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Archives for November 2025

All right.

If you’re ready.

That’s where it gets a little nervy and maybe even frightening.

Hope you’re okay there.

And delighted you found a cafe just round the corner to get a coffee to recover from this ordeal.

Perhaps you treated yourself to a pastry as well.

And then you met a friend who said, “I hope the results are good,” and you crossed your fingers all the way through.

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A noodle, a surfboard and an electric motor.

Someone would say these all walked into the bar together.

There is a link, they are connected.

Perhaps only in the eye of the beholder of the thing written here.

Or…?

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Dim summers, bright winter.

Should it be the other way rounď?

My paintings exceed the maximum velocity of brightness.

So it stands to reason that owning one painting could reverse the seasons.

Or, at least your reaction to them…

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The pie was still frozen solid.

The chart was the same as last month’s.

Eating was ill advised.

Progress was unreported.

So many meanings, so little guidance.

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Helped and hindered.

I put water in the pot.

Boiled the kettle.

But, I had not shopped for food.

Pick the radishes from the garden. Chop them into thin slices and act accordingly.

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