One Thing I Am TOTALLY sure of is that .. Everyone wants to be loved just as they are. We don’t want to be loved, despite our less attractive bits. We want to to be totally and unconditionally loved. This is true of us all, from the poorest to the richest, from the kindest to […]
Having been tricked into a competition to see if I could lick my elbow by the cruel MADs Blog Awards organiser Sally Whittle (check it out, because you can get a ticket to the awards ceremony or a goodie bag if you pick how many people managed the challenge), she cruelly described me thus … […]
This is a message for the grumpy old man and the younger male driver who yesterday took umbrage at me pulling over to the side of the road with my hazard lights on and making it a little difficult for them to get out of their road because they had to pull out more than […]
Wow, what a magic thing twitter is! One day a few months ago I said I wanted to go to a family festival and asked for advice, having never been to any (I know that’s a bit tragic). Go to Just So they said; so we did! Verdict: BEST family festival ever, what a brilliant […]
So I thought I was doing pretty well to go on holiday for 2 weeks and hardly touch my phone at all. I kept thinking about how well I was doing ‘unplugged’. I was ignoring the quick check of my iPhone in the evenings. Plus the growing sense of desperation as the button on my […]
This weeks question corner is very difficult and sad to answer. In a blog post I can’t give a complete and total answer, but I can give guidance on where to start. Background A few weeks ago I was approached by a mum who was wanting to ask the American courts to see and talk […]
After writing my post ‘The problem with politics is it doesn’t understand human behaviour’, I’ve been thinking even more about the Riots, as I’m sure many others of you have done as well. I was mainly making the point in my post that it is psychologically detrimental to give people benefits for no fair exchange […]
I know that everyone is a sucker for a ‘Lose xxx pounds in xxx ridiculous time’ so I couldn’t resist this one! I’ve just got back from holiday, where I did a lot of worrying about myself in a bikini, until I realised that there is a HUGE advantage to going on holiday to a […]
When I was pregnant with Curly headed boy I became an ‘orphan’. Sounds daft to think of it like that at 36 years old; but 6yrs, 16yrs, 26yrs, 36yrs or more and having no parents does feel like being an ‘orphan’. When you are an ‘orphan’ and therefore have no parents, what crosses your mind […]
I’ve just read a really jaded piece in the daily mail by Julie Burchil saying that most of us will never be pretty and that the song in which Christina Aguillera says we are all beautiful is partly to blame. It’s the perfect thing to put a dampner on an already wet and miserable day. But […]