...

Like many armchair travellers when not thinking about sailing I'm thinking about cycling . Looking ahead to 2024 is no different. UPDATE 30/12/24 I have long considered doing the Mawson Trail but have prevaricated for many reasons, mainly because I am a social chap and shy away from going alone. I read a friends...

It just occurred to me after writing that last post how much of this blog is about thinking about what I'm going to do. When I actually do stuff I don't write it up on the blog because I'm busy doing it. I suppose we can only hope I stop posting stuff soon then... ... Permalink

Feck me that last post was smug. I am embarrassed. Me at my dullest... old and worrying about money, sheesh. ... but er, this blog has always been full of posts I am ashamed of. I just leave them there to remind me to stop being such an idiot. For a time I used to think of my blog as a dumping ground for all my...

Is the rock getting lighter or am I about to drop it again? It has been over three years since I posted about money. There is a reason for that. Like many of us I have an uncomfortable relationship with the stuff. I did a series of posts to try and work it out. I was unsuccessful. A thought about this, that occurs...

I try to avoid posting about my work here except in very general terms. I obviously cannot write about my patients or colleagues. I have to self-censor what I write which often makes expressing myself difficult. So, here I go... In general terms. Nursing, much like many other jobs, has infinite capacity to suck up...