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Masking Up
How are you getting on with wearing a mask? Are you glad to be doing your bit for society and hoping that you’re helping to contain this awful illness? Are you pragmatic? Do you wear it because you have to? Are you railing inside, feeling it’s an infringement of your own rights? Or have you…
Embarrassing Families
Hands up if you have a parent who has embarrassed you lately. Hands up if you have a child who doesn’t spare your blushes. Or maybe you’re the sandwich in the middle of such awkwardness. Whichever direction your hand has taken, you are in good company. Recently, Stanley Johnson, father of Prime minister Boris…
After Covid
As we are slowly easing out of lockdown, it may be the time to take stock of how we can move forward into a new normality that benefits everyone. Lulu Sinclair talked in a recent blog about this having been, for many, a time of reflection, for being rather than doing, and for questioning choices we…
Let It Go … Let It Go
Are you a determined person? Are you someone who prides yourself on getting a job done, on never giving up, on staying loyal come what may? Or are you a person who might persevere a little less than others (let’s not say fall at the first hurdle), someone who is prepared to put so much…
Being Here
How are you and how are you getting on? Are you enjoying the respite of quiet contemplation or are you longing to get out there again? Have you been filling your lockdown time with Zoom meetings (and did you know much about them before the middle of March) with office folk and Zoom after-hours parties…
Following the Leader
“Now is not the time for soundbites … I feel the hand of history on my shoulder.” That quote actually belongs to Tony Blair but it could work well for our present PM, Boris Johnson. What a time he has had of it. He survived a near-miss with Covid-19 and then, in the same month,…
Lockdown and the Power of Persuasion
Currently, we are facing another three weeks of lockdown, possibly even longer. So it feels ever more important to look at the way this situation is being presented in order to work out the best possible outcome. We hear evidence that social distancing is effective in controlling the spread of Covid-19 and that we…
The Best of Us … The Worst of Us
“It was the age of wisdom; it was the age of foolishness.” The opening lines from A Tale of Two Cities, written by Charles Dickens in 1859, sound a strikingly familiar chord today. We have made extraordinary advances in science and technology but, at the same time, we have ruthlessly used and abused our environment,…
