Further thoughts on my father’s passing

March 27, 2025Posted inReflectionsNo 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

March 10, 2025Posted inReflectionsNo 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…

David “melatonin” Watson

January 23, 2025Posted inInternet, Reflections, Site RelatedNo Comments
Or lewismistreated, however you knew him. I don't really know how to say this. Well, he took his own life recently. Karl (Lost and Found) broke the news on the 15th of January 2025 in a group chat on Facebook that I originally set up to let everyone know that the Random Fury! forums were closing, back in 2018. I…

Monday service: Goblin mode

March 28, 2022Posted inReflectionsNo Comments
https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/03/17/goblin-mode-meaning/ I wish I'd never heard about Goblin mode... I feel awful that there's a name and a description of how things are going for me right now. I'm still recovering from the way the pandemic conditioned us to all stay inside, many of us are. I think I've said this before; I wasn't the most social of people in…

We had Covid

January 25, 2022Posted inReflectionsNo 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…

My procrastination

November 24, 2021Posted inReflections, The MissionNo Comments
Procrastination is a tricky beast. To anyone watching it may look like I don't care about anything, and I'm being lazy. But in reality, I'm crippled by indecision. I don't know what to do next. There are so many things I want to do, things I want to start, things I want to finish, things I want to carry on…

Theory test passed again

June 25, 2021Posted inReflections, 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…

L3CiCS Counselling Theory and Self-Awareness Assignment

June 26, 2020Posted inQualifications courseworkNo Comments
The purpose of this assignment is to show how learning about counselling theory and applying it to your own life can promote and increase self-awareness, by deepening the understanding of your own personality, history and relationships. This will be a very personal journey through my counselling studies so far, and hopefully a good reflection of what I have learned about…

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

May 6, 2020Posted inCreativity, 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…