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My Most-Worn Watches of 2025
First of all, Happy New Year! I hope 2026 has started smoothly for you. 2025 seemed to have flown by. A few ups and downs throughout the year. The sudden loss of our beloved cat Bowie (previous post)...
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Goodbye to Another Wonderful Cat | Bowie. 2017 - 2025
Once again, our house feels different. We wake up in the morning, and he's not sitting outside our bedroom door. We come home from work, and he's not curled up asleep on a corner of the couch. We...
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My Most-Worn Watches of 2024
Another year has flown by. I hope 2024 has been kind to you. My year was okay, with a few ups and downs, but nothing major either way. And so, 2024's most-worn wristwatches. I looked at last year's...
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2024 - September | Binge-Watching Mrs Maisel, and a New Wristwatch
It's been a busy year work-wise, but I've managed to keep my department under control and operating reasonably smoothly. I've enjoyed going to work and dealing with the day-to-day aspects of the job....
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2024 So Far - Random Stuff, Books Read & The Watches I Wore
This section below was written sometime back in June... It's been a busy 2024 so far and time has definitely flown. Back in late January, my wife and I were feeling a little worn out and we figured...
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Reading/Time No. 4 | September - December 2023 - The Book/s I Read, The...
Oh, one typewriter that I’m most likely gonna shift - I have an Olivetti Lettera 22 that has always been problematic, but seems to have gotten worse recently. The ribbon doesn't seem to advance any...
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My Most-Worn Watches of 2023
Twenty/twenty-three was an interesting year in terms of my watch wearing habits. I was busy in my job, I spent most of the year recovering from the bunion surgery that I underwent in September of 2022,...
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October 2023 - The Eventful Month - Part 1| Short Trip to Saigon & The...
Alright, in an effort to reduce the spaces between posts, I've just posted the previous one and jumped right in to beginning this next one. I started this post on Tuesday, November 7th. Melbourne Cup...
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Reading/Time No. 3 | May to September 2023 - The Book/s I Read, The Watches I...
From my last post, of July 8th; I'll start on the next post sometime in the next week or two. Sorry!Actually, the more I think about it, the more I realise that this could become a very long post, so I...
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The Cat We Said Goodbye To | Dussy. 2007(?) - 2023
This house doesn't feel the same anymore.Sunday, September 10th* (*These underlined dates represent when I actually wrote portions of this post, rather than being a timeline of events. The events took...
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Reading/Time No. 2 | March/April 2023 - The Book/s I Read, The Watches I...
Okay, thrill-seekers, no time to waste. I just put up the February post and then got started on this one. Not writing about the issues with my feet. That was covered a couple of posts ago. This post -...
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Reading/Time No. 1 | February 2023 - The Book/s I Read, The Watches I Wore, Etc.
As I mentioned in my previous post, I figured I'd read a little more this year. It's a pastime that I used to partake of more in my younger years, when it seemed that I had more free time. Even once...
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June 2023 - Post-Op Recovery: Short Dispatch No. 7 - Taking a Little Longer...
Saturday June 3rd, 2023 I actually started this post back in April, and then things got busy.When last we spoke of this foot mishap, I was strapped into a...
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My Most-Worn Wristwatches of 2022
Well, last year had its fair share of ups and downs and I wore a watch throughout them all. Some watches saw more time on my wrist than others, and I was a little surprised by the results. This yearly...
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Feb 2023 | Post- Op Recovery: Short Despatch No. 6 - A Slight Hiccup. (And a...
Wed, February 1st, 2023So, here I am again. I thought my last post might have been the last one to cover the recuperation of my feet after the bunion surgery that I had back in mid-September, but it...
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Nov-Dec, 2022/Jan 2023 | Post-Op Recovery: Short Despatch No. 5 - Walk, Don't...
December 27th, 2022 Here we are, four days left in the year. This one has had its fair share of ups and downs. I'm currently dealing with a persistent cough...
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October-November, 2022 | Post-Op Recovery: Short Dispatch No. 4 - Home....
Title is misleading, dammit. This dispatch ain't short. October 20th, 2022. So, I've been home as the recovery continues. I've been sitting at the kitchen table during...
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October 13th, 2022 - | Post-Op Recovery: Short Dispatch No. 3 - A Scar Is Born?
In our last thrilling episode, I had a slight mishap that required me to go to hospital, just to play it safe. They sorted it out, gave me some antibiotics and scheduled an appointment for me to come...
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Early October 2022 - | Post-Op Recovery: Short Dispatch No. 2 - Heel, Boy, Heel!
So, it was now almost three weeks since I'd had the bunion operation and the feet seemed to be healing okay. I was taking an aspirin a day, to deal with potential blood clots, a calcium tablet, to help...
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Late September 2022 - | Post-Op Recovery: Short Dispatch No. 1- Footloose &...
Oct 6th, 2022I might just do the odd short post here and there as I recover from the bunion operation that I had a few weeks ago. Thursday, September 15th. I...
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