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It’s been a while…

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Daniel Rhodes
Sep 16, 2025
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The last article post on This Red Planet was ‘We Choose to go to the Moon’.

We Choose To Go To the Moon …

We Choose To Go To the Moon …

Daniel Rhodes and Paul Tomkins
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November 16, 2023
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Well, that was over 18 months ago, and plenty has gone on in my life since then. Here’s a little explanation about that, and what to expect from the future on This Red Planet…

We’ve won the league since then, and not a bloody word, the absolute cheek! Well, here’s the reason(s).

The initial reason for me stopping writing on here was my eyesight really struggling again; not quite as bad as it was over ten years ago now when I went blind for a period of time, but my vision kept going blurry whenever I spent more than thirty minutes looking at screen. So while my phone ‘screen time’ was impressively healthy, my ability to work, or write, or edit was virtually impossible, and very risky.

It’s taken a long while to build it back up to anywhere near what it was when that article was published. Thankfully it is improving, so much so I’m going to try to start writing again. Not only on here - at least weekly - but also on The Main Hub for Paul.

Crucially though, I’m hoping to do more audio/video posts, with some help from my eldest son. Mainly because that’s how I’ve consumed so much of my ‘media’ in the recent past.

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