Me: Dinner’s on the table!

Little kid: I’m just painting Mars!

Love this coffee.

Took a couple of weeks to get used to it after the previous regular one they sent me (which was a Columbian " Milk chocolate").

A cup of coffee with frothy milk sits in front of a package of Pact Coffee labeled "Decaf Muungano."

Overcome space and all we have left is here. Overcome time and all we have left is now.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach 📚

My first attempt at a very simple recipe my Mum used to make fifty years ago.

Little kid: “I like onion and cheese [crisps]!”

Me: “Cheese and onion pie?”

Little kid: " Eugh!"

Cheese and onion pie going in the ovenCheese and onion pie out of the oven, cookedSlice of cheese and onion pie on a plate

I recently read: How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy (of the band Wilco) 📚.

It’s full of practical if fairly obvious tips on how to write and get your creative muscles going.

Here’s a poem I wrote based on two books I regularly read to my little kid at bedtime.

Handwritten text of a poem titled "Astral Bodies" explores cosmic and anatomical themes.

Three days of feeling relatively well. Today I’m coughing, wheezing, short of breath again. Feel shot.

This went down well with the missus!

Chilli salmon on a mound of boiled rice surrounded by egg noodles and stir fried vegetables in a soy and ginger sauce

This lovely tree by the bridge over the canal near my kids' school at Toplocks is gone.

A tall tree with a textured trunk is surrounded by branches and leaves, against a backdrop of blue sky and clouds.A tall tree stands beside a house, surrounded by greenery and a cloudy sky.

The air outside is thick with the smell of tar and vehicle emissions.

Not doing my cough any good.

It’s so cold this morning, when I got back from dropping the kids at school I had to do the washing up just to warm my hands up.