I’d love to say that I’ve got used to the famine/feast aspect of self-employed life.
But it would be a lie.
”Before Ramsbury, I was a nowhere man, living, as my parents did before me, in a multitude of places without really putting down roots in any one. Ramsbury made me a somewhere person.”
— Peter Marren, The Consolation of Nature
This is true of myself and Shoreham Beach.
Why I do beach cleans — in just three photos…
The new “Apple Silicon" MacBooks looks very tempting as a replacement for my elderly MacBook Pro — but perhaps I should hang on until next year.
It might not be all Zoom, all the time, by next summer…
The vaccine news is, at least, promising. It does give us a glimpse of a future where the virus is much, much less of a threat, and that makes me wonder: will we see a struggle between those who want to embrace a new normal, and those who want to force us back into the old ways?
There’s no doubt lockdowns are hard; that unfamiliar feeling of liberties removed, of freedoms curtailed. But last time, it helped bind communities and families.
Will this one do the same?
Just successfully sourced my coffee filters from a local business rather than going reflexively to Amazon.