I remember the start of lockdown, people working from home and putting in the same hours in front of a computer in the back bedroom found that by missing out on the daily commute they could achieve a better work/life balance than they could previously. Meetings over Zoom and Teams meant that contact with coworkers …
Continue reading How did it get to be needing to work back at pre-pandemic speed and levels?
That'sthe Olympic games over until Paris 2024, as well as great sporting achievement another theme has surfaced hereand in other sports, the need to look after your mentalhealth. Naomi OsakaImage from Wikimedia Commons Naomi Osaka was the face of the Tokyo Olympic Games. In June this year she announced that she would not be taking …
What is so good about normal? Does anyone actually think Britain before lockdown was an idealist utopia? So why is there this desire to return to normal when that normal is flawed. It looks like there is a vast lack of willingness to help when society could be enhanced. "I want to be able to …
I clicked on one of those adverts that crop up on social media. It could have been Facebook or Twitter, all I know is that it said free. Get your hearing checked free. Creative commons picture from Hadley Paul Garland on Flickr I am always sceptical of these adverts, I have heard of computers having …
Why is there so much bad news? The reason is that bad news happens fast. Good things tend to be slow. Why is there no smallpox in the news? Because it has been eradicated, the last naturally occurring case was diagnosed in 1977, even then the WHO did not declare it extinct until 1980. Apart …
Continue reading There is a lot more good news than you think
The concern of Jesus — part 4 40 blogs of Lent — day 15 What goes into the mouth does not harm us: Not usually, we tend to avoid toxins. There I go again, being over literal when reading the Bible. That's the autism talking, I can miss it when people are talking figuratively, even …
People, in places where many buildings, including churches, have been closed temporarily or voluntarily due to corona vaccine are wanting their buildings back. The latest, question in the UK, on this day of compiling a blog post from notes (Monday 25th January 2021) is "When will schools open?" My answer to that question is that …
Psalm 74 — Psalms of Asaph Who wrote this psalm? There are three possible answers to this question: Someone using the name of Asaph from the time of the Babylonian exile.Asaph prophesying the destruction of Solomon's Temple.Asaph talking about the destruction of the home of the tabernacle at Shiloh There are reasons for each of …
Continue reading Have you rejected us for ever? — Psalm 74:1
"May you live in interesting times" is a term from the far east, and it is a curse. 2020 feels like that, interesting for all the wrong reasons. But I have a reason to be cheerful, on my left upper arm is a vaccination scar, which probably marks me out as a boomer, sorry about …
Continue reading 2020, a retrospective (Mostly about Covid-19 and vaccination)
This blog post was written before the recent news about several vaccines being in a late stage of development, and may be ready for large scale distribution in the spring. There is even more reason to be optimistic than when I wrote this. This is not the new normal Some people are saying that this, …
Making an ass of myself 