I had a wonderful book reading session online with a School in Hampshire recently. One of the questions I was asked during this session was ‘are you famous?’ Fame, above all else seemed to be the pinnacle of many of these young children’s aspirations. I told them that they should focus on trying to find a career and occupation that they really love. How is it that as a nation we are breeding a generation of children who aspire to be famous. Read More →

‘I never have enough time’ is a common phrase we hear in our everyday lives but what, exactly, is time? It is, essentially, a construction that we, as humans, have devised to make sense of the world around us. It is an ephemeral measure of a day and how we structure what we do through it. Read More →

Music has an amazing power of recall- listening to one song can transport you back to a particular time in your life, indeed, music and songs can shape your life, they can teach you about the world around you and amazing emotions can be conveyed through a single note. Read More →

Do you ever think what you might have done differently if you had another life? Read More →

I am a creature of habit, like many of us are. I feel that lockdown has rather accelerated the habitual nature, certainly for me. I have got into my routine, albeit it fairly limited at present, and it is easy to forget that the rest of the big wide world exists sometimes. Lockdown has made many of us become fairly insular and while such a state was entered into with trepidation a year ago, it has now become the norm and the thought of venturing out of it again can feel quite a daunting prospect. Read More →

There was a lot of talk recently about going back to normal. But can we ever go back? We are different people from who we were at the beginning of the pandemic and even when things open again, we will not be living our lives the same way. Read More →

I have been having a recent discussion with my brother over Christmas about jobs. A lot of people do jobs that they don’t often enjoy but that give them the opportunity to create the sort of life they want around their jobs. Read More →

Why is it that we are conditioned to believe that we need to live our lives as well as we can so that we can reach the goal of one day settling down with another person.

The words ‘settling down’ imply that one must have been pretty wild to have something to settle down from and I don’t honestly think that anyone really is.  It also implies that once the person to ‘settle down with’ has been found that is then it- feet up, slippers on…there will be no more worries or need to strive or do anything any more. Read More →