Posts don’t come on a schedule. Blogs are occasional, sometimes witty, sometimes thoughtful and hopefully worth reading. Dispatches and Detours are quick reads about the fun and frustrations in everyday life.
Dispatches and Detours was always intended to be a quick-read round-up of life’s mishaps and mild surprises — an alternative to posting on social media, which I am thoroughly over. Too much AI fiction about people I’ve never heard of, too many adverts for things…
Keep readingThis first dispatch of 2026 has been slow in arriving, which feels entirely appropriate given how the year itself burst onto the scene. Less a fresh start, more kick in the teeth before we’d even finished the Christmas leftovers. I am not a believer in…
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Not Quite Settled 