Category: Life
Hello Kristina – Found On Facebook
My children – bless them – live with their phones for ever in their hands to keep in touch. Yes very much in touch – not only with people they meet daily and are friends with now; but also with people they were with at school, university etc. How different that is to the way […]
O’Sullivan And £10,000 – Have We Got To Make The Prize Worth More Than Money
Simple questions for you – How much would you want to get in your hand £10,000? How much would any charity value that money? So many of us value money, and need it badly, but also do what we can to help others where and when possible. If you are at all like me then […]
Mental Health – An Important Question For You
Many of my blogs are light hearted, bizarre or whatever; but NOT today. This is Important and I hope that you will stay with me for a couple of minutes while I am talking passionately about something I care about. In fact we should all care about this as one in four of us will […]
Telegraph, Terry Wogan And Snide Obituary
So there has been an online row about a ‘horrifically sour, snide and patronising tone of an anonymously written obituary about Terry Wogan published in the Daily Telegraph. You’ll have to take the words of the paper I read as there is no way on earth that I would read the rubbish that is printed […]
England Won Rugby and Cricket One Day Match and Arsenal Won
What a weekend. I love my sport and there it all was – a weekend made for me. England Rugby, England One Day Cricket Match AND my team Arsenal playing Bournemouth – BUT DO YOU KNOW WHAT – I missed it all. I’ll come back to that in a minute. I had a great weekend […]
Nepotism – 16 Year Old Lad With Great Eye For Image
There have been plenty of press this week about Brooklyn Beckham (BB – that was Brigitte Bardot’s famous initials in my youth). He is sixteen years old and has been hired by Burberry as photographer of their latest fragrance range. Sixteen – he should be the tea boy on the staff. Some pretty top class […]
Blogs and Diaries
My wife has kept a diary for years. I must feature in there somewhere – well probably everywhere – dread to think. Like all diaries it is her private corner and will probably make a good read some day for our ancestors. I am not destined to see those entries – I have never been […]
Cat food that can help you run faster
I received a parcel yesterday morning and as I was busy simply dumped it into the house, not giving it another thought. My wife does nearly all of her shopping online and as I work from home, I am on first name terms with most of the van drivers who drop off packages (oh and […]
I Had To Ask The Consultant Which Of My Kidneys Had The Tumour
Okay it’s a New Year and I have made a resolution that I will get my blog back on track with regular updates. Oh and having visited it now to write this post I see it needs an overhaul. Pathetic looking blog. I actually like writing but have been making the lame excuse about ‘no […]
All I Want for Christmas is a Pencil, Paper, Penknife and a Whistle!
Not your usual letter to Father Christmas I know and if my family happens to read this it’s not what I really want (hints will be dropped) but a pencil, some paper, a penknife and a whistle or all item on a list that the British Red Cross is recommending as part of a winter […]
Match Day Nerves Or Are They Something Worse!
Being a long standing Arsenal supporter I tend to get a bit twitchy come match days but hey so do thousands of other football fans, so what’s to worry about, certainly not a crisis you would think. But could those nerves be just the tip of an iceberg when it comes to what is really […]
Simon and His Cat Are Here – Christmas Has Started
Don’t you just love these festive offerings from Simon and his cat. I wonder what the name of his cat is.
Did My Nursing Career Train Me To Not Smell?
It was with some interest that I read on the BBC website this morning about a ‘smell’ study. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15770361 The sense of smell can be improved through training, a study on rats suggests. The study, published in Nature Neuroscience, also suggests if we do not use our sense of smell, we begin to lose it. […]
Is Zero-Gravity Yoga The Universal Law Sir Isaac Newton Missed?
Newton as I’m sure you all know discovered and wrote the Universal Law of Gravity which explains why we don’t fall off the earth and the planets stay in orbit, but what he didn’t explain was that by defying gravity we will become fitter and find a whole new feeling of wellbeing. Well, according to […]
Stopping Smoking – Women Take Note!
Staying on the topic of stopping smoking I want to continue the subject by going back to the article I mentioned in my post ‘Dr Mark Porter Blowing A Smokescreen Over How To Stop Smoking.’ In it he makes the point that women may be more susceptible to the damaging effects of cigarette smoke than […]
Gunners Or Goners?
Anyone that knows me personally will be aware that I am a Gunners fan (an Arsenal supporter aka Gooner for those of you uninitiated in the finer points of football) and their 8 – 2 defeat by Manchester United was the lowest point of my weekend. Of course I received the usual reminders from friends, […]
Was It Blue Monday Or Not?
This morning I sent an e-mail which goes to people all over the world. I opened with this paragraph – “Yesterday morning Adam arrived at work and his computer failed to start. What a great way to get under way on what the media call Blue Monday. Goodness knows how they research these things but […]
Great To Be With Positive People So Why All The Negative Stuff
I just don’t get it – why are there so many negative people everywhere you go? It always amazes me in my business life when I see a really fired up positive speaker at a seminar or conference, just what a reaction he/she has on the audience. They love it. You could cook on the […]