Slow down.

Here I am, sat at my bench with freshly made coffee and treato baked by my wife. It’s raining pretty steadily outside and the sound on the roof is all that I hear. There are no machines running, no music playing, just rain. I’m taking my time marking out a neck blank to cut, and I’m enjoying the peaceful pace.

I realised how slowly I’ve been moving lately. I don’t have the same frantic feeling I normally have, where everything buzzes around me and I’m in a race to get everything done, all the same. I can only pin this down to a break from social media. It really does mess with your brain, crying out for your attention, even from a locked phone across the room.

Just a week without the constant stream of information has allowed my brain to settle down a bit, and start to enjoy the little things again.