Nathan Wrigley

Category: Personal

  • My happy place

    This fills me with enormous satisfaction. Every year at about this time, the temperature starts to drop, and we start to use the fire.

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  • The last time

    I’ve recently decided that I need to focus more on what matters to me. This is not from some conceit to gain more, or be more productive. It’s more about getting in touch with what really matters to me on a profound level. Finding meaning if you like. I feel like I’ve lost touch with some of the ideals that I had as a child. Ideals which, upon reflection, I should never have let go of, and which I’m puzzled that I did let go of. With this in mind, I’ve been meditating; following a course of meditation from a…

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  • Working from home

    I love working from home. There’s a few small things that are not ideal, but mostly it’s excellent. However, for a couple of weeks each summer it’s even better. That’s when Wimbledon – the tennis tournament – is on. I love watching tennis, and so I have it on another screen, with the volume set to zero. It does not cause me to have a loss in focus, but just keeps me going. So there you go. Working from home + Wimbledon = Excellent!

  • My Facebook account got suspended

    So just now, my Facebook account got suspended. Weird. I was not doing anything, was not even near a computer and none of the devices that I own have Facebook installed. I got this email: When I clicked on the only link in that email I got this: As you can see, all very satisfying and nothing weird about that! I’m 99.9% sure that I’ve violated no guidelines as I’m about as benign on the internet as it’s possible to be, but you never know! Anyway, it’s promoting me once again to consider the use of Mastodon over every-other-app as…

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  • Hay fever

    I’ve never had hay fever. Now I appear to have hay fever, and it’s brutal! I will never view the fields and the pastures and the countryside in the same way, ever again. You are now my nemesis!

  • Seasons

    I live in a part of the world where the seasons matter. In the winter, it’s cold and the plants die back. In the spring, the plants, and many other things, come back to life. I don’t think that I suffer from any kind of seasonal disorder, but I have to say that it’s so nice to see the length of the day extending, and the buds on the plants / trees beginning to emerge. Living through the seasons is a wonderful / tortuous thing.

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  • Music that I like

    I’ve always liked folk music, and this is (a taste of) something that I think sums up why I like it.

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  • Humans are remarkable

    Humans are really rather remarkable. We can do so many things. I find humans are at their very best when they create music. We won’t agree on what style of music is ‘perfect’, but this comes pretty close to me. It brings up so many emotions for me. I find it incredible and beyond extraordinary.

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  • No value

    I think that I need a place on the internet to write down some of the thoughts that I have. I suspect that I’ll post to this site quite infrequently, mostly when the mood takes me, and time allows.