Sometimes, walking through the woods I temporarily forget where we are in the year. There’s a mist, a light touch of grey and it seems like autumn. Then I turn a corner and see the tiny crowns of yellow in the distance. Daffodils poking their heads up above the muddy ground. But that autumn feeling […]

“Why do I still feel like this?” Recovery is a tricky beast. Experiencing a sink into anxious overwhelm at a number of random experiences seemingly conspiring to pull me down I am, momentarily, back in the same place I fought so hard to escape from. Emotion spills over and I rant at my daughter sitting […]

I remember some years ago the doctor giving me a sick note for the third of fourth time and, for the third of fourth time, I tucked it into my top pocket and went back to work. Looking back on it I’m not sure what help I was expecting if I wouldn’t take her advice, […]

I came across a video on the internet about a woman who wants to get into the Guiness Book Of Records for having the widest hips in the world. Bobbi-Jo Westley is literally dying to be famous. Her singular focus, even in the face of increasing difficulty living her life, appears to be self destruction […]

Aside from the depressing predictability of more daily revelations in the Harvey Weinstein case something else sits uncomfortably with me. It’s the sudden remorse and claims of sex addiction, at the point he has been exposed. This morning on Broadcasting House there was an interview with a guy called Jonny Scaramanga who had decided to […]