May 25, 2018
Like me, you’re probably sick to the back teeth of receiving requests from organisations asking permission to keep mailing you. If GDPR fatigue doesn’t exist I’m inventing it (I see that it does). In the end, it might well be apathy which decimates the size of mailing lists in Europes businesses rather than any deliberate […]
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May 19, 2018
In town, I am buying buckwheat flakes at the health food store. Taking my purchase to the counter I stare at the sign which has irritated me before and irritates me now. It’s so passive-aggressive, and of all the ways in which we can dismantle goodwill, this is surely one of the most unattractive and […]
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May 13, 2018
Running late for supervision I pop into the coffee shop for a cappuccino. “Do you want chocolate on top?” “No thanks, no chocolate” I always give the same reply. I’m aware the “No” alone is insufficient and needs bolstering by the statement which follows, clearly underlining my wishes. Moments later, as I watch her shake […]
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May 6, 2018
It felt as if we had temporarily returned to winter at the start of the week. Even the bluebells looked as if they were in shock as I walked across the fields, having dug my fleece out from the wardrobe for what I hoped would be “one last hurrah”. Daisy was unfazed and snuffled suspiciously […]
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April 29, 2018
A time ago in my life, I felt that the work I was doing with my then therapist had changed in such a way that I wasn’t getting the benefit from it I once had. But I continued to go to sessions because I was concerned about disappointing him. I don’t know when my sense […]
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