Tom Ives Life Category
Matter Over Mind
Posted on November 13, 2019 1 Comment
The mind can push the body beyond reason.
I have learned that the body can push the mind back into it’s box
UK MTB Tour
Posted on June 30, 2018
In early May 2018 I went on a very special holiday with two good friends. We had a long ‘lads only’ weekend touring the wilder bits of England and Scotland to ride stunning trail centres on our mountain bikes. Weather and vibes were awesome, and the riding was unreal. This is the story of our […]
Passing the quil
Posted on February 18, 2016
I think it’s time for Bella to start contributing to the household running costs. She’s had nearly four years of essentials like shelter, clothing and hot chocolate all scot-free. So for my dad’s birthday this year I asked Bella to tell him a story – she can usually produce two or three in a single […]
My Pop’s Landy
Posted on February 13, 2016 1 Comment
If I missed the coach to high school my mum would have to drive me in. I was so embarrassed to arrive in an ancient multi coloured Land Rover Defender that I would demand to be dropped half a mile from the school gates and walk around. But it wasn’t always so. In primary school […]
2015 Yearnote
Posted on January 3, 2016
Inspired by my talented cousin Paul Carvill‘s year note for 2014 I thought I’d have a go. The speed at which 2015 has passed means either that I’m rapidly getting old, or it was super busy. Starting with work stuff then, 2015 was full of personal firsts. I jetted off to Frankfurt for my first […]
Storehouse – a beautiful way to blog
Posted on November 14, 2015
I was recommended the Storehouse App for my iPhone last year as an app that was made for the newly updated iOS 8. It arrived at a perfect time for me – I was on holiday in North Devon with plenty of time to detox from the digital overload of my job and indulge in […]
Garden Makeover 2013 / 14
Posted on September 25, 2014
This is my second big garden project.* Jennie and I bought our first home in August 2012 – a 1930s three bed terrace in Warwick. We’d been planning to buy for years, but were spurred into action by firstly the birth of our daughter Bella, and shortly after, our landlord giving us notice he was […]
UCE Survivors
Posted on March 11, 2013
In June 7 years will have passed since I graduated from the University of Central England (AKA UCE.) UCE is not a venerable red brick institution of academia, instead a fusion of an old polytechnic with several previously independant schools of art, jewellery, music and nursing. There are 8 separate campuses spread across Birmingham, offering (mostly) vocationally focused education. […]
Garden Makeover 2012
Posted on January 26, 2013 1 Comment
Jennie and I moved from Kings Heath to Solihull in December 2011. We moved from one small rented, terraced house to an even smaller one in order to be close to my work when our daughter arrived in April the next year. The previous house had a perfectly landscaped garden that we couldn’t make any […]
Odd Kid
Posted on October 28, 2012
I wrote a lot as a kid, encouraged by my parents and school. On Monday morning we had a lesson called ‘News’ and we were asked to write in our notebook what we had done at the weekend. I clearly had a colourful and unsatisfied imagination as I would embellish more and more each week. […]
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