No need for improvisation on the latest Corner Cottage project. Creative juices not required to flow. It’s a pretty bog-standard sand-and-paint, and yet it’s all in service of an upgrade in quality of life as summer leans in on us more and more, bright and hot.Just to rewind a little, let’s think about the kinds …
Last time I got my head above water enough to post something up here, I mentioned stalking butterflies as a current, unsatisfying obsession. At the time, this was included to build a feeble case about the inexorable cycles of nature, blah blah. But we all know this was just a thin and ineffective balm for …
If you’re coming here for words of wisdom – and who could blame you if you are – I have a doozy for you today. And that is that nature moves fast. Now I’ll be the first to concede that this message has been subtly embedded in a lot of the stuff that passes for …
So much of what winds up as what’s currently known as ‘content’ on these pages is couched in terms of obsession and the unintended consequences of fossicking around in rabbit holes. Let’s not take this opportunity to delve into that particular issue, which would just get a bit too meta for a Sunday. Suffice to …
It's been a whole week since the last update -- the longest hiatus since we started our journey together way back in March or April or whenever it was. Not that there's been much of note going on at Corner Cottage: it's more that there's been a lot of very little. But today something very …
Sometimes you just can’t anticipate how things might turn out. Even when you set out to do something quite ordinary and usual, events can take an unexpected course. The human imagination just can’t take in all the possibilities the universe can throw at you, which means there’s always the potential for a surprise, even if …
The funny thing about obsession is that it isn’t funny at all. Many of these posts are the result of one obsessive pursuit or another, and many’s the mention of being drawn into rabbit-holes as one link on the interwebs leads to another two, or four, or so on. One bee in the old bonnet …
The knowledge that a waiting world is suspended on tenterhooks – or ‘tender hooks’, as they are sometimes known – awaiting news of the bird feeder that started construction so many weeks ago has been a constant burden to this unemployed freelance writer. Rest assured, work has continued in a desultory fashion over the intervening …
Yesterday I thought I saw a platypus! This deserves an exclamation mark due to its unexpectedness – I didn’t set out to find one, but to paraphrase the Bard, some people achieve platypus and some have platypus thrust upon them. I hadn’t given platypi much thought – there was a vague notion that they were …
One of the familiar phenomena arising from the COVID-19 lockdown is the iso-beard. Chaps and chums all over the globe, liberated from the repressive regime of grooming for work, have thrown in the razor and joyfully sprouted facial fungus. On a recent four-way Zoom with some UK mates, three participants were sporting some degree of …
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