Yesterday I responded to yet another person criticising the “mindless dribble” [sic] of Twitter.

Moments ago I listened to Bernie Goldbach’s Audioboo about a new arrival and was touched by his attention to detail – not about the baby but about the condensation on the inside of his car window!

I then scanned emails from 2005 as I archived them out of my main mailbox. It was like watching a timelapse of my life.

I often quote Rob Paterson’s phrase “the intensity of the mundane” but it is worth restating that it is the little things that make life real and understandable – not the big exciting things that we are coached to value by the media.

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Someone I know just posted on Facebook that their son has been killed in a car crash. Their expression of grief in this context took me aback. I sat here stunned.

This is someone I haven’t had contact with for years and for me to respond with a Facebook comment in such circumstances seemed wrong.

But then I realised that here was a fellow human being in frankly unimaginable pain reaching out. Who was I not to reach back …..

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