It took Thomas Edison 10,000 attempts before he invented a commercially viable lightbulb. Did he regard them as...
August 1, 2019
… from the BBC’s Arts Editor actually – Will Gompertz. Or, more accurately, it’s copied. You see, Gompertz...
July 1, 2019
I knew very little about Van Gogh when I went to a ‘Van Gogh and Britain’ exhibition at the Tate. I still...
June 1, 2019
It’s not exactly a compliment to say about someone, ‘They’re repressed’. It usually implies they’re...
May 1, 2019
Do you have a nagging sense that changes need to be made in you and in your life? Are you dissatisfied with aspects of...
April 1, 2019
An Apollo astronaut recently spoke on TV about his conviction that if you’re determined enough you can achieve...
March 1, 2019
When I was a child I couldn’t understand why most pop songs were about romantic love. Why weren’t there any about...
February 1, 2019
What do you want most for yourself over the coming year? In my previous blog I talked about a desire for our...
January 1, 2019
Plunging out of an aircraft, doing a cookery course, going to a stand-up comedy show, having a beauty treatment, taking...
December 1, 2018
They looked like they were going to kill each other. They were yelling eyeball to eyeball, gesticulating wildly and...
November 1, 2018
