Senses working overtime #567

1 Word of the week: Forward

2 Watching: Formula 1 - Drive to Survive Season 8

Season 8 delivers the same high octane drama of the previous seasons. Throw in a smattering of super models, petulant drivers, control freaks and it's a crazy, fascinating world. My favourite couple is Toto and Susie Wolff. A great combo!

3 Reading: Eleven Minutes - Paulo Coelho

4 Listening: The Mutton Birds - Envy of Angels

Chock full of great songs that one and, be warned, I can't get the earworm She's Been Talking out of my head.

5 Listening: New Wander to Wozza's Music Club playlists 

Weather with you continues and is joined by WTWMC #6 (2026) tracks our Album of the Week selections.

Overtime: Helen Hayes

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

Senses working overtime #412

1 Reading: Nick Hornby - Dickens and Prince

2 Listening: Reb Fountain - Iris

3 Viewing: Formula One - Drive to Survive (2022 season)

4 Reading: Mojo Nov 2022

5 Listening to my latest purchase: John Mayall Bouquet of Blues

Overtime: Ambition and entitlement - James Clear

"Ambition is when you expect yourself to close the gap between what you have and what you want.

Entitlement is when you expect others to close the gap between what you have and what you want."

Senses working overtime #361

1 A Terrible Kindness

I'm the first in our family to get a dose of covid-19. This week my senses have been assaulted but are standing firm. My sense of taste and smell are still there - maybe a tad diminished but hanging in there.

This week's episode of JFTT is about the other ones that are carrying me through.

First up - A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe. I wouldn't have found this without a recommendation from a good buddy. It's superbly written and has transported me back in time and place to England in the late 50's and 60's.

I've managed to read it a few chapters at a time in my more lucid moments along with...

2 No Way Back - Andrew Gross

This is for when I don't want to think too much. Nowhere near as well written as A terrible Kindness, but good to get lost in and nod off to. A colleague at school lent this to me.

3 Formula 1: Drive to Survive

Another colleague clued me to this. It's noisy, brash, sweary and addictive viewing (and I am NOT a petrol head at all).

 

Again - great for when no thinking is required.

Have been binge viewing - now halfway through season 3.

4 I Call Your Name

A great playlist on Spotify that two buddies and I put together recently.

5 Knowing men - Holly Haworth

Finally in this edition, before the overtime that is, coming out of covid-ville, I read this essay about men by a woman which ends up being more about women. Just saying.

Overtime: