The 52:52:52 project, launching on this site and on social media in 2025, will help you address 52 issues with 52 responses over 52 weeks.

This site addresses what's changing, at the personal, organisational and societal levels. You'll learn about key changes across more than 150 elements of life, from ageing and time, through nature and animals, to kindness and love...and much more besides, which will help you better prepare for related change in your own life.

Halcyon In Kaleidoscope features irregular and fragmentary writings - on ideas and values, places and people - which evolve over time into mini essais, paying humble homage to the peerless founder of the genre. The kaleidoscope is Halcyon's prime metaphor, viewing the world through ever-moving lenses.

A Mundane Comedy is Dom Kelleher's new book, which will be published in 2025. The introduction is available here and further extracts will appear on this site and on social media in the coming months.

On Brightlingsea

Before first going to Ailsa's house in late December 1986, I had been twice before to Brightlingsea, once to a campsite with "the families" (Kellehers, O'Connells, Southons etc.) in about 1976 and then for a party at Joanna Cousins' family's weekend home in about September 1980.

We were married at All Saints Church on 22 July 1989.

Bateman's Tower holds a special place in our collective affections, especially now that a bench commemorating my late father-in-law, Don Robertson, is at its side.

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