Lock down has produced a number of challenges for everyone, it’s a sliding scale. Each day it becomes more normal, things that bothered you before now don’t, and things that didn’t now do, albeit temporarily. I admit that I find the slow pace of life nice. The lack of cars, people and general background noise […]
Reflecting on the past he could not remember how or why he had been invited the party. His immediate group of work mates were there, and a few additional guy who probably got invited to all the parties. They had the confidence and the cars to match, they were also five or six years older, […]
Paul Weller’s music has been played at least once a week for the majority of life from the age of 15. He wrote songs that reflected what was going on in my life at the time, mainly through manufactured association I admit. I guess that is the same for most people, every song on the […]
It was upon us before we had time evacuate. The call had gone out on local radio that it was heading across our part of the country. I now felt I had wasted time fitting the storm shutters as I could see only a mile away the tight knit black clouds linked to the earth […]
This post contains information relating mental health issues associated with bullying, isolation and circular thought issues. I am currently trying to support a number of my team remotely that are experiencing mental health issues. I have no medical experience in these matters, however, I understand we are all different and I do know my […]
I was recently asked by May Moore to take part in a project to support her upcoming online publication based on the diaries of 7 people in 7 days during the COVID-19 lock down. Never being one to keep a diary, I thought the exercise would be something new to try, and of course be […]
For those of you not familiar with the 1970’s UK TV show, ‘The Good Life‘ I will give you a very quick summary. Tom and Barbara Good live in the suburbs of London in a large detached house next door to Gerry and Margot Leadbetter. The Goods decide to become self sufficient and turn their […]
Inspired by May More’s meme #Bookmatters to write about my top 9 non-fiction books, I thought why not! There would have been 10 books, however, I had 5 more for that slot which would have been overkill! I used to be a big reader of military books, however, that phase of my life has past, […]
It took me time to find the bar initially, Glasgow was as an unknown to me then, as it is now. It was my 7th visit to the same place as I only had a reference point of location, not time. Money was going to be a problem as cash looked different in 1981. Although […]
I was never picked first to play football in the playground, in fact even having to choose me last always gave out a groan by the elected captains. Life is hard when your 8 ¾ but being almost 9 gave you hope that one day you would be picked, although it never happened. I couldn’t […]