As you both know, I have several hobbies that take up much of my spare time.

The most prolific of these is electronics, which I have been playing around with since I was 14.

Over the years, I have built many projects, most of which have ended up being dismantled or discarded once I’d lost interest in them, but also some that are still in use regularly to this day.

Nowadays though, it takes me longer to build things, because I simply don’t seem to have as much spare time as I used to.  And, I’ll often find, that halfway through building a project, something else will grab my attention. Project A will then go on the back-burner whilst I start on Project B.

I am in that situation right now: Project A – a large project that I have been working on for a couple of years (it started life as my Lockdown Project, back when we had the plague) has spent more time on the back burner than on the front. And it is sitting there right now, gently simmering whilst I work on Project B.  Occasionally, I will come back to it and give it a bit of a stir, but for the moment, all my time and energy is focussed on completing Project B.

Or, at least, it was. Because the components for Project C arrived in the post yesterday and I am quite excited and keen to get started on that one.  Of course, I should put it to one side and wait until I have finished Projects A & B, but I know that won’t happen… Project B will be squeezed onto the back burner, alongside Project A, whilst I put all my focus into Project C.

Having a back burner really isn’t helping.