Most of us instantly see Mothers Day as a day for celebrating and thanking our mums for looking after us and doing the best they could for us during our lives. However by definition the noun Mother is “a woman in relation to a child or children to whom she has given birth” and for […]
Those of us who have seen Desperate Housewives or similar will be all too aware that underneath the twitching curtains of civilised communities lies a wealth of secret and lies going on. “Not in Haywards Heath some may say”. I would say there are secret and lies everywhere. It is highly unlikely that you can […]
Did you feel a bit depressed yesterday – if so it was probably only to be expected as yesterday was the gloomiest day of the year according to Those That Know! I am not sure if feeling this way is just down to knowing in advance that yesterday was going to be the gloomiest day […]
Most years we all make resolutions that most of us don’t keep. Many of us often say “this year things are going to change”. However things don’t change. We do. If relationships etc are not going so well sometimes it isn’t just about changing them it is also figuring out what is going on with […]
I am not sure if there are any statistics about how parcels will be delivered between now and Christmas but I do know that many more people have shopped online this year presumably, if they are anything like me, they work late hours and/or are desperate to avoid the inevitable long queues in stuffy shops. […]
Not many of us could have escaped the news about the death of Gary Speed a few months back. . Whilst the actual reasons for it are not known and may never be known, the consensus of public speculation seems to indicate that it was suicide because of depression. “What on earth could have he […]
I am still surprised how by just talking about a worry can make the World a nicer place for us to be. It also never ceases to frustrate me how we are still are so backward about coming forward if we have some emotional sadness that we haven’t overcome. If we have a physical ailment […]
I travelled ‘Up North’ recently at some ridiculous hour and at each leg of my long journey, many people (mostly men) were carrying large carrier bags and sometimes boxes of beer which they proceeded to drink as keenly as most people drink their first cup of tea or coffee in the morning. By 8.00 am […]
Firework night with all its traditions can be such fun for all the family. Even the sudden noise of the fireworks exploding seems to add to the magic of it all. Except of course if we are at home and it takes us by surprise! Then the sudden eruption of the fireworks going on, and […]
Everywhere we turn we are faced with signs asking us to Quit Smoking. There is a national campaign to provide smokers with all the evidence to persuade them that smoking is bad for their health and to cease in their own best interests and we have large scale offerings of how to do that. We […]
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