The Great Lockdown of 2020 Being forced to stay at home for weeks on end allows the energetic and self-directed to invent new ways of filling their time with productive and satisfying activity. This would be an interesting topic for Marxist thinkers to develops in terms of alienated labour. However, for someone as basically idle …
Category: blogging
A Collation of Links
This entry is somewhat remarkable in that consists solely of links to other people’s blog entries with almost no discussion or intervention. I do most heartily commend all of the pieces, but admit that it also functions as an easy historical record for me of a period in which I have not blogged. I suppose …
My Silence – Part One: Personal and Political
Anyone who follows or followed this blog can hardly have failed to notice that, with one exception, it has fallen silent since October 2010. Those who have followed it previously will also know that silences are a not uncommon occurrence and are a result of my depressive episodes. However, although 2011 was a very bad …
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September Miscellany (2010)
September has been a very good month. A score of 7.07 on the Depression Scale which is the second highest ever and by far the best September. This may be partly because I am now marking more generously. It may also be partly because there is always something of a positive reaction when I emerge …
Diary June 2007 (OP)
June 22nd 2007 Another diary blog, covering in haphazard form the past few months. I have in fact at various times during these months felt capable of blogging, if only at a rudimentary level, but have desisted because I have felt that any blog should reach a certain standard, and also because I felt I …
Net Life (OP)
28th June 2007 The serendipity of the past few weeks has been coming across a number of debates and discussions about blogging (well I have met a lot about depression and mental health too, but I am probably attuned to see these even where they don't exist!) and indeed 'net life' as a whole. These …
Malcolm and Barbara, Linebaugh, Fallen Angel (OP)
13th August 2007 Last week we watched Paul Watkins' remarkable documentary 'Malcolm and Barbara', which recorded how Malcolm fell ill with and eventually died of dementia. Filmed over a number of years the documentary was at times almost unwatchable in its unsparing presentation of the reality of dementia. Sadly, the programme's message was obscured by an absurd media …
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Very Very Late August Miscellany
I have not written about the big D., my mood or what has been happening in my life for some months now. I was just preparing to do so at the very end of August and was ready to comment on how excellent July and August had been - the best August since my 'mood records' began …
Moving Toyshop
Ellen has very kindly pointed out to me that I have never really explained the title of my blog! A pretty daft omission but there you go. The primary allusion comes from Pope's Rape of The Lock, a favourite poem of mine ; the exact lines (from Canto 1) are as follows... >>With varying Vanities, …
My Blogging Philosophy
This is something I wrote in July 2007 but reading it back it seems quite as valid now as the day I wrote it and will explain my philosophy of blogging to anybody who is starting here.... Another diary blog, covering in haphazard form the past few months. I have in fact at various times …
Moving Toyshop 