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Weekend Read 7 May 2022(Post)
As I welcome you to another Weekend Read, I just need to tell you that I’m flying back to London as you read this. No doubt I will have endless emails to respond to when I get home, so please bear w ...
Weekend Read 10 April 2021(Post)As I welcome you to another Weekend Read, I want to begin by saying a few words about acknowledgement. And I’m pretty big on the subject. There are so many different forms of acknowledgement, so th ...
Weekend Read 5 February 2022(Post)Shop The Weekend Read And it’s February, with all that it brings. For me it brings a continued determination to stay as close as we are in order that we may overcome, as best we can, the ongoing fal ...
How To Combat Stress Effectively(Post)Modern-day lifestyles often dictate a more hectic and faster-paced way of living, which can often result in raised stress levels; but what is the definition of stress? The classic definition of stres ...
A Paean To Tea(Post)“I feel really unhappy.” It’s a puerile statement for any mother to make, my only defence being it’s day 58 of lockdown, I’m still in pyjamas and the migraine drugs have left me a lethargic mess on ...
Weekend Read 26 February 2022(Post)As I welcome you to this Weekend Read, the world is witnessing some of the most appalling atrocities against humanity. There are not enough words to describe the abject horror we are all feeling and ...
Weekend Read 19 March 2022(Post)As I welcome you to another Weekend Read, tomorrow is officially the first day of Spring with all that it brings, and that would of course include the hope we collectively hold for lighter days ahead ...
Weekend Read 28 May 2022(Post)As I welcome you to another Weekend Read, I am more or less doing the same as I did last Saturday and I’m going straight into it, without too much preamble. All I really want to say here is that the ...
I Can See (My Computer) Clearly Now…(Post)I’m going to let you in on a little secret. A secret which optometrists have apparently mostly been keeping to themselves. And a secret I’d never have been let in on if my friend Maggie hadn’t accide ...
Iron Tablets – Who Needs Them?(Post)There are approximately six million prescriptions for iron tablets being issued each year in England and Wales. This does not surprise me because iron is essential to life as it plays a key role in t ...
Cool To Be Kind(Post)The place was rammed. Friday night, late November, a gallery on Duke Street in St James, central London. Inside home counties couples and groups of W11 women shuffled through the small space, strai ...
Weekend Read 23 April 2022(Post)As I welcome you to another Weekend Read, I think we should go straight in, but before we do that I just want to say that we are constantly being challenged with any number of issues pertaining to th ...