Talking of Anne Frank and her message of all people having goodness in them, three years ago I was lucky enough to be invited to Downing Street for the re-launch of the Anne Frank charity in the UK. Though this charity is not that well known, it does some amazing and...
Last week, I telephoned an old friend to catch up after quite a few months. After the usual pleasantries, she mentioned how fed up she was of people and how she had lost her faith in humanity. I probably got her on a bad day, as usually she is very open, giving and...
I recently wrote about how with the arrival of spring it was time to find THE one. Last Saturday, I attended the wedding of one of my best friends in a central London hotel. It was my first ever major muslim wedding and also one of the best weddings I have been to....
Talking of what makes you sing and finding your song, here is one of my regular interviews with the inspiring people in my life. I have now known Helen Astrid for five years after we met at one of those early morning business networking meetings. I didn’t get...
Lately, I have been meeting many people who are either already singers or they want to learn to sing. It seems that I am attracting singers into my life! Only this morning I had coffee with a new friend, a flight attendant (also known as air stewardess / air hostess)...
Yesterday morning, I spent three hours watching the London marathon on TV. Sport is about the only thing I watch on TV so this was pure indulgence. If things had panned out differently, I too would have been running yesterday. I wrote in January about how this was the...
Spring is in the air and last Sunday I was in my favourite place in the whole world – Regents Park. The cherry trees were in blossom and were quite spectacular to say the least. This scene reminded of a great quote I came across recently from Chilean poet, Pablo...
For my regular coaching column in “Asian Woman Magazine”, I was recently asked this question:- Lately I have been feeling rather low in energy. I feel lethargic and have no interest in doing anything. How can I get out of this mind set? This is what I...
As I write this, the scaffolding from outside my window is finally being removed, six weeks after it was first put up to investigate a leak from the roof. At the time, I wrote about how the scaffolding had first been put up against the wrong house! I also used the...
It is Friday the 13th! In many cultures, a Friday occurring on the 13th day of any month is considered to be a day of bad luck. This is especially so amongst English, German, Polish and Portuguese-speaking cultures around the globe. Strangely, in Greece or Spain...
