The time to test the skills you learnt on 5-minute crafts is not on Mother’s Day, while making your mum breakfast in bed. Never mind, you know dad will clean up the mess.
The side of Rwanda we don’t usually see. Pretty cool.
My wife and I have never owned a flagship smartphone — not new, anyway. We’ve always had budget handsets, costing just a few pounds a months. The closest I’ve come is a Galaxy S8, just as the S20 was hitting the shelves. A fine phone, regardless. But when my beloved started looking for a new …
An observation from my travels. Purely anecdotal, of course. That many caring services are managed by people who haven’t a sinew of compassion or empathy in their body. That some services tasked with making the public better are making their own employees sick. “It’s just a job,” retorts the stressed out manager, under unimaginable pressure. …
We are all multifaceted, a product of many factors, composed of many parts. My character and temperament has to have been forged by my environment, upbringing and experiences. Being raised in a very religious Christian family — with strict expectations around behaviour, the third of four children — was no doubt as influential as biological …
With many companies, their directors and shareholders making gargantuan profits, you have to acknowledge that the cost of living crisis is rather a misnomer. In fact, it’s really a festival of greed, in which the few are living the high life at the expense of the many. But don’t worry, the many are too busy …
I think we can credit treatment more than anything, but suddenly I find myself not just assertive in meetings, but also lucid and more fluent in making myself understood. Perhaps it’s also the feeling of liberation from the designs of a colleague now departed, who once seemed to undermine every effort. It’s possible, of course, …
Who would’ve thought it? The closest we’d get to an opposition in this country is a bunch of football commentators. Labour and the LibDems: missing in action. Thank goodness for that guy from the Walkers crisps adverts.
The further we get from events the more we doubt our recollections, or at least our interpretation of them. Likewise, the more we understand about ourselves, the more likely we are to doubt the significance of events which once seemed all-important. By now I am willing to concede that my own understanding of events may …
I would have said all of this.
Wandering along our local high street just now, I was very pleased to see a little old English lady handing out fliers which read, “Resist Racism.” Brilliant. Yes, resist!
We work unpaid overtime not because we are fools, but because a promise is a promise. I agreed to deliver a piece of work on time, and so I must follow through. That’s why I started at seven in the morning yesterday and finished at half-past nine at night, red eyes and all. That’s why …
Often, when I consider the portrayal of our faith both from within and without, I wonder if there is any hope for those we love and admire. Are they even capable of cutting through the mire to discern even a little goodness in our tradition? And yet, despite these pervasive thoughts, the kind of heart …
