Author: Alastair Johnston (149)

How to really switch off on holiday

I'm going away tomorrow with my nearest and dearest for a well earned holiday. So, in order to make the most of my time, I...

Mindfulness and allotments

I never thought there would be much joy in digging heavy soil on a hot August evening. It's not something I would choose to do,...

How the Instagram crowd ruined Bullet Journal

“I stopped Bullet Journaling because I wasn’t getting as many likes.” she confessed. At last, Ryder Carroll addresses something that's been bugging me for a...

Can your todo list app do that?

Next time you’re planning to buy groceries, can I suggest that instead of tapping them into your phone, maybe using a list app, that you...

Lunchtime dip

Have you ever seen a frog in a pint glass? The water was cold and I'd removed a few leaves and bits of grass from...

It's nothing like The Good Life

Apparently allotments are a little like hen's teeth. When we moved to our current house my wife and I had the idea of getting an...

Snow days

Finally, finally, we managed to get a bit of sub zero weather. When I was a child, it was pretty standard fare for January and...

Happy New Year Happy Place

Happy New Year from a happy place. A cold and breezy hilltop, bathed in January sunshine, with the people I love most. I hope 2019...

Candlelit Tablet

Sometimes I think that as the days grow shorter and it gets colder, I just want to hunker down and sit out the winter. With...

Don't be an Amazon Serf

I don’t leave reviews on Amazon. And I don’t think you should too. You see, leaving reviews seems to be the right thing to do,...

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