<?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[Aurevior]]></title><description><![CDATA[Exploring the world of self, one topic at a time.]]></description><link>https://aureviortrouble.wixsite.com/aurevior/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2026 16:52:53 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://aureviortrouble.wixsite.com/aurevior/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Q&#38;A]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ive replied to the last few comments on the last post, so here goes..... As requested - go nuts in the comment box below; I'll check in after a few days. Let's keep this anonymous as per - however, if If you want to ask something but would prefer your question and my reply to remain private, the blog needs some way of contacting you back. My best guess would be to create a separate email address that isn't associated with your usual identity? That way, we can have a private / anonymous...]]></description><link>https://aureviortrouble.wixsite.com/aurevior/post/q-a</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ad8ce79d17b29f72a8bb132</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:38:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Nobody</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mon Apartment et Passport]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paris is the city of cafés, balconies, boulangeries, little streets that somehow look like they've been designed specifically for a film, and apartments with tall windows overlooking something impossibly French. Paris is the European city of angles And then you actually try to rent a place. Fucking nightmare. I've done it before. A few years ago, I had to navigate the Paris rental market myself, and it was one of those experiences that completely destroys the fantasy of simply arriving in...]]></description><link>https://aureviortrouble.wixsite.com/aurevior/post/mon-apartment-et-passport</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acce1be2a23ca492e6a118c</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:44:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1cc715_dba284ebda97463bb753d1d21323c553~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_776,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nobody</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[La France]]></title><description><![CDATA[You might recall I wasn't exactly feeling this trip when it was first mentioned. I'd only ever met the team I was going to lead virtually. They seemed nice enough, but trying to get a proper read on a team that reports into you through Teams is... weird. Remote working is amazing, but there are some things you simply can't work out through a screen. My boss is in the US and I only catch up with him every couple of weeks, so I've been left to fend for myself quite a lot. So yes, I was a little...]]></description><link>https://aureviortrouble.wixsite.com/aurevior/post/la-france</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac14f53104b5b8f71a7dba0</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:49:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1cc715_b9b126c7acbb43f8aa386e71f7aa7983~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nobody</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last call.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today marks a year since the last time we spoke. I've thought about whether to write about it. I've actually thought about it quite a lot. Not because I want to drag the past back into the present, but because some dates stay with you whether you want them to or not. A year ago, I made that call knowing I probably wouldn't get another chance to say everything I needed to say. So I put it all out there. I apologised. Properly. I said I was sorry for the things I'd done wrong, the things I'd...]]></description><link>https://aureviortrouble.wixsite.com/aurevior/post/the-last-call</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aa7a88fabcfc8d624a23734</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 07:57:01 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Nobody</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The missing bit]]></title><description><![CDATA[I've been thinking about what I meant when I said something felt missing. I don't think it's excitement. I've got plenty going on. New job. New house. France coming up. French language battering my head. Training for both basketball and my "Fights." Like a proper midlife crisis moment, New team . New routines, trying not to be a dick. On paper, there's probably more going on in my life now than there has been for years. And yet... There are still moments where something feels slightly absent....]]></description><link>https://aureviortrouble.wixsite.com/aurevior/post/the-missing-bit</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aa10cf4ff357ecb174e7426</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:44:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Nobody</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three weeks in....]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three weeks into this new start, and you'd probably expect everything to be sunshine and rainbow's. And, in many ways, it is. I'm still learning the new company, the role, the people and where I fit into it all. I'm speaking French every day, which in itself is a bit of a head fuck when your brain keeps switching back to English. Some days I genuinely don't know whether I'm coming or going. The redundancy payment has finally landed. I've cashed in my shares, cleared every debt and put myself...]]