Author Archives: Lawrence Hebb

Ever watch those old vintage vehicles? You see them around, looking so majestic on the roads, their owners driving sedately, literally looking as if they ‘own’ the road. Then again, looking at the vehicles they drive, the sheer beauty and quality of them, and they probably did when they were new! Up to about aContinue reading “Shifting gears”

Something we do every day on the road, driving to work, got to change lanes to get to the right place where we’re going. Probably don’t even think about it. Yet it has a major impact on our day. Think of it, something we do every day, yet get it wrong and people get reallyContinue reading “Changing Lanes”

It’s been a long day at work, but I’m still here, just a little longer to go, then it’s time for home, it has been a long day. But not a hard one! I have to admit, my days at work are long, but they’re enjoyable and after six years on my regular job, IContinue reading “On the road.”

Getting the most from the ‘straggly things’ over the back fence.   A well-tended grapevine looks awesome, all those juicy grapes hanging off the vine, slowly filling out and turning the right colour (mine turn an awesome deep red) as they sweeten up are just awesome to look at. A real point of pride forContinue reading “Grapevine”

Ask any writer, whether self-published or not how many words a day they say writers should be producing and you’ll hear them say “A thousand words every day!” and everyone one them can come up with a plan as to how to achieve that goal, or so they say. They all look good (the plansContinue reading “A Thousand Words a day?”

This is just a short piece about a small trip we took a few weeks ago over to the ocean. There are times when you just have to get away from things, and a short trip to the ocean is a great way to do it. What made it special was 9apart from the factContinue reading “A day at the seaside.”

Last night was a strange one, not what I really expected, then again, in my job I’ve learned to ‘expect the unexpected’ but last night got me thinking of what was, and what might have been. And counting the blessings that stopped them happening. Let me explain a bit, see I work for a busContinue reading “Counting the Blessings”

“Ya gotta have a backup plan!” How many times have you heard that phrase? I can remember a few places where I’ve worked things at times seemed so chaotic I wondered how we ever got things done? I mean so many things going on, and half of them because some machine or other packed up,Continue reading “Backup plans”

I didn’t post anything last week, just so much going on that I didn’t get the chance to write all that much, so there wasn’t much chance to write here. That doesn’t mean there wasn’t anything going on, there was, and it was a lot, or at least for me, it was a lot. RememberContinue reading “Small victories”

The other day I saw something that spoke volumes to me, probably partly because of the times I’ve been in a similar predicament. I was driving the bus, the weather was pretty awful, the rain coming down pretty hard. A truck was delivering supplies to a building site, as it backed down a road toContinue reading “Traction”