My rambling blog posts!

 Let's hear it for friends!  30th of July, (yesterday as I'm typing this), was international friendship day, hence this blog post... For me personally, friends are very important, especially after the last year and a bit; I, like most people, had a rough time with it, (and I was lucky enough to keep working throughout, so my thoughts go out to those hit with financial woes due to the pandemic on top of everything else), I'm one of those who stick to social distancing rigidly, I didn't go on holiday or day trips, (I'm still not currently truth be told). I didn't see anyone other than my friends at work so, outside of work it has been fairly isolated.  Yes, I'm truly lucky to have Rox and the boys, but I'm also blessed to have some amazing friends who have been there for me throughout in various ways, be it a friendly chat, dropping off essentials, checking in on us all and even a few gifts, (unnecessary but greatly appreciated), just because they are natu...

 There are two subjects that we aren't meant to discuss - religion and politics, so let's discuss them... I know a lot of people, many of whom have differing views on both religion and politics, (and probably music, food, books, brand of washing powder, etc), and you'd be amazed how little it comes up. I know nowadays it's the done thing to argue and bicker about every single little thing but I'm genuinely tired of it.  When I was between the ages of 18 and 20 I desperately wanted to argue about anything and everything, I was an almost militant atheist, to the degree that if you were religious I would want to prove my opinion is more valid than yours. Similarly I would happily bicker with anyone who had differing opinions politics-wise, in fact this was a regular happening.  As I write this, I am 38 and although I am still very much an atheist and left-wing, there has been a definite shift... I don't like to argue about that stuff anymore, in fact - if somebody ...