January 7, 2024
My dog’s requirement for medication to be taken thirty minutes before breakfast has given me the perfect opportunity for an early start with my procrastination. As the wind and rain howl outside, I get up to make myself a cup of tea and return to bed with Daisy’s tablets where I stay for longer than […]
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December 31, 2023
Watching “Gardeners World” on the TV there’s an interview with a “snowdrop expert”, which makes me immediately question all of my life choices. Finding motivation and sustenance in something so niche is incredibly inspiring and a reminder, if one were needed, that there is almost infinite material to enjoy at our literal fingertips every single […]
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December 17, 2023
Henry Ford telling his employees that a customer can have any colour of Model T Ford “as long as it’s black” is a well-known anecdote even though it’s unlikely he ever said it. Regardless of whether or not he did, the sentiment is one we ignore at our cost. We’ve been lulled into the belief […]
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December 3, 2023
My inadvertent love affair with wonky pets began with my first dog, Toby, a collie cross rescue who was only six months old but already had a pin in his leg, as a result of being hit by a car. I’d just moved into my first house and I wanted a dog. Nothing fancy, just […]
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December 2, 2023
“Forex trading may make you rich if you are a hedge fund with deep pockets or an unusually skilled currency trader. But for the average retail trader, rather than being an easy road to riches, forex trading can be a rocky highway to enormous losses and potential penury.” – Investopedia. On our morning walk, as […]
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