Personal Development | Joe's Jottings https://joepritchard.me.uk Being the homepage and blog of Joe... Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:44:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 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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]]> 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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]]> 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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]]> Today me, tomorrow you https://joepritchard.me.uk/2016/12/today-me-tomorrow-you/ Sun, 25 Dec 2016 22:32:53 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=7855 A few weeks ago I wrote this Blog Post around the theme of Today You, Tomorrow Me, a ‘pay it forward’ sentiment summed up in the attitude of someone doing a favour for someone on the ground of ‘Today you need help, tomorrow it could be me needing help’. Well, me being me started thinking about […]

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]]> Adulting…. https://joepritchard.me.uk/2016/12/adulting/ Wed, 14 Dec 2016 08:18:48 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=7881 In recent years I’ve heard the word ‘adulting’ used to describe various types of behaviour.  I have to say that when I first heard it, I thought it was being used in a joking manner, but it appears that some folks use it seriously. According to the ‘urban dictionary’ website, the verb ‘To Adult’ has […]

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]]> When unfriending is the friendly thing to do https://joepritchard.me.uk/2016/12/when-unfriending-is-the-friendly-thing-to-do/ Thu, 01 Dec 2016 08:00:14 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=7837 I’m not a great social media junkie; I think I have a Tumblr account, somewhere.  I don’t have an Instagram account or use Reddit, and whilst Blackberry Messenger is (apparently) installed and available on my Blackberry I don’t have anyone to talk to on it except charming young ladies who seem to be short of […]

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]]> Progress so far…. https://joepritchard.me.uk/2016/11/progress-so-far/ Wed, 30 Nov 2016 07:49:05 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=7860 A few weeks ago I decided to try and get back in to regularly writing. This came after a conversation with my wife in which we recollected that in the 1980s I was able to earn about 50% of my income through writing – mainly technical journalism and technical books. There was one period where […]

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]]> Unhappy the land that needs heroes….?? https://joepritchard.me.uk/2016/11/unhappy-the-land-that-needs-heroes/ Tue, 29 Nov 2016 07:21:34 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1590 The line : “Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.” comes from Bertholt Brecht’s ‘Life of Gallileo’ and has stuck with me for many, many years.  I can’t remember when I first heard it, but it still rattles around my head and so I thought to myself – time for a think. I don’t […]

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]]> Today you, tomorrow me https://joepritchard.me.uk/2016/11/today-you-tomorrow-me/ Sun, 27 Nov 2016 09:04:52 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=7853 The first thing I do when I get up in the morning is feed the cats, then make tea, then sit and allow some of my higher brain functions to come online, usually whilst browsing Facebook.  There then comes a point where abstract thought is possible and then I like to write. The nice thing […]

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]]> The JAMs https://joepritchard.me.uk/2016/11/the-jams/ Sat, 26 Nov 2016 08:51:31 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=7842 A new set of initials entered the language of British politics this week – JAM.  They stand for ‘Just About Managing’ and refer to families or individuals who are just about getting by in the current financial climate, but who, by implication, might feel the pinch hard if the economic situation in the UK worsens. […]

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