Joe | Joe's Jottings https://joepritchard.me.uk Being the homepage and blog of Joe... Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:46:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 Be prepared… https://joepritchard.me.uk/2026/02/be-prepared/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:03:56 +0000 https://joepritchard.me.uk/?p=8565 …unlike me. I currently drive a Ford Focus – about 10 years old. I like it. It exhibits more intelligence than any car I’ve driven previously, and, going by my recent experiences, more intelligence than me. About a month ago, I noticed that when I got in to the car and turned it on, the […]

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]]> Lonely, alone and the tech bros https://joepritchard.me.uk/2026/01/lonely-alone-and-the-tech-bros/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:53:35 +0000 https://joepritchard.me.uk/?p=8561 I’m a member of the Church of England and occasionally lead the people in my church in what are called ‘Intercessionary Prayers’ – sometimes also called the ‘Prayers of the people’. These are prayers written and led by church members each week, and cover a variety of topics – prayers for the church, our leaders […]

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]]> The joys of fishing tackle catalogue porn… https://joepritchard.me.uk/2026/01/the-joys-of-fishing-tackle-catalogue-porn/ Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:03:51 +0000 https://joepritchard.me.uk/?p=8558 I’ve recently been watching a TV show featuring Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer called ‘Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing’ . As is often the case with me, I’m late to the game and have found I have about 6 series to watch… In each episode our heroes literally go fishing and we share the experience, […]

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]]> There’s something in my eye… https://joepritchard.me.uk/2026/01/theres-something-in-my-eye/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:10:43 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=7875 I have always been prone to crying through most of my adult life. I’ve never been one to boast of a stiff upper lip – I can hang on under certain circumstances but I will express my emotions when required. And sometimes – I just like a good cry. Music, books, films, TV shows are […]

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]]> The long-lost book… https://joepritchard.me.uk/2026/01/the-long-lost-book/ Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:44:19 +0000 https://joepritchard.me.uk/?p=8429 This isn’t a post about a book that I’ve mislaid, or lent to someone and never got back. This is about a book that I should have written, but didn’t. A few months ago I was sorting through some files in my study. Whilst I have a couple of small filing cabinets, they don’t really […]

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]]> Relevance https://joepritchard.me.uk/2026/01/relevance/ Wed, 14 Jan 2026 08:40:22 +0000 https://joepritchard.me.uk/?p=8488 “The new year arrived and I realized i lived past my relevance…” A few weeks ago I came across the above quotation. Much to my embarrassment I didn’t note where it came from, but I get the feeling that it was the first line of a poem. The second part of this line – ‘…but […]

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]]> Goodbye Facebook, it’s been nice… https://joepritchard.me.uk/2026/01/goodbye-facebook-its-been-nice/ Tue, 13 Jan 2026 07:02:31 +0000 https://joepritchard.me.uk/?p=8492 Have you heard of ‘Enshittification’? It’s a concept created by Cory Doctorow, and it’s summed up on Google as: …the three-stage decline of online platforms: first attracting users with good service, then prioritizing business customers by degrading user experience, and finally extracting maximum value from everyone for shareholder profit, leading to unusable, value-sapped services like […]

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]]> Waiting for Blog Posts https://joepritchard.me.uk/2025/12/waiting-for-blog-posts/ Sun, 14 Dec 2025 08:24:03 +0000 https://joepritchard.me.uk/?p=8419 OK – another few months have passed…. John Lennon is reputed to have said ‘Life is what happens when you’re making other plans‘. There is also the old saying ‘Man plans, God laughs‘. And then there’s ‘Joe is really an idle, easily distracted procrastinator.‘ You may choose your own reason why I haven’t posted. Today, […]

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]]> Normal Service Will (Hopefully) Be Resumed…Soon! https://joepritchard.me.uk/2025/07/normal-service-will-hopefully-be-resumedsoon/ Mon, 07 Jul 2025 23:04:40 +0000 https://joepritchard.me.uk/?p=8326 Well… it’s been a while. In fact, it’s been quite a while. The last time I hit ‘Publish’ on here was back in 2018 — which now feels like several lifetimes ago. Since then, the world has had a habit of throwing us all a few curveballs (understatement of the century?), and I’ve found myself […]

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]]> Warning – Inner work taking place… https://joepritchard.me.uk/2018/05/warning-inner-work-taking-place/ Sat, 26 May 2018 11:03:58 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=7923 “Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!” – John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany A few weeks ago […]

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