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Facing The World Again
A few weeks ago, many of us were wondering when life was going to be back to normal again. In the past days, we’ve had the terrible story of Afghanistan and the natural disasters in Haiti and who’s now talking about Covid? Funny how the world moves on so fast. Just for a moment, I’m…
The Curse of Catastrophic Thinking
I was left to take charge of a cat for a couple of days recently. The cat stayed in his location and I had to go over and organise the feeding arrangements. Here’s a little background information. He was a house cat; he’s become an outdoor cat and he’s developed into quite a rat/mouse catcher….
If Not Now, When?
Our PM was referring to the opening up of the country after our latest lockdown when he said those words. I’ve lost count whether it’s the third lockdown or the end of one continuous lockdown but, for once, Boris Johnson’s words made sense to me. If not now, when? A powerful question. A question that…
Let’s Hear It For The Quiet Ones
It’s been a hard 16 months and we all have stories to tell about how lockdown has affected us. I’m hoping we’re coming to the end of it now. I’m also hoping that we humans, being generally very resourceful, may find we forget all our visceral feelings more quickly than we’d expect. But there’s one…
The Expansion of the Mid-Life Crisis
There was a time when a mid-life crisis was associated with someone giving up their old family life in exchange for a new and potentially more exciting one with a new partner. For some people, there’s the temptation to start again and to put right the wrongs that we may have done to ourselves when…
Love The One You’re With
The pandemic has had a dramatic effect on the communication skills of very small children, according to a recent study of some 50,000 children between the ages of four and five. The survey was conducted for the Education Endowment Foundation, an independent charity, and the findings indicate up to 25% of children in this age category…
Fools Rush In
On Friday, April 9, 2021 at 10.40am, I was proceeding in a north-easterly direction … okay, enough of that. I was driving across a London bridge going from south to north when a police motorbike outrider – coming from east to west – drove up ahead of me and decisively indicated for me to stop….
In Search of the Other
It feels as though we’re in the middle of a witch hunt. Or witch hunts to be precise. Against anyone and everyone, whoever they are. The most recent cause is the allegations against public schoolboys. I imagine it’s particularly about boys at those schools because they’re single sex and often boarding schools so you have…
