When The Sea Is Rough, Mend Your Sails

When The Sea Is Rough, Mend Your Sails

We all take comfort in different things. When times get hard you may go for a run, call your best friend, hide under a blanket eating cake or getting the glad rags on shouting for tequila. I have always taken solace in books. I am a natural researcher. Given a problem...
King Roger

King Roger

Roger Federer is Wimbledon Champion for 2017 and all is right with the world.   Watching Wimbledon has been tradition in my family for years. Bless us, we are not an athletic family but we have opinions on tennis. I remember the end of the Borg/McEnroe era. I...
What Does Success Look Like?

What Does Success Look Like?

Are you successful? Are you winning at life? The daily grind of house work/monkeys/work feels big and icky and there’s a tantalising feeling that there’s a better way to do stuff or, more importantly, that I’ve been focusing on the wrong things....
Musical Roots

Musical Roots

We all like to think that we are shiny individuals and that our tastes and passions are unique. When you scratch the surface we all know that we are the product of many things and our worlds have shaped who we are. The world will give you knocks and bruises but also...
Courtney Love

Courtney Love

I think the idols we worship in our teenage years have the most sway on us. I was 14 when grunge happened and it was my music. My peers at school were into the Happy Mondays and rave culture despite the fact that the nearest they got to someone twisting their melon...
Democracy

Democracy

Ah, the unnecessary general election. Now, I can go into a pretty major rant about this but given my own rules that I can only focus on the positives in life on this site you’ll have to buy me a gin and tonic and let me step onto my soapbox to hear that one.  ...