My life

We share a communal area at the back of our houses which we all park on. No one really owns it and over the years people have built sheds and even chicken huts on it. When we have a family day, like today, everyone mixes with anyone. Dogs run around and kids play. We feel we are lucky in the village to have this where the rest don't. Everyone gets on with everyone. But I don't get the impression other neighbours are the same. We don't live in each other's pockets and I would hate to go back to... Sign in to see full entry.

One idea for ending my novel would be to have the people living in the virtual world have a groundhog day that would last 10-20 years. Think about the film and then think what would happen in you could reset the clock and go back to being 18 years old. Then live the next 20 years the way you remember it. But this time you would iron out all the mistakes. Sign in to see full entry.

I am fascinated by the latest advances in artificial intelligence. My own interest is in fiction. I'm trying to finish a novel where the main players all live in a fake world, but it's better than their real one. To that end, AI would feature highly. But the real reason is in artificial consciousness. What if we could transfer our very soles into the machine? Most people would think this is blasphemy, but I'm beginning to think it's our only way out of the mess we call the world. Sign in to see full entry.

Have to take Mother for a blood test today. The doctors seem more worried about keeping you out of their car park than seeing the patients. Sign in to see full entry.

Visit to the Dentist today. I'm lucky to have my own teeth at 62, but I live in fear of the man drilling into my head. At least the weather is nice. Sign in to see full entry.

I notice that nowadays, all I want to do in the evenings is sleep. A while ago I could sit through a complete choice of the BBC, Netflix and a host of YouTube channels. But now, I battle to stay awake. And I feel guilty about not cramming more into the day. I now have a vast choice of programs to watch. Even the golden classics from childhood. All the science fiction I want. But can watch none of them. Sign in to see full entry.

I know I've let this account lapse, but I would like to carry on making entries. Little has happened to us. Mother is recovering from her stroke, and getting better. And I'm still looking after the horse. Financials had changed little. The slowest rate of change in living memory, for the market. Other irons in the fire, but nothing much. Steve. Sign in to see full entry.

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Hi to everyone. It's very cold in the UK right now. When I let mother's horse out at 7 am the frost is just forming on the grass. Sign in to see full entry.

We had some rain! This is the field where I look after my mother's horse CJ. The level is normally way down on this. Sign in to see full entry.