An upside of my chosen profession is that I have not needed to lie for many years. And if not lie, then at least misrepresent. This is because I have not needed to prepare my Curriculum Vitae or Resume; perhaps the hardest document any of us are ever required to write. Our achievements laid bare…
A post this week inspired by an email I received from someone I have never met…  I am a nostalgic type and becoming ever more so, which I suspect is quite normal and just a factor of age. I have great affection for my childhood, particularly my school days and despite only faring averagely…
I begin with an exchange I had this morning walking my dog, to demonstrate the  importance of language and to frame the subject of this blog. Tess (my dog) and I are in the park. It is baking hot and neither of us are very comfortable. A lady approaches me in a very flustered state…
I find that there are little moments in life that catch us out; some good and some bad. Driving home from afar and being able to pick up a local radio station again is a good moment. A hazy signal at first and not clear enough to listen to comfortably, Â but becoming stronger with every…
I am conflicted of late… As our hapless politicians urge us to get spending again and eating in restaurants in order to save the economy and one another’s livelihoods. Naturally I am disposed to supporting local businesses as I have written about on this blog already. We have a local butcher, a fish monger, a…
Early one morning in our kitchen and waiting for the tea bags to sufficiently leach, I turned on the radio. A well-known song had just started which normally would not distract me but this morning, it did. It stopped me and made me listen all the way through until it had finished. A testament to…
That feeling when someone is at your front door – selling something.  It happened last week to Nikki – and thinking quickly, she took immediate and decisive action.  “I’ll get my husband.”  You can imagine how I received this news? Disbelief is a polite way of putting it, but inaccurate.  Door…
All those years ago when I first presented my young boys with a half a grapefruit each for breakfast, I had no idea where it might lead. They were rejected of course, the grapefruits, I mean. Tom, Sam and Harry basically downed spoons. Too bitter. Too unappetising and on my part, too ambitious. “We want…
You might be aware of celebrity golf days – whereby businessmen pay top dollar for the honour of playing golf with usually a professional golfer and a celebrity.  I don’t fit well in to either of these categories. I am not a celebrity. And I am certainly not a scratch golfer.  And so,…
We might all snigger every year, when two American baseball teams contest the World Series. America is still the foremost nation on earth, but claims of being World Champions in a contest confined to their own shores is delusional and emotes the affectionate phrase – Only in America. The Washington Nationals are the current World…
