The spaces between the spaces.

The spaces between the spaces is a paraphrase from a line in Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull and to be honest it’s a pretty corny line, but, it got me thinking. As we enter into 2022 I have had some time over the Christmas break and New Year to reflect and

Hollywood Wives (husbands,partners)

This blog post is a follow on from “The one you don’t forget” so you may wish to read that one first but it’s not necessary. Following that blog my wife and I were discussing the incidents I have attended over the years and how I sometimes come home and talk about them. As the

Chink

“There has to be a chink in all of us because that’s how the light can get in.” I am paraphrasing this from a character in “Unforgotten” the TV detective drama as it struck me when he said it. The detective was under some scrutiny, was a nasty piece of work but clearly had some

Wisdom 18, 547,

As I write this post the number above is how many months or days I have until I can retire from my role in the fire service. I have never been one to ponder on the past or time left and always felt it was more about how long I have left to make a

Iceolation and Disconnection

Cold weather, cold times, cold hearts. Warmer weather, warmer times, warmer hearts. 2021 a new beginning!! Yeah right, or we continue into an unknown time of new words and new experiences. Lateral flow, PCR, Astra Zeneca, Oxford vaccine, Biontech, tiers, daily death rate etc. It’s easy in this time to forget what we were about

Perspective 2020

I didn’t really know where to start with this next blog, so many things I could write about, so many comments I could make or opinions I could have, but yesterday two things happened that led to the title above. Firstly the image popped up on my social media timeline and secondly I was in

What a time to be alive

At this moment in time this could be a truth or a lie. I don’t normally post political stuff on here and whilst I will be a bit political in the post it’s for a reason. Earlier this month 322 members of parliament voted not to extend the free school meals for half term despite

Time and Motion

02/09/1992, that was the day 28 years ago when I walked into Coventry fire station at the start of training school on day one of my fire service life. With a fair wind, some good fortune and staying healthy I will retire on 09/09/2022. That means on the day I release this blog post I

Strength and Trials

Strength is just the ability to care more deeply than anyone else around Tara Coleman “Treadstone” The above is a quote from “Treadstone” a tv programme based on the Jason Bourne movies. I have repeated it here because in June it struck a chord with me when I was watching the programme but the draft

Return

More and more we are hearing “the new normal”, “things won’t be the same”, “when we get back to some sense of normality”, “things will never be the same”. We hear these words from government, media, companies, employers, social media etc and they all feel like they are there to scare us, to keep us