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I am getting ready for bed last night, and on my windowsill (my bad is right up against the window) I have this little cactus which has been there for a long without having ever been a problem before, but somehow or other as I was getting myself situated in bed the cactus got knocked down and fell into the bed, spilling dirty everywhere, and the cactus itself fell out of the pot.

It is at this point 2 in the morning, going on three, so for a moment I had thought about just going ...

This entry is just an excuse: an excuse to take my mind off things, and to post some ace pictures my brother-in-law took a couple of weeks ago.

In about July last year, my son started fencing. He's wanted to fence for ages, but we couldn't find a club that would take him until he was 12. But then last year a random search turned up a club only a couple of miles away who take kids as young as 8. So we popped down there and he gave it a go. He loved it, loves it still, and it's been ...

I recently read "The Trial" by Kafka and I found it to be quite the interesting and enjoyable story, and one of the things of which I really like about it, is the fact that it does offer so many possibilities. I can come up with such a variety of different interpretations and it works on so many different levels.

On Goodreads there is a discussion group which is presently discussing the book and one individual brought up the possibility of K suffering from guilt in relation ...

'If you have the patience to go on counting, you discover that these pairs gradually become rarer. You encounter increasingly isolated primes, lost in that silent, measured space made only of ciphers, and you develop distressing presentiment that the pairs encountered up until that point were accidental, that solitude is true destiny [...] Mattia thought that he and Alice were like that, twin primes, alone and lost, close but not close enough to really touch each other'
Solitude of Prime

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Summer's here and with it come summer projects and, any chance I can, time on the water. This summer I bought a new kayak and I've been foolish about it ever since, taking it out three days this week alone.

Recently, I've enjoyed paddling the backwaters of an area reservoir; it's filled with wild life and most motorized boats don't go near it because, unless you are expert at finding the deep river channel, the area is far too shallow and unpredictable to navigate safely. But kayaks ...