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This might seem like a random couple of questions but I have been thinking about singing a lot today which is a direct result of having a wonderful evening at the Showcase show last night. The members of Showcase put on a show each year to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Care. The performers were […]

I have had the pleasure of helping out at our Breakfast Club this week as the mainstay of the team is poorly. I am not as bright and bubbly in the morning as I am later in the day but being with the children as they get stuck into their breakfast has been a joy.
They […]

It’s easy really. Be positive….or change  from negative thoughts and behaviour .
It works. Trust me.
In my old age I have a default setting of “positive”. It has not always been that way and there are of course times when negativity is perfectly acceptable and - dare I say - healthy.
But …I was having a day […]

A group of parents, teachers and pupils were working on a questionnaire about health issues at the school yesterday. We split into groups to start to analyse the data. I was working with a young lady from Primary 5 - that makes her 9.
After she had read out the responses and I did the calculations […]

When I left the UK to go to New Zealand at the end of August the press here was full of stories about young men being killed in stabbings, worries about increasing violence related to gang culture, deaths on the road for young drivers,drug related crime and drink related offences( the UK press really love […]

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