oops, I did it again

BLOGANUARY 2025 DAY 27

I am finding daily blogging a str-uh-uggle at the moment…you may have noticed. It’s partly, I think, because I have been spending a lot of time on my laptop/LinkedIn doing research and outreach for Ethical Brand Marketing, and that’s eaten into my birdwatching logbook time, so I’ve had to do adminny stuff on that, which has eaten into my recreational art time. I’ve also been poleaxed by this cold, and I don’t normally succumb to things like this but it’s dragging on and being weirdly persistent. I’m not properly ill, just my face/head is distractingly time-consuming with the prickly eyes and streaming nose and popping ears. That and the desire to just down tools at a moment’s notice and nod off, which is not really the vibes when I’d committed to really pushing forward in 2025. Still, I am managing about 60% of what I would like to be doing, which is better than the -20% which I think I’d be at if left to my own devices. That and the chaos across the pond – oh my word. I swish from feeling a sense of it’s ok, there’s just enough compassion and common sense in the world to maintain some semblance of normality, to ….what? wha? what was that? ? ? ? …. and I’m sure I’m not alone. Oh, and the weather.

So that’s my excuse for late/absent/rather moping posts. It doesn’t really feel authentic to be writing about fluffy inconsequential stuff but also, I don’t want to add to everyone’s brain-drain, and I’m not actually qualified to discuss things, and if we’ve learnt anything from sharing our views, it’s that we all have very different perspectives and opinions.

As an antidote to all that, here is a photo of my dog back in 2020 when we brought him home: