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07/11/2020

"Then we were unlocked, set free unto the New Normal. Which looked unerringly like the Old Normal in a lot of senses. So much so that the New Old Normal brought the lines on Boris’ beloved PowerPoint graphs clambering back up the y axis and the New Old New Normal had to be eschewed for Lockdown The Revenge.

Within which time, the suspended reality of Lockdown One had evaporated into the reality of a society and economy ravaged by the consequences. Where the esprit de corps embodied by the likes of Colonel Tom had given way to a withering fatigue. Where the apparent initial benevolence of a Conservative government acting for all it seemed in the actual best interests of its people eroded from a rosy glow to the icy blue of their true colours..."

Matt on... ah, you know 🦠

https://herefromthere.co.uk/blog-time-to-change

It’s different, isn’t it? Makes you realise what a suspension of reality the first version of lockdown was. Whatever your reality was, and my god, I know mine was pretty miserable at points. But for the most part, the weather played ball and, for the most part, we all mucked in on staying connec...

Lockdown v2.0. Bring it on. One uplifting song every day we’re in this latest spell of enforced enclosure. Day 1: “Stepp...
06/11/2020

Lockdown v2.0. Bring it on. One uplifting song every day we’re in this latest spell of enforced enclosure.

Day 1: “Steppin’ Right Along” by Bill Withers

Bill Withers might well be the grand master of the musical ray of light - “Lovely Day” and “Lean On Me” might have been equally uplifting if perhaps a little more obvious choices. Personally I can’t hear this song without feeling a metaphoric inch or two taller. A point or two off for shoehorning the Lord’s Prayer into the outro but shucks, when it’s set to such a gloriously sumptuous groove, who cares ✌️

Bill Withers · Song · 1985

27/04/2020

“We truly are powder. Complicated powder with complicated lives. But powder all the same. “

Matt gets deep up high. And invents the dlog.

I’m out with my dog, Charlie. (Look. I never intended this to be a website full of dog walk blogs. Dlogs? But we are where we are. It must be where I do my thinking. Or where my thinking gets stimulated). Anyway. For most of Charlie’s walks lately it’s been either the local park or a 1 mile(....

16/04/2020

“There’s a silent car stopped at a red light on a crossroads. On its own. For maybe minutes on end. For maybe seconds. The lights go green, the car’s engine coughs alive and it moves off. Its patience and its silence are beautiful.”

Matt on a simultaneously beautiful and infuriating twilight walk with his dog.

This was going to be a lovely Facebook status update. It became something more. Bear with. Don’t judge. Our gorgeous 8 month old Golden Retriever – answers to/doesn’t answer to: Charlie/Oi/OI!/CHARLIE!!!/Forf**kssake; let’s call him Charlie – is being quite the challenge at the moment. It ...

27/03/2020

“And you’re struck by how the new normal – however temporary that might be – is going to mean an instantaneous, unspoken, body language-driven negotiation around what happens next. Who takes the lead? Who steps to which side? What’s the protocol? What if one party doesn’t seem bothered?

Because, let me tell you, they’re out there. Loads of them.”

Matt on the new normal and the importance of noticing when mindfulness becomes mindless.

I’ve been finding my state approved single daily episode of exercise super beneficial; see the Solitary Refinement piece from a few days back. But today the legs are a bit heavy and the inclination a bit sparse and I decide to skip the countryside yomp Charlie and I have been doing and opt for a l...

25/03/2020

“The first thing that hits is the quiet. The stillness. The roar of the motorway a mile to the east that usually dominates the aural landscape in these parts reduced to a isolation-induced buzz. A purr perhaps. As we move out into the countryside, the early Spring sun beats down. Bees divebomb Charlie who springs unwittingly back at them. Birds scatter from the hedgerow and settle on the telephone wires above. And the silence sings.”

Matt on the upside of lockdown and the wins from a simple shift in behaviour.

“How far am I allowed to go?” It doesn’t take long for the implications of the freshly issued orders from the Government to start to drive home. Only leave your house for four reasons, one of them being a single period of exercise per day. But define that? For some, it won’t even register; t...

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07/03/2020

Love this 👏👏👏

Scottish singer’s Livelive scheme aims to help fans suffering from panic attacks and social anxiety

03/03/2020

PODCAST: DAN BLACKMAN

A proud moment for Here From There as we finally publish our first full podcast. Dan Blackman, founder of RammyMen FC and managing director of LoveFootball, talks about his heartbreaking There and his inspirational Here.

Listen at the below link or search Here From There and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Overcast.

https://herefromthere.co.uk/podcast-dan-blackman

(*Small Print: This our first attempt EVER at recording and publishing a podcast. There’s a clicking noise throughout the recording, we know why it happened and it won’t happen again. When you listen, you’ll understand why we couldn’t record it again. And if some of the edits are a bit crude, bear with us. We’re learning. We’ll get better x)

A proud moment for Here From There as we finally publish our first full podcast. Dan Blackman, founder of RammyMen FC and managing director of LoveFootball, talks about his heartbreaking There and his inspirational Here. https://herefromthere.sounder.fm/show/here-from-there

12/02/2020

"All I can do is support and sympathise and empathise and try, try, try to rationalise. I don’t know enough to reassure. I certainly don’t know enough to predict. When my wife asks if things are going to be ok, I don’t feel the weight to say “Of course they are”, I feel a freedom to say “I think they will”. And there’s a world of difference between the two. I do not own this “wrong”."

One of the key triggers for episodes of depression for me has been when things go “wrong”. For many reasons. For an inability to see the other side of the wall of the “wrong”. For a debilitating propensity to feel responsible for the “wrong”. For a crippling need to put the “wrong” r...

12/02/2020

"And as the year started to settle to a close, it struck me that knowing how other people travel that road, how they get from their there to their here, knowing that would have been comfort. Inspiration. Company in that infinite loneliness. Not the answer to my own questions, but the start of knowing they might be answered.

And so here it is. Here From There."

At the time of writing, the date is December 28th 2019. Maybe you’re prone to reflection this time of year. Maybe you’re not. In the grand scheme of things, it’s really just another 365th revolution of a speck of intergalactic dust. But you’ve got to have something to pin your points to, rig...

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