Dec
31
One of the favourite New Year resolutions is to lose weight.
It made me smile when I read results of some research that NY resolutions rarely work. A tiny proportion of people succeed in keeping to them as far as the end of January. What a suprise.
Personally I think resolutions have more chance of succeeding if you […]
Dec
28
On training my brain
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I got the “must have” gift for Christmas here in the UK - a Nintendo DS with Brain Training ( and more Brain Training - is someone trying to tell me something?)
Anyway -as a self confessed games addict - online and on paper - it appealed to me and I have been hooked from the […]
Dec
21
Appreciation of old friends
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Do you have an old friend who you see occasionally - maybe only once or twice a year if that - but when you do meet them it seems like no time has passed at all? Maybe one of you has moved away, or the opportunities to meet are fewer -or there was maybe a minor […]
Dec
20
A wee bit of peace.
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I went to the local mall to try to finish my Christmas present shopping yesterday. There is an advert on TV for a store which depicts people in an ordinary high street running around manically with a desparate look on their faces trying to do that very thing with the song “It’s beginning to look a […]
Dec
19
The Christmas Play
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Last year I was invited to the Christmas Carol Concert at my friend’s primary school and I struggled not to cry. There is something about the joy - and innocence - of little children in that setting that sets me off.
Yesterday it was our own school play and this year it took the form of […]