It was suggested this week that we take the CDs to the charity shop. “What, all of them?” I ask without fully understanding why a partial clear out feels less uncomfortable than getting rid of the whole lot. I don’t even have a CD player any longer. When my mother died she left a house […]
How To Deal With Pain
My daughter is sharing with me her reading list for university and bemoaning the cost of the textbooks in the way that one would if one were actually having to pay for them. I tell her about how I remember my own study books being astronomically expensive but how I really loved buying them all […]
How To Value Yourself
This week I was returning home from walking the dog and the couple I wrote about recently came around the corner. I heard them long before I saw them as if they’d continued on in a perpetual state of argument since the last time they appeared, him skulking moodily with a cigarette hanging from his […]
Why Constant Failure Makes You A Winner
On a short tour around the Kent and Sussex coast in the 1980’s my band and I hired a van and lugged our gear to venues booked by our hapless manager, “Fat Nick”. Fat Nick’s criteria for booking a gig was non-existent. If he could get us in, he did. A plan which proved terminally […]
How To Feel Happier With Less
In the woods, my head is spinning at all of the wild bounty springing forth from the trees and bushes. Elderberries as black as night hanging heavily like chandeliers, hawthorns bursting with bright red berries and, in a secret corner, a stash of sloes I have been patiently watching, waiting for the perfect moment at […]
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