How do you handle it when you are late?

I apologise. Then try to style it out. I hate being late. But if it’s happens, there’s not much you can do about it, and I’d just hope the other person understands that it’s not intentional. It drives me crazy when my wife insists we don’t need to leave *now* but we’ll be ok if we leave only exactly the right amount of time to get somewhere. Being late drives me mad, yet I’m pretty cool about it if others are late. Sure, they may be being rude or selfish or inconsiderate. But they might just have stopped on the way over to help and old lady across the road too.

How important is punctuality to you?

It’s both critical and unimportant in equal measures. I managed to get back onto a narrowboat a few weeks back, and one of the things I absolutely loved about it was that everything becomes timeless. You can’t work to a clock. Sometimes it takes ten minutes to get through a lock, sometimes it takes an hour. Sometimes you aim to reach a destination by a certain time and sometimes it goes dark before you get there, so you stop and moor up wherever you are. There’s always tomorrow.

But at the same time, once I’m in “city living mode” punctuality is everything. Any social interaction that involves an agreed time – it’s like you’ve broken the “agreement” if you don’t make it on time. And on a micro-level, don’t get me started about those guitarists who come in half-a-beat late when they’re taking a solo….

Have you seen the white rabbit?

No. But on the canal I did see a deer going for a swim and a field with over a hundred geese and goslings in it.

Pledge? Get some more paint on some more inhabitants of Jabba’s Throne Room. I got waylaid with visiting family and hospital appointments and stuff this week, but did manage to get Bib Fortuna finished and a couple of guards blocked in. Slow and steady wins the race, right?

Here’s your music. You can thank the Youtube algorithms for this one; I didn’t actively seek it out:

I’ll leave you to follow the links to discover Enter Jazzman and other classics.