Oh Hey

He’s blunt!
He’s crass!
His name’s a steep land mass!

It’s hard to know how to make an entrance without looking self-important, but “Hello. It’s good to be back here and thanks for reading.” Thanks also to my dad for posting while I was away.

So hi! How are you? Have you been on holiday or something, cause you look great. Or you’ve had some work done. Kicked the smokes. Working out? Whatever, but something, because you look good.

Me? Oh, I’ve been spending two weeks with the Atlantic Ocean lapping at my toes, enjoying views (see above), not having my life ruled by a series of beeps and wavs and the times of the day broken down into no more than five easy segments instead of thousands of seconds.

It was good being in the moment instead of preparing for what you can’t really predict and then reacting to whatever it is you didn’t expect. But that’s life I guess. I expect the people whose job it was to stick little umbrellas into my drinks on holiday have no easier life than I.

It was ok knowing the holiday would end. There’s a saying that if it’s not fading, it isn’t real. That’s a good way of making you enjoy what’s passing and not paying too much mind to what you think won’t.

Or to put it another way, enjoy the ice cream and not the bowl.

So yes, hello. I’m going to spend a few days talking about holiday stuff because everything happens when you’re gone, right? Including a new frontrunner for quote of the year by old lady sitting next to me on the plane when she told me: “It’s frightening how quickly a quarter of an hour can turn into an hour.”