></description><link>https://aureviortrouble.wixsite.com/aurevior/post/three-weeks-in</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a8c64608d97e7b79599beb0</guid><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 19:54:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1cc715_36cbef0b208740b592b0039e2ea3bfbc~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nobody</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blank page]]></title><description><![CDATA[This Friday officially closes one chapter. Garden leave has effectively given me a two-month holiday, and I've tried not to waste it. Over the last few weeks I've travelled, randomly picked places I've always wanted to visit and just... gone. It might seem like an odd way to spend the time, but I've loved every minute of it. Yesterday I handed my company car back, and my new one doesn't arrive for a few weeks, so I've squeezed every last mile out of the freedom of simply being able to jump in...]]></description><link>https://aureviortrouble.wixsite.com/aurevior/post/blank-page</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a68ef0319225b34a1cd4d95</guid><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:49:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Nobody</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just want you to know who I am]]></title><link>https://aureviortrouble.wixsite.com/aurevior/post/i-just-want-you-to-know-who-i-am</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a4ab1d30e6d4656949bbdc6</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:03:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1cc715_db3d4adbbcd6448db8ab6ea29854c188~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nobody</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Huh what?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The last few days have been an absolute blur. I went to Download with a very specific mentality. Not a "let's burn my life to the ground" mentality. More a: Dance until you can't breathe. Drink with strangers. Laugh too loudly. Walk around like you genuinely don't care what anyone thinks of you. Kind of mentality. And honestly? It was exactly what I needed. The weather behaved itself for once. The atmosphere was incredible. And there is something wonderfully freeing about spending four days...]]></description><link>https://aureviortrouble.wixsite.com/aurevior/post/huh-what</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3507f3217d21f7fb61fd21</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:26:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Nobody</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Q&#38;A]]></title><description><![CDATA[As requested I will do a live Q&#38;A Tuesday night at 23.30 I'll be on this blog so use the Chat function, no need to fill in details just the question to keep it anonymous. Will reply to as many as I can.]]></description><link>https://aureviortrouble.wixsite.com/aurevior/post/__q-a</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a20015d7eced14b46ef6db9</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:13:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Nobody</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curious and curiouser]]></title><description><![CDATA[One thing nobody really tells you about major life changes... It's not the big events that catch you out. It's the small things. You expect redundancy to be hard. You expect relationships ending to be hard. You expect moving house, changing jobs and uncertainty to be hard. What catches you off guard is when you reach for the phone to tell someone something and realise you don't anymore. Or when your week suddenly has space in it. Or when you solve a problem and realise nobody was expecting...]]></description><link>https://aureviortrouble.wixsite.com/aurevior/post/curious-and-curiouser</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a1d591d61de78e3b2148ebf</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:07:23 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Nobody</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Aboot it ?]]></title><description><![CDATA[It’s been a strange few days. Living somewhere between anger and bewilderment, if I’m honest. A few days ago I had my third fight and everyone around me told me not to do it because emotionally I wasn’t in the right place. Which was probably true. I wasn’t sad. I wasn’t nervous. I was angry. Very angry. So my emotions were running high and, truthfully, part of me just wanted to hit something… and probably get hit back. It was messy. Very messy. Imagine 2 grown men just slapping each other...]]></description><link>https://aureviortrouble.wixsite.com/aurevior/post/aboot-what</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0c28c71dfea279f6462365</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 17:35:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Nobody</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well this one's harder.]]></title><description><![CDATA[After the highs of Friday and the western night on Saturday, it hit me hard on Sunday… and honestly it’s carried on throughout the week. I think the gravity of being made redundant has finally landed properly. What’s made it harder is finding out that a senior member of IT was instrumental in ensuring I wasn’t picked for the role. I had the skills, the knowledge, years of experience, and a dozen testimonials from stakeholders — but they chose someone lower down the ladder with no real...]]></description><link>https://aureviortrouble.wixsite.com/aurevior/post/well-this-one-s-harder</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fafaa74002595ef379f6b9</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 17:07:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Nobody</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[I ventured into the wild yesterday…]]></title><description><![CDATA[With everything that’s been going on, an all-day session was organised in Manchester by a few mates. We all had the day off and were meeting at 12. Train booked, across the Pennines, sun was out — it was needed. I donned the cowboy boots. Levi’s 511s. Stetson trucker cap. Leather strap watch. Leather belt. Semi-fitted purple t-shirt. I say semi-fitted… it was never fitted, but with all the training it’s somehow started to look it. Not in a “look at me” way — just… it fits properly now. Which...]]