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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47. Baader-Meinhof
I think I spotted my first properly purple Nissan Qashqai, and now it seems they are everywhere. The Qashqai is of course one of the more popular UK cars, I just haven’t seen many in that colour. The Baader-Meinhof effect, I suppose? Continue reading
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46. My Blogger Archetype – Author and Community Gardener
Robert Birming, increasingly my gateway to a small, close-knit section of the IndieWeb took James’ Blogger Archetype Quiz and shared his results. I dived in of course, such is my fascination with Enneagrams, personality tests and the like. Here are my results You are a Author You love writing and have a growing backlog of… Continue reading
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45. Weird Assistants
Picking up Zadie Smith after a long time away has me all in my feels about how much I have missed her excellent way with words. On my current reading docket is her essay collection: Dead and Alive. One of the essays in the collection is The Instrumentalist: On Tar from which an exchange (which… Continue reading
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44. Favourite Poems
There is a certain type of poem I like (as do most people I suspect); poetry which takes the mundane, quotidian things of life and grants it a form of transcendence. A bonus is it being simple, without any of the overtly scripted flourishes which can come across as contrived (to me at least). I… Continue reading
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43. Gina tells all
Stumbled on Gina Yashere’s appearance on the One54 Africa podcast very recently, and just had to listen to the whole thing. For some reason, it took Bob Hearts Abisola for me to come across her (impressive body of work) but the more I learn, the more impressed I am: British-Nigerian (with roots in my corner… Continue reading
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42. In threes
Micah 6: 8 popped up on the app I have been using for listening to a daily verse, instantly grabbed my attention, and then reminded me about something I had read a while back on rhetorical devices (found after furious googling). Truth or underlying faith aside, I suppose there is a reason statements of faith… Continue reading
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41. Murakami on Writing
To write a novel I have to drive myself hard physically and use a lot of time and effort. Every time I begin a new novel, I have to dredge out another new, deep hole.But as I’ve sustained this kind of life over many years, I’ve become quite efficient, both technically and physically, at opening… Continue reading
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40. Not (yet) Buying the World Cup Hype
Italia 90 was my first World Cup, with each one since then eagerly looked forward to and anticipated. The current edition is the first one which I am yet to buy the hype. The optics and politics can’t have helped, as have Nigeria bungling the opportunity of a life time to be at an expanded… Continue reading
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39. Podcast Fatigue
As an avid listener to podcasts, I spend a good chunk of time collecting and adding to the list. The threshold for addition isn’t really that high; usually boiling down to: As of today, I have 496 pods in my feed, some of which are admitedly dead and are far too many to listen to… Continue reading
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38. Taxes and (Gen)AI
It’s that time of the year when HMRC commences sending nagging reminders to file one’s self assessment taxes, even though the deadline is in January of the next year. I usually leave it till late until I am spending half a day organising the paperwork then beating it into a summary for the (online) forms.… Continue reading
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