Midwinter

Today is the shortest day, the winter solstice, the astronomical start of winter. The peak of the dark nights. The point at which I feel I can start looking towards lighter mornings and evenings. The joy of very early morning dips are still a few months away but now we’ve passed the shortest day I …

Winter is here

It’s grim here today. It’s been raining heavily on and off all day and it’s currently hailing. But over the weekend we had snow and cold and ice. Lots of ice! Early in the open water season my bestest swimming buddy and I agreed to carry on swimming through the winter. For lots of reasons. …

A New Direction

Careers are funny things. Back in my parents day you qualified to do something and often stayed at the same company from apprenticeship to retirement. Now, certainly within my peer group, a lot of people go off to university and hopefully find a job within the sector that they’ve studied. People move companies a lot …