Below are 25 random things about me

1. WYSIWYG means that you are looking at the real thing.
2. Red, the word, is a colour, an adjective, an emotive description, and fortunately, somewhat ambiguous.
3. I started writing a series of paragraphs, like a diary.
4. The cat is always very affectionate around feeding times.
5. Hard work can be fun.
6. A boardroom contains nothing unless people are there.
7. Change is very very interesting, but sometimes not very responsible.
8. For vacations, I like going to cities.
9. Butter is better with a little salt.
10. Very neat is often a style that confines you; but you have to respond to the usual in-outs of life.
11. The best energy saving method is to limit air leakage.
12. 3 siblings, 2 sisters and a brother.
13. Sometimes I hope my brother is having a hard time.
14. 3 previous lives and a tragedy: Joshua was born to my first wife in 1970 but we do not communicate.
15. Hampshire and Baker Street were touchstones in my 3rd life: we had a farm in Hants and a cottage in Wales. Sheep, cats, ferrets, beef cattle, donkeys, riding to hounds, ditches, drainage fields and built-in libraries were bits of the puzzle, a guy sniffing aerosol in Winchester Cathedral.
16. I cannot see the point of being mean.
17. Bees and chickens.
18. A pot answers a need but more interesting is that it conforms to the physics of our world and yet brings the beauty of its creator's effort to , say, the kitchen sink.
19. People need help.
20. Cinema Paradiso
21. Hot and sour.
22. If you don't talk, that makes space for another to talk.
23. Had a great education, not that I wanted it at the time.
24. Dad was right, most of the time; but mum was much more interesting.
25. Never broke a bone 'til last autumn.
26. Spaces affect how we behave.

New Beginnings

The nice thing about searching for another job is that you can, if only for a brief moment, decide that you will be a different person - perhaps a shoemaker, or mason, or even a potter Like Bernard Leach. All your personal history and tradition can go into a dream of change. A glow of anticipation. All your fun times, those moments that meant the most in your informal education - Scouts and school dances, travelling on a train and riding to hounds - become grist for your response to the opportunity. Naturally the uncomfortable things about change, like being more or this or that, get lost in the glow of reverie - a kind of future memory.

Intro

This is my first post.  As a test of the facilities that Blogger provides, I will send some longer nonsense this week.  I seem to have a lot more time now that I've been made redundant.  Now I have to go into work and get my .pst files, stapler, and coffee cup.  It's goodbye from me all over and I'm feeling sorry for myself.