Well it’s been a while but the blog’s back on course! Thing is, I thought I’d retired but it looks as though I haven’t – for now at least!
So, new posts and articles on the way. Maybe the book serialisation could even begin again at some point?
Watch this space …
After a long break, here’s announcing a new project … What’s it all about? Well …
Essentially, this is a novel, an academic comedy to be precise, being written in real time. My previous attempt at fiction was fairly well received so, retired now, I thought I’d try a different genre.
But rather than faff around with finding publishers this time, I thought I’d just knock it out in instalments as an online series. There are two big advantages to this: (1) I can get feedback from readers and tweak it as I go, and (2) I can ask for small donations from anyone who’s enjoying reading it. And I’ve a particular plan for (2) …
Continue readingA loving tribute, a thank-you and a card trick: all from the heart.
My Dad died earlier this month: I don’t yet know when or if the tears will stop. He was a big man and he leaves a big hole, but filled with happy memories. I can’t exactly say I modelled myself on Dad: that was a bit beyond me. But I did follow his example where I could in the basics of honesty and hard work: painfully slowly at times perhaps but I hope I got there in the end. We were different, but each proud of the other I think.
Of course, I now wish I’d managed to spend more time with him in the last few years. The past year alone, he suffered strokes, heart problems, survived sepsis, countless other infections, pneumonia, a collapsed lung and saw off Covid-19. But the last illness was just one too many although, as always, he fought it to the end. He was just short of 90 and lived a full and worthwhile life: you can’t ask for anything more.
This isn’t the place for a poetic eulogy. But, even just in an academic sense, the older I’ve got, the more I’ve realised just how much I owe to Dad. I was never really a gifted student, despite what people might think. And I proved many times over the years the ease with which I could get into trouble of one sort or another. If it hadn’t been for the start that Dad gave me, I’d be in a very different place now.
Not entirely sure if this is numerology or gematria or what! But those of you into finding meaning in this sort of thing, try putting the following pattern …
Into a Conway’s Life simulator such as https://playgameoflife.com/
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Turing's Radiator 