<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:31:14 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@stevenwood/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[1% Better Each Day... Yeah That's Definitely Doable.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Well it REALLY is a little late for a Happy new year post! I still do though 😁 More importantly though, I hope the year has started well and if you're a planner, you have set your stall out in a way that]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-106316/@stevenwood/1-better-each-day-yeah-that-s-definitely-doable</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-106316/@stevenwood/1-better-each-day-yeah-that-s-definitely-doable</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-106316]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevenwood]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:54:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2rh3rScFM387T7yqSZLjfUrMChbxcSFyGv5g2EFWHYBRusZRy6xx4tQR5ZZxzQwwuWD2ddC448XQ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Closing Third of the Year...  It's Not Too Late Though...]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wow! September 1st! I am not going to ask that question again though, neither here, nor the real world... Where the heck does the time go??? Many will be cruising down to years end, Christmas, New Year,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-196233/@stevenwood/the-closing-third-of-the-year-it-s-not-too-late-though</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-196233/@stevenwood/the-closing-third-of-the-year-it-s-not-too-late-though</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-196233]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevenwood]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 22:16:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/6VvuHGsoU2QCK6yq1XKF2z9F8sayRpwConx4qLBUUW4UrPwna92UnujrjoRXtWf2JakE3tGgA5wc8RSsJvtMrNpob4SBeGc7s1MPrjrdT9ohLMy1osMv7fasoV5cBQ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Much Lost Youth Can We Ever Truly Regain? (Asking For A Friend...)]]></title><description><![CDATA[How Much Lost Youth Can We Ever Truly Regain? This is something that occupies a significant portion of my headspace on an almost constant basis. Like many over 50's I don't suggest for an instant that]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-106316/@stevenwood/how-much-lost-youth-can-we-ever-truly-regain-asking-for-a-friend</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-106316/@stevenwood/how-much-lost-youth-can-we-ever-truly-regain-asking-for-a-friend</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-106316]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevenwood]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2025 22:41:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2rhs16x5SXTHwA4gsNJbxMEccbBrykgYddGo4WiLstQ3amDkjW8Ru9JMdoB5H1dsQ4cQWuHr1CQN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's Never Too Late To Do Better, To Be Better, But Beware Time, It Is Fleeting!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Where does the time go? No really. I'm serious! I flip the page of the calendar to realise we are at the start of the eighth month of the year and I never really started the year yet. Obviously I am being]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-126152/@stevenwood/it-s-never-too-late-to-do-better-to-be-better-but-beware-time-it-is-fleeting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-126152/@stevenwood/it-s-never-too-late-to-do-better-to-be-better-but-beware-time-it-is-fleeting</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-126152]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevenwood]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:41:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/Zskj9C56UonZ32EJw6nMctrTQ6kTQ3swaDmbMFtCUrcUTMSUFNiFHr74zttiHrboAiH1HsjzZgMDWtN8kFvnJdb7XkWGCRaPybbWkVhGoB57F7cWCa4E?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now You See Me... Now You Dont... 🤔]]></title><description><![CDATA[Now You See Me... Now You Dont... Again! I have loved the last few days of being back in the Hive 🐝 I really have. Writing, commenting and catching up with friends I have made over the last 7 years and]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-190931/@stevenwood/now-you-see-me-now</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-190931/@stevenwood/now-you-see-me-now</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-190931]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevenwood]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:20:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmTuhPnKEZv8B3PQECj5LRiY1KjF68eynJLjVUsBgspnfq/image.png" length="0" type="image/png"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything's Moving Too Fast!  -  PART ONE.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Everything's moving too fast! I remember a time before mobile phones, when somehow we still managed to be able to make plans and meet up where and when we said we would. I don't feel like we were any worse]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-106316/@stevenwood/everything-s-moving-too-fast</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-106316/@stevenwood/everything-s-moving-too-fast</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-106316]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevenwood]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 01:21:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmYeUHg3YRgyqn4YmxkTReo3qVHu7WVK4yyq4uFttE2uDS/img_1757_1_.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wake Up and Smell Real Life, Steven! Another Foray in to the Mind of an Idiot...]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wake up... Wake up... Wake up!!! Sorry, sorry, not you... I was talking to Steven... Uhhmmm... ME! Yeah, yeah, I know... I've been here before, always gettin' ready to strike out, move forward, do the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-196233/@stevenwood/wake-up-and-smell-real-life-steven-another-foray-in-to-the-mind-of-an-idiot</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-196233/@stevenwood/wake-up-and-smell-real-life-steven-another-foray-in-to-the-mind-of-an-idiot</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-196233]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevenwood]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:07:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2rgynCzLKPtaRA1uakQ2f9Srxkbf7M8U9BBRAf5yomAeCbtuhj2x4aVDzHtGq8H5hs5isrxouorv?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Completed Eulogy For My Mam. Saved to the Blockchain For Permanence in the final hours of 2024.]]></title><description><![CDATA[As I said in my previous post, I would like to post a copy of the completed eulogy I wrote for the funeral service after my Mam's sad passing last month. On this, the last day of the final year of my Mam's]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/death/@stevenwood/completed-eulogy-for-my-mam-saved-to-the-blockchain-for-permanence-in-the-final-hours-of-2024</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/death/@stevenwood/completed-eulogy-for-my-mam-saved-to-the-blockchain-for-permanence-in-the-final-hours-of-2024</guid><category><![CDATA[death]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevenwood]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2024 16:28:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2rgfCiPG48obaay2V8gGpApQyoPyRnxurrREXW4fAjMgr1Z5M4ZSS7zuHLhhR72MjMswFoo58WWi?