It has been a week since I posted a flower picture. And this week, it was a toss up between the blooming lilacs which smell awesome, or the dahlias I planted in the pot outside our front door. The dahlias

Plus an update on my fractured elbow injury...

Before you say a single word. Before you make your point. Before you demonstrate your competence, your brilliance, your preparation. Seven seconds and the room has already formed an opinion. A powerful

If you could change one thing... While walking the dog together, I asked my daughter what is one thing she would change if she could at the snap of her fingers. This was spurred on by her choosing a

What was your favourite activity as a kid? I was thinking about this today and I can't really remember having a favourite thing to do. I enjoyed playing sports, but I don't think that was ever on my mind

He smelled like herb. It was the spring party evening at my daughter's school tonight, where the older kids put on a bit of a play of some kind, and there were a few songs and the like. However, as the

One dangerous habit people have these days is looking down on others like life cannot change overnight. It’s funny how someone will have small money today and suddenly start acting like they are better

On Sunday we went out walking from our place into the heathland and national park which is only one block away from our street, up a slight hill. We are always looking for reasonably short works, say an

With a client today, we were talking a bit about the stresses at work due to a lot of disruption, none of it positive. However, we then moved onto the world in general and again, very little positive came

I am on the train again, after a month break from visiting a client. Thankfully, the train doesn't have many people on it, as while I booked my seat according to the direction indicated in the app, it

Ayer fue un día lluvioso, como casi todos de la semana que recién acababa. Uno de esos días en los que te puedes levantar con la sensación de hoy talvez no sea un día y tan propicio para otra cosa que

When we become aware of someone—say, a fellow passenger on the same train—and see them as an individual who revolves around themselves, and who, just like us, has problems, doubts, worries, and so on,

Clean energy creation Environmental pollution reduction Human wellbeing Rather than wars and data centres for processing of AI uselessness, The majority of resources that lay outside of daily survival

Healthy is always in fashion. Unfortunately, trends care nothing for health and instead over the last decades have leaned into whatever is easiest, and purchasable. It is a big part of the reason that

This will be a weekly Sunday hangout between friends, where everyone else is also invited to join in on the conversations. A Sunday party for Hive users to interact and just talk crap about whatever happens

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about work, and what we’re all actually chasing. A friend of mine was recently made redundant after fifteen years with the same company. She's in her mid-50s, a time notoriously

I was going to have a picture of flowers. I have been outside in the garden so much the last few days and have taken photos of the various flowers, but I have used them in the last two articles, so I thought

How many things we overlook, or fail to appreciate, in our lives. Things that are always there, that we take for granted, and only truly value when we no longer have them, when they are missing. Almost

Our biggest problem is one we create ourselves. Each of us is a unique individual. But being unique does not necessarily mean we are special, in the sense of being better than others. No. We are different

We Talk Friday (WTF) This is a semi-regular series that I will run on Fridays to hold discussions on a current topic from the week gone. The aim is to keep them light and conversational, though some might