December 18, 2022
I’m on a Zoom call in supervision but finding it hard to concentrate because out of my window, I’m watching a car trying to get around the corner by the church. The ice is so thick on that little stretch after a significant snowfall last weekend and sub-zero temperatures all week that it has become […]
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December 11, 2022
Yes, it’s December 11th, that time of year when you start afresh with your resolutions, creating a “new you” that will endure long into the future. OK, I know that today isn’t the day traditionally set aside for a new start but while I am a big fan of positive change, New Year resolutions leave […]
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December 4, 2022
On the podcast last week Martin asked me if I remembered the advertising campaign in the 1980s launched by the British Phonographic Industry to reduce copyright infringements. “Home taping is killing music.” “Do you think anyone took any notice?” I asked. We agreed that nobody did. I wrote recently about buying a CD player, tiring […]
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November 27, 2022
It’s Black Friday, an unwelcome import encouraging us to part with money we don’t have to adorn ourselves and our houses with things we don’t need. For someone like me, constantly wrestling with a tendency toward a scarcity mindset, Black Friday offers little incentive other than to occasionally gratefully receive a few pounds off something […]
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November 20, 2022
In our strenuous efforts to exert control, we mostly find that we don’t have any. ”It rained and it rained and it rained. Piglet told himself that never in all his life, and he was goodness knows how old – three, was it, four? – never had he seen so much rain” So begins chapter […]
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