City Smoke or Sleepy Village?
Living at Home or Living Abroad Where would you choose to live – Bangkok or Broughton? Beautiful Broughton. Living in Broughton has always been one home. It’s the last week of term at my old school, Bangkok Patana. Although it is overseas I feel like I’m living at home in Thailand, yet to my family in the […]
The UK NHS Harmful and Substandard or Healing and Successful?
The NHS in the UK My dad’s had a bit of time of it this last year with his health, so we’ve been vey grateful to have the NHS here in the UK to draw upon. I’m a huge advocate for nursing staff particulary and feel they are incredibly underpaid and undervalued by our government. […]
Kids; Computers, Crayons and Connections
Ways to Entertain Children in Restaurants I’ve just discovered Brene Brown’s The Gifts of Imperfections, which I’m listening to as an audio book whilst I swim. It makes a very welcome change to Haruki Murakami’s Killing Commandatore which I’ve recently finished. It wasn’t that Killing Commandatore wasn’t interesting to listen to, but at 700 plus pages, I think I could […]
Moving by Jenny Eclair – Great Summer Read
Book Review of Moving by Jenny Eclair Moving by Jenny Eclair is an unexpected treat read. I probably chose this book because as a listener to the Older and Wider podcast, more than anything else, I was curious about the author, Jenny Eclair. I was doubtful whether a stand-up-comedian could really write good fiction and wondered whether […]
Join the June Challenge
Pleasing People I’ve set myself a June challenge, it’s nothing to do with diets or exercise or quantities of books devoured. … read on and see if you’d care to join me. I was talking to some friends the other day and we unearthed a very similar pattern of behaviour amongst us. It came as […]
Tears, Tantrums or Stiff Upper Lip
Why do we Cry? Last night I had the most horrible dream. The type of dream that isn’t at all subtle and brings all your worries to the surface. It actually woke me up crying, which is really weird as I’m not much of a crier! I can’t say that I’m not prone to the […]