The message...

Did I tell you I had emailed Marlow Rowing Club about rowing again? Well I did...

They have just replied asking me about aspirations...

What are they? I know what an aspiration is! But I need to realise what mine are... I need to get back them.

Time for a change...

I just got a new watch so I need never be late again. Also I need never look at the back of my arm again...

I knew there was no watch on my wrist. But why then when being asked what time it was? Or for myself, wondering what time it was, would I always look at the back of right wrist?

Anyway, here is a picture...

What you think? It tells the time, the date and the day. Brilliant. Now if only mobile phones were this simple...

Midlife crisis... Or what?

I have been thinking about starting to row again. It is something I used to do a lot of and actually got quite 'good' at... or so friends (and the memories) like to tell me. And I'd never really got it out of my system when I was abruptly 'forced' to stop.

'Forced to stop'? Well, a career in education usurped any free time that I had. And a collapsed lung (attributed to the activity of rowing), contributed to me bringing my time in the sport to an end anyway. I could (and did), for a while coach, but I never really felt satisfied with my progress toward the various targets that I given myself all those years ago...

But now I have time. Or at least, more time to fill and along with family and all the other stuff, I have decided to try and fill some of it with rowing. I'll let you know how it goes, if it goes at all but I have sent a brief email introducing myself to the 'local' rowing club and await a reply...

How exciting? Like I said, I'll let you know...

Employment versus leisure...

I am gainfully employed. But I would like more leisure.

Recent lack of blog activity...

No excuses really... been busy. Doing nothing as it turns out... I have a job, a job I really enjoy but that contract will end in about 12 months so I thought I'd have a look at what's out there.

Looking didn't take long. There is not a lot to look forward to if, you are in possession of the slim, vain hope of finding useful, gainful employment... which is actually rather depressing. Actually... 'very' as opposed to 'rather'.

I'll post something more cheery later in the week. I have some job sites to register with and I need to finish the short film I've been editing. I read last week that the screenplay I was going to write (having never done it before!), was already in production...