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…
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…
This is a post about people we admire. A post I have been looking forward to writing all year.  And timely, too – six months on from my first post of the year – writing about The Lunch Bowl Network in Kenya. Arguably my most important post and well worth a read – even…
I am bemused by how many people appear to be enjoying lockdown – and talk as though it might be a new way forward.  The new era whereby work is something that we did, do you remember? Or that work is something we do – but we now do it from home. How civilised…
This is an odd featured image but there is a good reason for it and which I will get to shortly. Because it has happened again. I received another email from Google explaining in google-speak that I have infringed their rules and that my Google AdSense account is suspended. This is irksome but it is…