></description><link>https://aureviortrouble.wixsite.com/aurevior/post/untitled-2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f5ce11808bacbfb0747af7</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 17:54:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Nobody</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a no from me .]]></title><description><![CDATA[I wasn’t successful in securing the role. Devastated is probably the only word for it. It’s been a strange few months — restructure, conversations, processes, and a lot of time spent thinking this would go a certain way. It didn’t. I could break down everything that happened, but the reality is simple: It’s done. What I do know is this: The last 4.5 years don’t disappear because of one decision. The work, the effort, the results — they’re still mine. Right now it feels like everything’s...]]></description><link>https://aureviortrouble.wixsite.com/aurevior/post/that-s-a-no-from-me</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69e9df15fcc7e66939539995</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:18:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Nobody</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fight 2.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wasn’t the best performance again, but another win and another KO. As my trainer put it, it was like watching two bagpipes trying to slap each other in the first round. Finally got my shit together in round 2 and we sparred and grappled through to round 5, where I somehow managed to get him to the floor and, by some miracle, placed a correct choke hold on him before he tapped out. I still have no idea what I’m doing half the time and have a bruise down the full side of my body that would make...]]></description><link>https://aureviortrouble.wixsite.com/aurevior/post/fight-2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69e4d90f16b0ab534cf466ff</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:58:54 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Nobody</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quick on on this...]]></title><description><![CDATA[Had a few comments and DMs about not searching or reaching out — so just to clear a few things up. Of course I’d want to hear that they’re okay. Happy, doing well, everything going right — that’s all I’d ever want. I do wonder how they’re doing. Always have, probably always will. But a clear message was set last year, and I’ve chosen to respect that. I don’t go searching. Even though it’s easy to. It would be simple to send a message, an email, or check socials. But I don’t. Not because I...]]></description><link>https://aureviortrouble.wixsite.com/aurevior/post/quick-on-on-this</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69df6b9416b0ab534cf29f5e</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Nobody</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard one to put into words…]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’ve struggled to put this into words, so bear with me. I do have friends — good ones. But I think I’ve realised I miss having that friend. If you know, you know. It’s not about numbers, or being busy, or having plans. It’s something a bit quieter than that. I’ve probably kept that feeling just under the surface for a while… not really acknowledging it properly. And I think part of the way I’ve dealt with it is by just… moving. Throwing myself into things. Training. Fighting. Line dancing...]]></description><link>https://aureviortrouble.wixsite.com/aurevior/post/hard-one-to-put-into-words</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69db8f659c4f891046614f0c</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:15:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Nobody</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comic Con anyone ?]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you haven’t guessed by now… I’m a bit of a geek. A nerd. A full-on weirdo. For a while I probably kept that side a bit quieter than I should have. But once I got myself back together, I started leaning into it again. Going back to cons. Walking Dead  events. Hanging out with the Marvel crowd. Playing with the Dark side.... And now — Comic Con Manchester this weekend. This time, I’m not just turning up. I’m finally dressing up and going full geek. Been building this outfit for months — and...]]></description><link>https://aureviortrouble.wixsite.com/aurevior/post/comic-con-time</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d625e95d64a6810f508857</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:14:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Nobody</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[New friends required (apparently)]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the record — I do have friends  Admittedly, about a year ago I didn’t lean on them as much as I should have. They thought (rightly) I was a bit of a dick in everything… so I retreated and tried to navigate it all on my own. It was hard. Properly hard. Only in the last few months have I started to repair that — letting them back in, being honest about where I was at. I don’t have a massive circle — just a handful — but I appreciate them a lot more now. This weekend’s a good example:...]]></description><link>https://aureviortrouble.wixsite.com/aurevior/post/new-friends-required-apparently</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d258d88b297b54b736d623</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:07:42 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Nobody</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>