On a Clear Day I Can See Wales

• Life Coaching... One From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1117 days old)

  In one of those strange twists of fate that crop up when you least expect it (or when I least I expect it), I’ve won a life coaching course in a raffle. The news came perfectly timed: on the same day … more

• Contentment verses complacency From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1134 days old)

  I’m a big one for change. When I sense change approaching, the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end and the souls of my feet tingle. Why this is, I don’t really know. Perhaps it’s some inherited … more

• Cape Town and back again From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1141 days old)

  I kind of knew it was coming. Scrawled in a journal somewhere back at the end of July or early August are these words "The next few weeks are going to be mental, in one way I can't wait for them to be… more

• Nan, positive thinking and festivals (again) From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1181 days old)

  Don’t you hate that? I was busy tapping away onto my blog, pressed some key – I’m not sure what - and the fucker went back to the previous screen and lost everything. Twat fuck hoar bum wee. Now...… more

• Distractions From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1197 days old)

  I met someone last weekend who doesn't smoke, doesn't drink, doesn’t have a TV but who was - surprisingly, despite all that - interesting. He avoided distractions as much as possible, he said. Distra… more

• Two Years In Tod From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1203 days old)

  A mellow Todmorden Sunday Afternoon goes something like this: Kate Bush on the CD Player, SD sketching at the table, sunlight dipping in and out of clouds, falling through the window, on the window si… more

• Sunday Tea and Halifax From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1211 days old)

  ...or what I did last weekend.Sunday Tea. SD can take credit for this idea. Katie was coming over and we were talking about what we (he) could cook for her (he's ace - he comes to my house and coo… more

• Bad things From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1218 days old)

  Why do we do things which we know are bad for us? Why smoke, drink, eat sugar-filled food, lie in the sun, watch Big Brother, waste time (i.e. watch Big Brother), spend money we don't have, blah bl… more

• Summer - not in the city From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1224 days old)

  Summer has settled over the Calder valley again. Intense sunlight blasts over the top of the woods and into the window of garret, where I sit to type. SD is asleep on the sofa with the Guardian Guide … more

• Returning From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1231 days old)

  I’m never sure of the value of, and always quite uneasy about, routine. Another Saturday morning in the window, typing away on this battered laptop, which is little more than a portable electronic typ… more

• Live From a Todmorden Window From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1239 days old)

  It’s one of those beautiful mid summer nights that are impossible to put away. The sun must have set about an hour ago and just over the church tower the sky is still a light blue colour – azure, I th… more

• "New" Bolton From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1246 days old)

  There are musings that linger on the pages of my notebook for weeks on end with “blog” scrawled next to them – ideas and rants I think (when writing them) need a “public” airing. I’ve forgotten most o… more

• Getting back to it From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1253 days old)

  Lately, I have been dis-jointed from life. I've been randomly scribbling in my notebooks for the last month, plotting this, that and the other - but it's all been around the edges. I have been walk… more

• In some strange country called Canadaland From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1281 days old)

  After the long, work and writing filled days before coming out here, it all, suddenly, fell upon me. Hard to believe, after months of no-planning at all, we are here in deepest Canada, home of the mou… more

• Whatever happened to April? From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1298 days old)

  I seem to have lost a month. One second I was stumbling into the second quarter of the year and now suddenly it's the second third. I may have been abducted by aliens. Or perhaps it was the numerou… more

• Death and stuff... From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1318 days old)

  Death. Okay. It's not the most cheerful start to a blog, I'll grant you... When I was young I used to lie in the bottom bunk-bed, staring at the wire mesh above my head, and I would try to image it… more

• Early Signals Are Promising From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1331 days old)

  "So what are you going to write in your blog this week then?" "I'm not quite sure yet." "Well - I thought it'd be obvious." "Really? What?" "Well... you know." "No. What?" "Well me, … more

• Waking up (again) From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1338 days old)

  Thoughts following a reading by Jeanette Winterson at Manchester University on Wednesday night... I walk home through the streets which fill the space between Market Street, Deansgate and Albert Sq… more

• That leap From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1343 days old)

  "Are you going to write about me?" He asks. I'm not sure if he's joking (he jokes a lot) or if, secretly perhaps, he's serious. He does have a bit of an ego about him. I know he'll like it if I do … more

• Contradictions From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1357 days old)

  Apparently the publishers of Lonely Planet and Rough Guides are going to put warnings in all their future publications about the damage frequent flying does to the environment. I read this yesterda… more

• Living on the edge... From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1365 days old)

  I was in a bar in Stiges (yeah - still hung on that particular adventure) and I got chatting to this artist fella called Fiacre O'Rafferty. He described himself, in a croaky Canadian voice, his eyes w… more

• Home Time From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1371 days old)

  Returned from Spain last night, exhausted and full of "Shirley-Valentinesque" dreams of turning around and heading back out there. 11 that morning, I'd been sitting near the beach, the sun on my face,… more

• What is it with… Wednesdays? From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1382 days old)

  Maybe it has something to do with school and PE. PE was always on a Wednesday afternoon – on a cold, grey, wet Wednesday afternoon. Always. I’d stand by the goalmouth talking to my friend Ritchie w… more

• Waking Up From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1388 days old)

  I left my friend Claire’s house this morning and walked onto Alexandra Park Road to get the bus. It was another freezing morning, the same blank canvas sky which has lingered over this region for days… more

• When is a date – a date? From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1397 days old)

  You know something’s up when the Chief Executive of the organisation you work for starts arranging dates for you. Yes, the 2006 dating season has begun. According to my Chinese horoscope for the Year … more

• The Trouble with Ennis From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1404 days old)

  My flat is particularly freezing tonight. Just got home from Manchester and had to bundle clothes ON so I can live inside my own flat. I'm bored of this winter thing now. Watched Breakfast on Pluto… more

• Big Brother is Watching From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1409 days old)

  I really like Channel Four news, but they seem way off the mark with their Ruth Kelly and that "sex offender" allowed to work in a school scandal. Has the editor and Jon Snow been overdosing on the Da… more

• Recovering From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1409 days old)

  Well, I survived. Just. Hideous time in the hospital. If there’s one place on Earth you shouldn’t go to get better, it’s an NHS hospital. I mean, I appreciate that it’s free and the staff are lovel… more

• Nil by Mouth From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1416 days old)

  Just had a call from “Mark at the hospital” informing me, very politely I might add, that they have a bed for me tonight. “Lucky me!” I said, not enthusiastically. Now don’t go reaching for that b… more

• Frozen From torrmoon in On a Clear Day I Can See Wales (1423 days old)

  There was ice on the inside of my front room windows this morning. It had dropped so cold, so suddenly, last night, that the condensation had frozen in lacy patterns right across the glass. It was the… more

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