January 7, 2018
A month or so before Christmas a young lady came to see me seeking help with her fear of flying. She was due to go on a trip to visit Poland’s Christmas markets but was terrified by the thought of stepping onto a plane. It reminded me of all the years I struggled with travel. […]
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December 31, 2017
New Year’s resolutions are nonsense. If you want to make changes to things that aren’t working in your life there is no need to wait until January 1st. You can change anytime you like and, in fact, you already do. By the last days of January most people will have forgotten about their New Year […]
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December 24, 2017
A few days ago I was imagining that I might spend Christmas ill in bed having been struck down by another bout of seasonal sickness. In what seemed like an unfairly swift follow up strike from my last bout in late November I was listless, nauseous and completely bereft of all energy. But there was […]
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December 17, 2017
It was 1987 and Catherine had broken up with me for the third time. The storm had ripped trees from the ground and roofs from the houses and garages. I spent all morning cutting up a fallen tree in her front garden in a selfless act of selfishness. If only she would catch sight of […]
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December 10, 2017
My brother must have been in his late teens when he first spent a week volunteering on the North Yorkshire Moors railway. Obsessed with steam from childhood I can only imagine his excitement and awe at working with the huge locomotive beasts and meeting the men and women that worked so hard to preserve their […]
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