Light At The End…

A random collection of thoughts

Random Thoughts

After what seems an interminably long length of time, I’ve finally rediscovered the writing “bug”. It turns out that I have a couple of connected stories, written some years ago, which are just waiting for some real hard editing and finishing up. Of course, that means first proscratinating a lot […]

Time for a Word(s)

October 20, 2024 in Books / Covers / Personal tagged Adobe / Affinity / img2go / novel writing by Jonathan Rudderham

Welcome back to my blog! Some time between my last post and now, my blog died with a “WordPress White Screen of Death”. With my job taking up my available time, and my desire to stare at “screens” all but vanished completely, I didn’t have the will to sit down […]

22 Months Later …

August 12, 2024 in Personal by Jonathan Rudderham

In over half a century of life, I’ve managed to live on such paltry means of income that I’ve never had to seek government help in the way of benefits. That changed for the first time last week. On the realisation that my savings would run out before my coding […]

Universal Credit

October 10, 2022 in Personal / The Real World / Universal Credit by Jonathan Rudderham

Boy, it’s been some time since I’ve posted here. Anyone who’s followed my posts over on codeRunner.uk, will know that 2022 has been a pretty tough year for me. My main source of income dried up in a pretty rapid and sudden manner back in February, and it’s been tough […]

Fork In The Road

October 10, 2022 in Personal by Jonathan Rudderham

The downward spiral

April 17, 2022 in Personal by Jonathan Rudderham

We live in a strange society whereby enough people are prepared to pay over £3 for a single cup of coffee that there are coffee outlets swarming over the High Streets like a plague across the land, whilst others are wondering if they’ll find another £3 to replace their jar […]

The Coffee Quandary

April 11, 2022 in Personal by Jonathan Rudderham

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything here. Admittedly, I’ve recently been side-tracked with my person Upskilling Journey over on code:Runner(UK), which has preoccupied me for the last couple of months. That’s only really one part of it, though. It occurs to me that the main reason is […]

Facebook-a-No-Go!

April 7, 2022 in Personal by Jonathan Rudderham

The legacy of last year’s “three months of agony” forcing me into doing 3x3km daily walks… (Originally posted on Facebook.)

Longest Move Streak

April 5, 2022 in Personal tagged Originally posted on Facebook by Jonathan Rudderham

When it’s a choice between a thimble sized amount of ink for your printer, or eating for a week, something isn’t right…

Something isn’t right…

April 1, 2022 in Personal tagged Originally posted on Facebook by Jonathan Rudderham

Self-control

March 31, 2022 in Personal tagged Originally posted on Facebook by Jonathan Rudderham

Doggie Supplies

March 30, 2022 in Personal tagged Originally posted on Facebook by Jonathan Rudderham

Last online shopping day before my birthday, so had to get my cake early. Didn’t have a lot of options from Morrisons, so ended up with this one (mainly as it was on a “flash sale”). Sadly, such are the ridiculously short “use by dates” these days, it’ll need eating […]

Birthday planning

March 29, 2022 in Personal tagged Originally posted on Facebook by Jonathan Rudderham