Recent Blogs.- GO ON. BRING ME EXCITEMENT. January 17, 2022OK, I’ve changed my mind. Now the time’s right for some excitement. A surprise. A bit of spontaneity. Perhaps a bit of danger. In cricket that series in Australia sums up how most of us feel: lethargic, disengaged, disappointing. Depressingly the effect of nearly two years of Covid has been to make many of us […]
- I AM RIGHT AND YOU ARE WRONG January 10, 2022Written in 2009 Edward De Bono’s book is based on the idea that most of our everyday decision-making tends to be confrontational. Whether in large meetings, one-to-one or even in our own heads, opposite viewpoints are angrily pitted against each other. Ultimately contestants seem to think there must be a winner and a loser. The title […]
- LOOK FORWARDS, LOOK UP AND LOOK OUT January 3, 2022It’s not unusual to spend this strange time between Christmas and New Year reflecting and resolving to do better. It’s been variously called Chrimbo Limbo, Food Week and, more darkly, the Void. I think it’s a time to reset our world and lift ourselves up.We need to have things to look forward to. Diaries last […]
- HAVE AN EVEN HAPPIER CHRISTMAS THE USUAL December 23, 2021The Christmas story seldom changes. Presents. Crackers. Santa. Carols. Christmas cards and the greatest story ever told. Shops and ‘Toys-of-the Year’ come and go but there’s an annual constant in our lives. Anticipation, celebration, decoration and fun.Another constant is the illusion that this year it’ll snow. But there’ve been only 10 white Christmases in the […]
- THE HARSH WIND OF WINTER December 20, 2021No. Not the weather. Rather it was the rowdy debate in the House of Commons and, specifically, the torrents of unseasonal, ill humour that we saw from the government backbenches. We have become used to it over time but something snapped on December 14th. People I know who have always voted conservative were aghast at […]
- GO ON. BRING ME EXCITEMENT. January 17, 2022