If it involves fake smiling, I probably won't come.

Well, it has been a time of introspection and planning... mostly because I've only just run out of fingers on which to count the number of times I've left the house, this summer.

But amazing things are happening and it turns out it's as easy as asking if people want to get involved. What was once a three-man South Devon team is now 14-strong and UK wide (OK, not strictly UK-wide - we're still unrepresented in Ireland, but we'll get there!) and creating fantastic ways for people to explore nature. 

So it seems it's a new age for Wild Ideas as well as for me.  So I have decided that, from now on, I will focus on the future and leave the past behind. 

I appreciate is probably not great news for everyone I owe money to.

And now it's so strange to observe people's reactions to coming out of the lockdown.  I guess my social skills have improved, because I've been invited to so many 'garden parties' that it's exhausting to even try to schedule them.  And also, it turns out that it's not "appropriate" to decline on the basis that attending involves too much fake smiling on my part.

Thing is, I'd totally go, but it's straight up disappointing that the conversations I have with people in real life are never as good as they are when I practise them in my head.

So, no, I'm good thanks.  I have to stay home and finally watch Waterworld so I have something new to moan about.

Oh!  I nearly forgot... Papercuts in August : 0

Which brings the 2020 papercut total to a beautifully round 0.