When I bought a kamado grill (a fancy BBQ), I joined a Facebook group to help me up the learning curve and set the tone when I posted my first question querying what looked like a crack in the fire bowl only to be ridiculed by a lot of men (only men) who told me it was supposed to be there to allow … [Read more...] about The Benefit Of Complication
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Thinking Wistfully About Nostalgia
Some neighbours with too much time on their hands have organised a street party for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee next weekend. There are requests to bake cakes and instructions to move cars after the council grants permission to close the road. It all feels like a lot of unnecessary faff for … [Read more...] about Thinking Wistfully About Nostalgia
Car Trouble
Sometimes the things we get most worked up about turn out to be a drop in the ocean and unimportant anyway. The renewal notice for my car breakdown insurance appears through the letterbox and a feeling of dread stirs within. Every year it's the same. They put up the premiums astronomically, … [Read more...] about Car Trouble
Money, Money, Money
I did an interview with the money management app company Cleo. They wanted to talk to me about how money impacts our mental health and what we can do about the ways in which it often seems to undermine us emotionally. The link to the interview comes through while I am looking at ceramic … [Read more...] about Money, Money, Money
Shortcuts
Shortcuts often seem alluring in their promise to get us somewhere we want to be faster than we thought possible, but most of the time they don't really work, and anyway, sometimes we use them to get to a place that we don't really want to be. I'm in the garden painting the third coat on the … [Read more...] about Shortcuts