My daughter is sharing with me her reading list for university and bemoaning the cost of the textbooks in the way that one would if one were actually having to pay for them. I tell her about how I remember my own study books being astronomically expensive but how I really loved buying them all … [Read more...] about How To Deal With Pain
Happiness
How To Value Yourself
This week I was returning home from walking the dog and the couple I wrote about recently came around the corner. I heard them long before I saw them as if they’d continued on in a perpetual state of argument since the last time they appeared, him skulking moodily with a cigarette hanging from his … [Read more...] about How To Value Yourself
Why Constant Failure Makes You A Winner
On a short tour around the Kent and Sussex coast in the 1980’s my band and I hired a van and lugged our gear to venues booked by our hapless manager, “Fat Nick”. Fat Nick’s criteria for booking a gig was non-existent. If he could get us in, he did. A plan which proved terminally flawed the night … [Read more...] about Why Constant Failure Makes You A Winner
How To Feel Happier With Less
In the woods, my head is spinning at all of the wild bounty springing forth from the trees and bushes. Elderberries as black as night hanging heavily like chandeliers, hawthorns bursting with bright red berries and, in a secret corner, a stash of sloes I have been patiently watching, waiting for the … [Read more...] about How To Feel Happier With Less
Why Ignorance Is Never Bliss
Walking in Cuckoo Woods with Daisy we are with my sister’s own four dogs. Daisy loves to be with “the pack” and hurtles backwards and forward through the melee making sure that everyone is present and correct. As the path runs alongside the fields there is a stream which meanders through the … [Read more...] about Why Ignorance Is Never Bliss