It may have come to your attention that I’ve not been very good about updating this site. This is due to several reasons:

1. I’m lazy. There is a huge psychological barrier to logging into wordpress, finding the Add New tab, composing a post, previewing it, realising it looks shit, editing it and then hitting publish. Far easier to write 140 characters on Twitter instead.
2. I don’t really have so much to say these days. The way I’m using the internet and connecting with other people has changed drastically. I’m sharing far less personal stuff. This blog served the purpose well when the kids were at home, I had limited adult company during the day and I lived mainly in my own head. Now, maintaining a blog is just another chore.
3. I’m trying to channel my writing fu into, you know, actual writing – 4581 words into my current writing project for the win!

Anyway, I’m trying an experiment and moving over to soup.io. I’ve been playing with it and it’s so much simpler and quicker to link to something interesting, write a quick note, share what you’re doing in other places on the web.

So if you’re interested, come on over to pewari’s soup. If you’re not then thank you for a great six years, it’s been fun!

So, rather embarrassingly I have reached the age of 35 (and 17 years of driving) without being able to reverse park a car.

I don’t know why this is. I am not thick. While not a terribly confident driver, I am competent (mostly). I also have issues copying techniques as a mirror image during my martial arts class, so potentially there’s maybe a co-ordination issue going on in my brain.

Anyway, since selling the folding camper, there is now a space in front of our garage. The driveway is narrow and involves reversing round from a weird angle and squeezing between the wall of the house and a large hedge.

Last night, I finally managed to park it (okay, I did about a 10 point turn to get it in, but let’s not get picky), so I send Akra a triumphant text in which it appears my typing is as bad as my driving: “YAY! I managed to park the cat!”

WTF?