Reasons to be Cheerful – The Future’s Bright

So, there still isn't much change for me on the life front - still spending the vast majority of my time at work (making for very boring posts right now - sorry!). It's all still a little fraught, and, well, blah. But there is one particularly good piece of news that is keeping me going [...]

Weird People Who Catch My Bus #1 – The Shoe Girl

Friends of mine will already know this story, but it's a good 'un, so I thought I'd share. So, I'm catching my regular bus home from work. It's about 5.30pm, so it's pretty busy, and it's been a nice day so there is a larger than usual assortment of undesirable people on board. Think topless dudes [...]

Reasons to be Cheerful – Keeping it all in Perspective

Up until this weekend I was pretty sure I was going to have to skip this week's Happy Monday. That kind of negates the whole point of my Happy Monday posts, because the whole reason I started doing them was to make sure I focused on the positives instead of the negatives, but it's genuinely been [...]

Strange Things I Think About While Walking the Dog…

It's good for the soul, dog walking. Apart from getting you off your expanding backside and out in the fresh air, it gives you lots of time to think. This can be super helpful, when you have a particular tricky situation going down at work, say, or you need to let off steam after a [...]