There comes a time in life when we can reach a particular status.   We become a big fish in our own little pond.   For sometime now I have been a big fish in my own little pond.  I am confident, I am capable, I can achieve whatever I want to achieve in my own [...]

Mark Twain once said that kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Kindness spreads love wherever you go.  It helps, it heals, it brings joy to those around you.  Princess Diana told us to ‘carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the [...]

And also for jocular, jocund, jovial – all having a similar meaning.  J is also for joy.  And J is for jelly…I like J words.
Charles Dickens once wrote ‘there might be some credit in being jolly’. ( The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, chapter 5).  How right he was.
Having a jolly disposition changes the [...]

I have fallen victim to the need to constantly check who’s doing what, where, when, and (if they tell you…) why!
Having had a new baby enter the family a short while ago, one who lives some distance away and has a mother (my niece) who updates her Facebook entries regularly, I find myself searching for [...]

Good luck, coincidence, fate, divine intervention – we all have different names for those extraordinary moments that come out of the blue, those moments that knock you off your feet because they arrive without any planning and without any prior warning, and you really do not expect them.
January in the UK is tax payment month.  [...]

When I was planning my trip to America I felt like a bit of a spendthrift.  I mean, how many ordinary people get to go to the USA, and especially at this point in time when so many are struggling to make ends meet?  It seems somehow less extravagant to say ‘I’m going to Turkey’, [...]

This is one of the longest breaks I have had between posts so far.  We have been putting a pond in at home and it has swallowed up much more time than I expected it to.
We have a small pond already, and each year the fish increase in numbers and the babies grow ever bigger.  [...]

Since I started the Masterclass some fantastic things have happened.  I could not be more pleased with the way this course has gone for me, both in terms of the people I have met, the work I have done and the amazing amount of things I have learnt.
One other thing I have been doing for [...]

I don’t usually include pre-written content in my blog posts but I have just been sent something by a friend that I would like to share with you, my loyal blog readers.  It is called ‘Stone’.
‘Two friends were walking through the desert.  During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend [...]

Actually it was a choice of that title or ‘I don’t need viagra’, and I thought that one might cause too many odd ads from adsense.  The fact that I’ve mentioned it in the body of the text might still subject me to that (and you, the readers!).  Maybe I am getting the hang of [...]