So I sulked for about a year desperate to return to creating things. I played about with writing but the skills I had in my teens and twenties were rusted like old steel works. I couldn’t get the cogs to turn. I wanted to get back to writing music and songs, my core passion, but that was too painful, at least for the moment.

So in a fit of madness, I have now got into coding/programming call it what you will. Here, I have found a generous community of people on the web worldwide who share their time and effort and knowledge freely with others. I have found endless possibilities for creation and expression in so many different mediums. Not only is there a core beauty behind the whole design and implementation of a piece of software, there is also purpose in the wider sense for the user, whoever they may be. To create something that simplifies someone else’s life feels, at least to me, great and uplifting.