100DaysofBeing
Writing for a 100 consecutive days, first in 2026. No rhyme or reason, just stuff and thoughts that bubble to the fore.
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81. From Schiphol with Angst
Waiting at Schiphol, faces blurred by Gemini A few times a year, due to work travel, I end up in the Schiphol vortex. In three years of travel, I still haven’t worked out how it happens beyond it being usually in the Dutch Summer holidays. It is a bad end to a meh day, one… Continue reading
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80. Slow Sundays
Victoria Place Shopping Centre – Out of This World Show We have somehow settled into a slow Sunday routine – settled being the operative word here as no overarching thought was given to it. The starting point is usually catching the 11.30am church service and then ambling through Victoria Place shopping Centre. S and F… Continue reading
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79. Seventeen
F, cartoonised by Gemini The baby is not quite a baby anymore. Standing on the cusp of turning seventeen months, she has somehow evolved a strong will and a mind of her own. Sometimes it feels like someone took a timelapse video of L and is playing it back at 2x speed. We are here… Continue reading
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78. Life in a Song – Fire on the Mountain – Aṣa
Asa seemingly burst on the scene from nowhere in 2008, and my corner of the Nigerian Blogosphere was there for it. Of course she wasn’t an overnight success but had honed her craft for years. The Wikipedia page is a treasure trove of information, her Parisian birth, Nigerian influences and a return to formal musical… Continue reading
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77. Stumbled upon – Libation
Navidrome on my home server might be the gift that keeps giving. In today’s instalment, I stumbled on Chris Abani’s TED Talk from 2008, saved from the podcast in iTunes, and on to my USB HDD where it has sat till a few days ago. It is a deeply emotive talk, one which explores humanity… Continue reading
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76. A Tactical Slacking Cautionary Tale
Today’s Merlin Wisdom post was a bit too on the nose for me, what with my non-job searching job search. It chimes with something I had thought of before, namely recognising the value of a bird in hand and not taking tactical slacking to the extreme. A big part of the de-motivation is yet another… Continue reading
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75. Re: The Cost of Having Been Everywhere
Thinker-at-Large/ public intellectual, Alan Jacobs, (my description, though I suspect he might shudder to think of himself as one) reflects on the cost of having been everywhere, which in the main is that though he has written nearly 20 books now, not one of them is the book he really wanted to write. In his telling, this… Continue reading
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74. Perpetual Stews
After stumbling on a conversation in the Nigerian Twitter sphere about aged/ageing stews a few days ago, today I learned of a perpetual stew which is 48 years old. Wow. Continue reading
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73. The Comeuppance of the Kings of the Shit-House
Glad the anti-football, chiefs of shithousery got their comeuppance. Justice of sorts.. Continue reading
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72. First Saturday of Summer
We spent the day – a mild and leisurely one – up in Birmingham, a return to the city for a second niece’s graduation. The main event was on Friday which left us to our own devices for today. To Cannon Hill Park we went, to take in its sights and sounds and get L… Continue reading
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