Pointing Finger

Therapy’s for other people

This is the time of year when we tend to pause and reflect.  Maybe we look back over the last year, maybe we look back...

January 1, 2020
Women Holding Xmas Present

Lonely this Christmas

Which age group do you think is most likely to say they experience loneliness at Christmas? Wrong. It’s not the...

December 1, 2019
Butterfly on Flower

How not to obliterate your garden

My friend does not have green fingers.  After he’s had a garden for a few years you need a machete to find your way...

November 1, 2019
Man Standing in Front of Mountain

The ‘you’ you don’t know

Do you ever feel you don’t understand why you do what you do?  Sarah’s like that.  She’s never managed to have a...

October 1, 2019
Old World War Plane

Courage

How easy would you find it to stand up in front of a potentially hostile audience and express yourself honestly? ...

September 1, 2019
Washed Up Boat

Failure

It took Thomas Edison 10,000 attempts before he invented a commercially viable lightbulb.  Did he regard them as...

August 1, 2019
Padlocked Gate

This blog is stolen

… from the BBC’s Arts Editor actually – Will Gompertz.  Or, more accurately, it’s copied.  You see, Gompertz...

July 1, 2019
Sunflower Field

We are not alone

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
2 Elephants in Wild

Am I that easy to forget?

It’s not exactly a compliment to say about someone, ‘They’re repressed’.  It usually implies they’re...

May 1, 2019
Cracked Egg in Bowl with Twigs

Revamping your life for spring

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
Lion by Rock Wall

If I ruled the world

An Apollo astronaut recently spoke on TV about his conviction that if you’re determined enough you can achieve...

March 1, 2019
Rose in Hand

Nobody till somebody loves you?

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