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Getting Your Freedom at Last
Have you ever been through one of those life changing events when suddenly something happens that stops you dead in your tracks, and make you wonder what the hell you are doing! Well I think that most of us have had a similar experience, but I wonder how many of us actually do something about [...]
Asking Ourselves Those Difficult Questions
There are occasions in our lives when we are faced with questions that we never imagined would be asked of us. Those questions come from within us as we travel on the journey of life and are really difficult to answer. Whatever answer we come up with, are likely to change our lives dramatically. Unless [...]
Routine or Stress?
Each morning I wake up and wonder what the day holds for me. Will it be full of the normal stuff or will something happen that is different from usual? Well the obvious answer that most of us would like to hear is that it will be a special day and different! Actually this is [...]
Riots, Riots and more Riots!
In the last few days in London here in the UK, we have seen numerous riots involving what appears to be young people both white and ethnic. They have set buildings, cars and even a bus on fire, and have smashed dozens of shop windows and looted the contents. Although the police have been doing [...]
Controlling Your Day to Day Activities
For the last 25 years or so I have been involved in writing. Not fiction best sellers as some do, but writing reports, job specifications, training documents, rather large 50,000+ word business proposals as well as my blogs. In itself, that is not that special as most of us will have to do these things [...]
How Can We Help New Dawn?
In 1975, following an invasion from Morocco after Spain relinquished the territory known as Western Sahara, many thousands of Sahrawi people walked over 600 kilometres across scorching deserts to flee the brutal Moroccan invasion, sadly thousands died on the journey as they made their way to Algeria. On arrival they established a series of large [...]
What Do You Really Want from Life?
I was recently asked this question by one of my friends after moaning to her that I was fed up being stuck at home for the last nine months all by myself! Well that’s not strictly true as my wife comes home each evening from her job and I have the occasional fleeting visit from [...]
Would a Scrap with Death Make You Think?
As most of you already know I was diagnosed with bowel cancer earlier this year. What is interesting is that my condition and the resulting operation left me with six months of chemotherapy and also a pain condition that is most telling. Reflecting back on the last few months made me realise that I had [...]
Disabled, To Be or Not to Be!
A few days ago we had need to go to our local supermarket so that my wife could pick up some essential supplies for our evening meal. It had been a long hot day and I was tired and not really in the mood for fighting my way through the hordes of shoppers so I [...]
Retiring at 66, 67 or even 70 plus?
Over the last few days we have been hearing a lot about the proposed changes to the retirement age. For men that is likely to start going up from 2016 to 66 and then progressively until the age of 70 or even later. The issue I have is that the idea is fine, as it [...]
