May 27, 2017
On Tuesday morning I woke to the news of the terrible events in Manchester. My heart dipped noticeably on hearing that the tragedy had occurred at a concert given by Arianna Grande. My daughter had been due to go on Friday and I was filled with a mixture of emotion I couldn’t describe. The feeling wasn’t […]
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May 20, 2017
Discussing a challenge this week in supervision it is suggested to me that I am “in my head”. Often it’s a reasonable place to be because practical solutions and strategies are best constructed there, but this time it wasn’t serving me. Sometimes the best way to feel better means moving away from what seems like […]
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May 20, 2017
It’s been years since I grew tomatoes and, as I don’t have a greenhouse, I am at the mercy of the vagaries of an English summer. Whilst overjoyed at the number of fruits on my little clutch of plants I admit some considerable disappointment at the mountain of little green orbs that, even with a […]
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May 13, 2017
In the paper last Sunday there was an advert on the back of a supplement detailing a number of workshops, one of which caught my eye, “How To Launch And Run A Successful Food Business”. It made me laugh and I wondered if page one of the syllabus might say “Have a good idea, be […]
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May 13, 2017
My son had his last day at school this week and, as if rewound back through the years at pace, I was transported to his first. Nervous at being left, often tearful, and unwilling to grasp the concept of this brutal wrenching away from his mother being a thing of permanency for the next fourteen […]
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