As I wrote the title for this blog I was drawn to use an analogy with which most of us are familiar, without fully understanding why and what my point would be. In 1915 it was the American writer Elbert Hubbard who is accredited with saying that: ‘When life gives you lemons, make lemonade’ In […]
Category: such is life
Game set and Match! – 2nd update
Yep!! It’s May already and at last, the sun is shining having failed to turn up for spring thus far. Spring is my favourite season of the year, but like the sun, I am guilty of being absent on parade this year for various reasons some of them even legitimate. That being said, progress has […]
Game set and match! 1st update
It has been just over a week now since my last confession and it has been one that has yielded mixed results. Like our esteemed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who has made 5 pledges aimed at improving the health of the nation, I chose 5 aimed at improving my own. I have no clue as […]
Game set and match!
First service Tie break This morning I awoke to find myself on the potential cusp of a whole new start. Not that there haven’t been many other occasions when I have made this exact same proclamation only for my good intentions to evaporate into the ether usually by lunchtime on the same day. […]
When springs are bustin’ out all over?
The above is a photograph of what until very recently was my permanent place of residence, and after performing above and beyond for almost two years my lockdown chair not unreasonably called time on its relationship with my bottom. I knew that this parting of the ways was both inevitable and necessary at some point, […]
The climate of change
I wrote the following piece around 2007 just as the so-called credit crunch began to bite. I can’t recall why, or even who I wrote it for but its re-emergence today caused me to stop and think how easy it is sometimes not to see the wood for the trees Whilst I knew about climate […]
A Light bulb moment?
Ooookay people… if this rather large light bulb dangling from the ceiling in my newly refurbished office doesn’t qualify me for a ‘moment’ I really don’t know what will. The phrase ‘lightbulb moment’ is designed to convey the arrival of an inspirational thought in all the time it takes to illuminate well… a light bulb. […]