If I were a man, maybe I’d have spoken up this week. Or maybe I’d have been silent the way the vast majority of boys have been. If I were a man I probably wouldn’t have a personal back catalogue of experiences of sexual assault, verbal abuse and physical intimidation. If I were a man […]
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TFI Spring! Fresh start anyone?
Daffodils have started injecting colour into the roadsides once more. The sky has been blue all weekend, and people have been outside topping up their Vit D. March is the official beginning of Spring. I can’t speak for other areas of the UK or the world, but it feels like a fresh start is upon […]
Happy Random Acts of Kindness Week
It’s a bit like the best bits of Christmas, but with a less repetitive soundtrack 😉 Say what? Well, we all know the best fun part of Christmas is making other people smile. The Christmas Spirit infects us at some point in December (yes, December people, not October or November!) and we start wishing random […]
Children’s Mental Health Week
After nearly a year of disrupted schooling and intermittent social interaction, our children are suffering. A lot of their parents are struggling too. The current lockdown is making the first one feel like a summer holiday in comparison. 1st Lockdown When the schools first closed in March 2020, the sun was out and it felt […]
Watching History Being Made
I don’t know about you, but I watched the inauguration on Wednesday afternoon with a fair bit of emotion. I’m not even American, but I grew up watching movies promoting the American Dream. Seeing the sun come out for the end of the Trump stain and the arrival of Biden and Harris was the first […]
The Magic of Hugs
In honour of National Hug Day, I’m writing about one of my absolutely favourite things. Hugs. As a child, I was accused of being a limpet more times than I can remember. As I grew, there were jokes about me giving chiropractic adjustments. Yes, I’m a serious hugger! This pandemic has really curtailed my hugging […]
Blue Monday
If you’re of a certain age and musical background, you may also have read the title and felt New Order’s type writer drum machine beat start in your head. Here’s a link if you fancy a listen – I may have written the first chunk of this blog while it played in the background 😉 […]
New Year, New Incremental Improvement
Happy January! New Year, new lockdown… How are your resolutions holding out? I confess I was already feeling the “I’ll start on Monday” vibe before Boris locked the UK down again, so my Veganuary hasn’t begun yet… What I am embracing is the Atomic Habits approach to incremental improvement. James Clear’s book has millions of […]