Recent Blogs.- ANOTHER TOY STORY July 26, 2021Let me take you back in time. It’s 1979. The Walkman was the hot, new product. Apple launched their first personal computer: it was agreed it would never catch on. Radio-Control toys were all the rage and there was a large, ghastly rubberised spider which lurched towards you and could only be stopped by shooting […]
- WE SHOULD TALK MORE (AND OTHER PANDEMIC LESSONS) July 12, 2021We are about to take a break. It’s not a full-blown, duty free, “do I have enough books and suntan lotion?” holiday. But I still have that new-chapter-in-my-life feeling.My stark realisation is the past months have disappeared in a mess of self-absorption. Nothing remarkable achieved, failed or celebrated. So the effect of a new place […]
- DEJA BLOODY VU - WHAT'S NEW? July 5, 2021“So this is SummerAnd what have you doneAnother year of CovidAnd a new one just begun” …My apologies to the late John Lennon and Yoko Ono for bowdlerising their Christmas song protesting against the Vietnam war; yet another story of governments getting it wrong and where heavy handed might was neither right nor successful.This coronavirus […]
- REGAINING OUR SENSE OF PERSPECTIVE June 28, 2021One consequence of this extended lockdown is to make us lose our perspective. We’re like someone in the Truman Show (the 1998 film about a TV reality show) or, worse, we’re in Ambridge and part of the Archers – “an everyday story of country folk” as it was cosily described.Being stuck in the same place […]
- GOAL!!! June 21, 2021I feel out of touch. We’re in the middle of the Euros and I don’t feel engaged. Worse…whenever I hear the word I think of “Uros” or Urology, the branch of medicine that focuses on surgical and medical diseases of the male and female urinary-tract.What’s wrong with me? What’s not to like about this tribal, […]
- ANOTHER TOY STORY July 26, 2021