Forwards and occasionally sidewards – everyday musings of life

I’ve made some progress with my 2025 goal setting, it’s definitely something I need to work on when I’m in the mood for thinking ahead. I cannot force myself to put ideas into words if my head is somewhere else: a bit like writing a blog…

My head was somewhere else on Saturday morning, it was in grumpy land, I felt miserable; not like me.

What started that? I made the fatal error of reading the news. To my mind the world is in a mess and actually quite a scary place to live in. The more I read the more I spiralled into depression. Whatever sector I read about political, environmental, technology, finance, humanity, wildlife, it’s in a mess. Our world is so inter-connected that I cannot see how we’d ever unpick any one problem to find a solution.

The weather didn’t help my grumpiness either. Storm Bert passed over the UK…well it stuck around for a couple of days whipping things up and dumping vast amounts of rain before passing on. I cannot remember a day like Sunday where it literally rained all day and the wind howled all day too.

Thankfully we didn’t have any damage at home and only suffered a missing lid from a water barrel, that’s probably landed in a neighbours garden most likely. Plenty of unfortunate people did suffer though and flooding is certainly something we’re mindful of when we’re looking for our next house – yes we’re hoping to move, another potential source of grumpiness. Still we made the most of a rare day indoors, I caught up with reading, writing, life-admin and enjoyed watching the Vegas F1 Grand Prix.

Today we had beautiful clear blue skies and sunshine, typical I was back at work.