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ann's Life and Exploits. More than Just a Eulogy. A Strange Post to Return With.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Well, HELLO! It's been quite some time. My last post was almost a year ago, the day after tomorrow, it will be exactly a year in fact. My Mam, me, and my younger brothers. This may be my strangest post,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-106316/@stevenwood/anns-life-and-exploits-more-than-just-a-eulogy-a-strange-post-to-return-with</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-106316/@stevenwood/anns-life-and-exploits-more-than-just-a-eulogy-a-strange-post-to-return-with</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-106316]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevenwood]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:54:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2rhs16x5SXTHwA4gsNJbxMEccbBrykgYddGo4WiLstQ3amDkjW8Ru9JMdoB5H1dsQ4cQWuHr1CQN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Definitely Not Dead But Cane Much Closer Than I would Have Liked.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Well! I am really not sure how to start writing this one... I imagine it will be an uncharacteristically short post for energy reasons which shall become apparent. [Some of my timings will seem off in]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/sickness/@stevenwood/definitely-not-dead-but-cane-much-closer-than-i-would-have-liked</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/sickness/@stevenwood/definitely-not-dead-but-cane-much-closer-than-i-would-have-liked</guid><category><![CDATA[sickness]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevenwood]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2023 20:27:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/5s4dzRwnVbzGY5ssnCE4wXzkeAEXyVtgk1ApQTwHMTp6y5PvEo1yennCKQRd5YWD574TuTvbacuu6Rb2yqDDSBwXsAu3oZV7SdMcbcLQQdbF6yCtqZfVzgW3jX8oXaTy2C5fApSP3Hp6b5oT7fPg9jJPjXffpTny22f3Fyp?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sun, Sea, Sneezing and Spluttering... Bring on October and Q4 of the Year.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Well, talk about a funny couple of weeks! I pretty much put it out there in my last posts, that m'lady had taken bold steps for the 2 of us in a health and wellbeing funk and in conjunction with my birthday,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/holiday/@stevenwood/sun-sea-sneezing-and-spluttering</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/holiday/@stevenwood/sun-sea-sneezing-and-spluttering</guid><category><![CDATA[holiday]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevenwood]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2023 22:49:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmb7tY12k7dBpcSydrq78Fh6TiENxig81925X7vEhdKMLU/img_2485.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Favourite Womble Was Always Great Uncle Bulgaria... Not That it is All That Relevant.]]></title><description><![CDATA[So the moment is upon me. I have mentioned it in some of my posts without too much detail but I have an unusual week ahead of me. 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How soon they turn to weeks, months, years and finally the metamorphosis complete, they become memories. The weekend-engagement writing prompts are upon]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-168869/@stevenwood/habit-killing-remeber-to-only-do-it-to-the-bad-habits</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-168869/@stevenwood/habit-killing-remeber-to-only-do-it-to-the-bad-habits</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-168869]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevenwood]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 23:34:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2dk2RRM2dZ8gKjXsrozapsD83FxL3Xbyyi5LFttAhrXxr16mCe4arfLJNNn76D2TtA8n4wGggGabBTjHgQ4xTiaQaNYFmtUKmzCZvvmFQg7m7Z6ZaHFLurAtG1x7afRN7rTyTCRdJe5kWhemTnSD7KWJqTktMkjzdZaLVkfYoY?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tales from the Car wash.  AKA - Thinking Too Much!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Well I have written some bizarre posts in my time here... but... Even by my standards this was is slightly peculiar but while in the carwash this morning I had a little time to think. You see, the second]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@stevenwood/tales-from-the-car-wash-aka-thinking-too-much</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@stevenwood/tales-from-the-car-wash-aka-thinking-too-much</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevenwood]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2023 23:39:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2dk2RRM2dZ8gKjXsrozapsD83FxL3Xbyyi5LFttAhrXxr16mCe4arfLJNNn76D2TtA8n4wGgfeVH4g4SNppn7LD8AyiVbYSyPiunDSVZPMBVpMm2chsukBBVKdojo21k1GNqg7TfxEknx2uRGUvtVQmKwu6BM6dXrtH4zDvUUN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celebrating a Small Win That Feels HUGE.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tonight, I thought I would treat you to a shorter post! 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So I have proven to myself that no matter how pathetic, lily livered and socially impotent I feel I have become, I am capable of writing for]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-122675/@stevenwood/a-well-planned-post-that-is-not-what-i-intended-a-tale-from-the-dark-side-apparently</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-122675/@stevenwood/a-well-planned-post-that-is-not-what-i-intended-a-tale-from-the-dark-side-apparently</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-122675]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevenwood]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2023 22:37:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2dk2RRM2dZ8gKjXsrozapsD83FxL3Xbyyi5LFttAhrXxr16mCe4arfLJNNn76D2TtA8n4wGgfdvVX8qoxG8vuRSWSvoGXUDTqfWNrjdWyBseoy68j3abqh7d12wgfyQa72nW6HU53Q5kbmT4DYsm56pM7VJsGRqiyBJnfdf5Jn?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Clever Pretence For an Image Dump. 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I have written about it before, which is hardly surprising as it is a HUGE part of my life. Everyone who knows me knows the topic]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-152524/@stevenwood/no-milk-no-sugar-it</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-152524/@stevenwood/no-milk-no-sugar-it</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-152524]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevenwood]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2023 01:45:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/DQmXKZNTugSWxVyKJBD2V5S8M2G3wS4AWWNjfjX2q2d3vq8/20230728_212115.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/></item></channel></rss>