SONGS AND SCRIPTS AND DUNKING BISCUITS
Every day tales of a winging-it creative
Category: writing
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I read somewhere recently that said attention span on social media is now down to a shocking 47 seconds per article or post. Ten years ago is was around two and a half minutes. And apparently, the average time spent reading blogs is 16 seconds. Which suggests that most people have given up on this…
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On December 14th 2020 I posted a blog – only my seventh blog at the time – ruminating that Jesus seems to have less and less exposure at Christmas. It was in large part inspired by a bulletin I wrote for a charity one mid-summer informing all their shops that Christmas cards were being distributed…
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With more excitement than is probably necessary, I have just placed an order for my 2024 Day by Day Diary. It will be arriving with great ceremony, tomorrow. Or more likely I’ll get a text telling me it’s been un-ceremonially left in the garage. Normally I prefer to choose my diary by buying it from…
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On Wednesday of this week, October 4th, the rail workers in the UK decided to have a ‘day of action’, an ironic term of phrase for a national strike. Pretty much all the trains in the country didn’t run at all. This post isn’t about the strike, although I do broadly support their issues to…
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Ever needed to put blogging on the back seat when other commitments come around? Although that’s the case for me at the moment, thankfully the reasons are positive ones.
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When we are a teenager, which of course covers the years when we are fully cocooned in school, to the years when we are released to the ‘freedoms’ of getting a job and actually earning money, we make many wrong choices and waver between unearned confidence to unnecessary insecurity. I was more the latter, in…