As I have mentioned before, I have used dating sites on and off for most of this century. I tried most of the mainstream sites at one point or another but after a bit of experience with them, I realised…
Home
Sussex has been my home for many years. My mum’s side of the family has lived here for quite a while and we settled in Newhaven after my dad came out of the RAF, having looked at other options, including…
Escape into Europe – 2022
Back in 2019 I started planning a trip to Scandinavia, taking in Midgardsblot Festival on the way. I bought a ticket for the 2020 festival and a month long Interrail ticket (with senior discount) to take me around. Then we…
Music and Working Out
Music: inspiration, pleasure, relaxation, background, aural wallpaper. Music can affect moods and affect how you approach different tasks. It can also set you up psychologically to achieve better things. A couple of weekends a few years ago, whilst I was…
Going for Goals
It’s easy to get overwhelmed with the urgent and necessary things in life competing with those things that you want to do to achieve ones goals. We all have 24 hours in a day as an entitled company CEO has…
Be My Valentine
So, another year when I am single on Valentine’s Day. Unlike a lot of other singletons, I am not upset by couples declaring their love for one another. Maybe it’s because I am a romantic at heart, and, if I…
Music and Genres (part 4)
At the beginning of this century I found myself single again. That spurred me on to start thinking about attending gigs and going to clubs again. I found a goth community in Brighton and started going to the events that…
Dating in 2024 – part 3
In the past I have set up accounts again and again on Tinder, Match, Bumble, OKCupid and Veggly. From all of those I got a few Tinder dates, one on Match and one from Bumble. Most were coffee shop or…
Lockdown and Me
I originally wrote this during the first Lockdown and have decided that it still gives a good reflection of what I was doing then, so I have decided to include it. Hi, it’s the tail end of August in what…
Music and Genres (part 3)
After coming back from France in 1990 to finish off my degree in Coventry, I got back into the gig going scene again, watching a variety of bands at the Poly, locally, in Birmingham and a bit further away. There…