Jake – Iain Douglas Stewart

Week 25 – 2025

By Iain June 22, 2025Weekly UpdatesNo Comments

16-06-2025 I'm struggling with working out how to structure files and folders - I'm still torn between using tags and folders because I like folders, I like things being organised, but on the other hand, tags keep things together and makes related things easier to find. Just one tap of a tag and I can see everything that has the…

Week 24 – 2025

By Iain June 15, 2025Weekly UpdatesNo Comments

09-06-2025 I took the weekend off of from thinking about moving over to Obsidian, and I think it helped. I slept a lot, and I've come back with back with fresh thinking. I'm working on organisation, and keeping connected things connected. 10-06-2025 Today I wrote my weekly progress post on my blog, but I'm wondering if it would be better…

Week 23 – 2025

By Iain June 10, 2025Weekly UpdatesNo Comments

In an effort to chronicle my progress in the various avenues of my life, I have started using Obsidian in an effort to organise my thoughts and design processes. One of the features is a daily note system, in which I just jot down a few notes of what I've been doing that day and at the end of week…

Further thoughts on my father’s passing

By Iain March 27, 2025ReflectionsNo Comments

So, my Dad died. As I said in the other post, we weren't close by any stretch of the imagination, the last time I saw him in person was in maybe 1997 or 1998 when I was in my early twenties, the last time I spoke to him on the phone was in 2019 on Jake's birthday (I didn't actually…

Rest in Peace, Misty

By Iain March 10, 2025ReflectionsNo Comments

In what is becoming somewhat of a pattern in 2025, there's been another death in my life. This time it was our beloved cat, Misty. He had developed a problem with his lymph nodes, and a course of treatment was way out of our budget. And it wasn't even guaranteed to work. So we made the hard decision to have…

James Drysdale Stewart

By Iain February 17, 2025ReflectionsNo Comments

So, on the 14th of February, I received the news that my father had passed away. Now, before I start, please be aware that although he was my father, we were not close. He left our family when my brother and I were very young, and while we did go and stay with him and his new wife for a…

Progress

By Iain December 19, 2022Reflections, The MissionNo Comments

I'm coming to the end of my knee's recovery period, and I've made quite a bit of progress since first being off work. I put up a bookcase upstairs, sorted out a bunch of old clothes and bits and bobs I don't need anymore, and sorted out my bookcase downstairs somewhat - it's still a work in progress but I'm…

I don’t know where my motivation has gone

By Iain August 11, 2022Physicality, Reflections, The MissionNo Comments

I try and keep it positive on here, which is why it's been quiet recently. A lot of negativity in my life right now. Stuck in a slump and I just don't know which way to go. Work is awful right now, people have been leaving for years and have not been replaced, and it's got to the point now…

Monday service: A fear of success

By Iain March 14, 2022Reflections, The MissionNo Comments

This may be a day late again, but it's really no big deal. As long as it's once a week and honest, it's all good. This last week I made a lot of progress on the coaching course I'm currently doing - I was really cranking out the words, I think I wrote about 2000 all told, with research and…

Monday Service: A day late but that’s ok

By Iain March 7, 2022Reflections, The MissionNo Comments

Last week was productive. I wrote a little piece about it being the third anniversary of Keith Flint's death. I had been sitting on it for a while, juggling it around in my head until it made sense, then when I realised the anniversary was a couple of days away, I wrote it up. The timing was perfect as it…