Colin – Iain Douglas Stewart

We had Covid

By Iain 25 January 2022ReflectionsNo Comments

Jake brought covid home from school with him a couple of weeks ago. It quickly infected me, then Jane, and to a milder extent, Jane's mum and dad. We had a round of PCR tests, and they came back positive. Ten days of quarantine, or isolation, or whatever you want to call it. I was glad for the time off…

Theory test passed again

By Iain 25 June 2021Reflections, The MissionNo Comments

So I had to retake my theory test simply because the pandemic had caused too much time to lapse. I casually remembered that I had booked it the night before the test, mild panic set in, and I quickly took three or four mock tests on the theory test app. I passed the first one, but then massively flunked the…

Self-isolation, quarantine, whatever this limbo is; week seven

By Iain 6 May 2020Creativity, Physicality, Reflections, Site Related, The MissionNo Comments

Time is strange at the moment. It goes fast, but feels slow. Days take ages, but are over before you know it. This strange coronavirus limbo is warping things. It's so quiet outside, it's unreal. Eerie. Spooky. It feels like the entire world has been paused. I didn't get a rowing machine in the end, I'm ashamed to say the…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 27th March 2020

By Iain 27 March 2020Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

Due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, there was no college last week, or this week. Last week I caught up on my work, wrote up my thoughts on the case studies, but it did feel a little odd. It was hard to concentrate. It is still hard to concentrate to be honest. It’s taken me until now to properly formulate…

The “Lewis becoming an adult” thing

By Iain 6 February 2020Reflections, Site Related, The Mission, VideogamesNo Comments

This is going to be hard to write without sounding jaded, or bitter, but I'm going to try. My nephew, Lewis, turned 18 recently. He's Jane's sister's first-born, and I've known him all his life. I don't know where to start with how I feel about my perspective on all this, so forgive me if it seems disjointed. So, as…

About the old me

By Iain 4 September 2018Internet, Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

Hey. My old blog, Waves, is gone. Here are the old “About Me” pages. They are no longer relevant to me, my mission or my desires.

Gizmo. We let him down.

By Iain 4 September 2015ReflectionsNo Comments

He died one year ago today. He was an awesome cat.

In the end, we let him down. We never realised how bad his breathing had got. We took him to the vets on a Monday, he had a blood test and had antibiotics on the Wednesday. When they had little to no effect and he got worse, we were scheduled to take him to the vets, we were the last appointment of the day, so he could be kept in overnight if need be.

Bi-yearly update 2014

By Iain 26 June 2014Books, Creativity, Internet, Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

Hey, this is going to be an epic update, a half-year special so to speak. I’m going to go back and take a look at the targets I made at the start of the year and see how I’m doing with them.

With regards to the Fitness Targets – I’ve done nothing. I don’t know why. Can I not be bothered? Or do I feel like I should be doing something else? I think I feel like I should be drawing or recording videogame footage, but then, I don’t really spend enough time doing those things either, so I have no idea. I reckon I should draw up a timetable, allocate my time. It would illustrate that I have more time than I think I have. But then again, now I’ve said that I’ll put off drawing it up and won’t change until I’ve drawn it up. And a plan like that is ridiculous to think about now seeing as something that I never imagined would happen at the start of the year is happening…

Friday Update 24/1/14

By Iain 24 January 2014Reflections, VideogamesNo Comments

I'm writing this late Thursday night because we have to be up early tomorrow. Jane's Dad's brother died a couple of weeks ago and tomorrow is the funeral. It's gonna be a tough, tough day. I had today off work as I have loads of holiday left to take, so I wrote three weeks worth of Random Game Friday, something…

level up noise

By Iain 8 December 2013ReflectionsNo Comments

35 years old. Let that sink in. Thirty-five. Holy shits. I know I always say every year that I don't feel a day over 25, but for once I don't feel like 25. Jane got me a couple of really nice shirts that I am too fat to wear comfortably and some teabags. Claire, Lewis and Ethan got me a…