It is February 29th, leap year day. Regardless of their physical age, some people just don’t “grow up”. Just how old are you emotionally, mentally and spiritually? The phrase “grow up” is a bit of a misnomer – it implies that there...
A few days ago, I came across the above couple in Regents Park. They were literally taking their dog, Dino, for a ride around the park. Dino the huskey dog is now 15, which apparently makes him over 90 in human years! Suffering from arthritic knees, he now gets...
It is a beautiful Sunday morning here in London – crisp but gloriously sunny. It feels really quiet and peaceful outside and I can even hear the birds from my garden. A while ago I wrote about how Sundays mornings were the best time of the week for me. As I...
Last Saturday I was lucky enough to hear live a lecture by Professor Muhammad Yunus at the wonderful St James Church in Piccadilly London. Professor Yunus was honoured and recognised for this life changing work amongst the poor of Bangladesh with the Nobel Peace Prize...
This is the final article in my series for Valentines Day. I have already discussed just what is love and also shared my tips for finding the “special one” and also how to make an existing relationship even better. Especially check out the last one about...
It is Valentine’s Day today, in case you had not noticed. What with all this media hype and commercial overkill, you must have been living in a cocoon for a few days not to have noticed that it is the time of the year where a lot of normally sane people go out...
Continuing my theme for Valentine week, I am amazed at the pressure put on people to go out and do something for Valentine’s Day. There are currently so many single people out there and I know many who feel this pressure to be with someone. Are you single? Do...
It is Valentine week, and as usual in the Western world we are bombarded with all sorts of commercial pressure to go out and spend a fortune to show the true merit of our love for someone. I am guessing that this is now also the case in the rest of the world, as the...
Over the last few days I have finally got back into the stride of things and getting on with my life once again after the sudden passing away of my father. It has been a slow but comfortable process and what I have learnt is that I could simply not have hastened this...
It has been two very surreal and eventful months. After the sudden and untimely death of my father, where do I even begin to descibe the last few weeks?! Suffice to say that it has been like being in a dark fog for weeks on end, interspersed with the occassional bit...
