I left politics way, way behind me as a tear fell down my cheek on reading a rather amazing story. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-42270275 The hero of it? Lisa Campbell, an American grandmother to six. So I’m taking my step into 2018 with her words in my heart: “I hope that my legacy here is that the people… Read More Feeling humbled …
“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.” Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
“Everything I know about people I learned from pens. If they don’t work, you shake them. And if they still don’t work, you chuck them away. Bin ’em.” (Pauline Campbell-Jones (played by Steve Pemberton), The League of Gentlemen) I absolutely love League of Gentlemen. And I especially love this quote – it’s delicious. Completely untrue,… Read More This is what I know …
I know that difference is good. I want it in my life. I respect diversity in thought and appearance and culture. And yesterday … My beloved: “Will you help me sort out my email settings on my phone?” The phone is passed to me. I navigate to a few places. I hand the phone back. … Read More I’m different …
BBC’s Front Row recently asked: “Inheritance Movies: what’s the film you’ve inherited from your family, and what’s the film you’d like to pass on?” I guess many of us will have been watching a few over recent days. What would yours be?
“One can never have enough socks,” said Dumbledore. “Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.” J K Rowling (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone)
I don’t often get excited about slow cookers. Fabulous as they are for delivering a one- pot wonder, I’ve always thought of them as a staple kitchen item. Safe, useful, not often spoken about. But today, life has changed for ever. The slow cooker status has been elevated to genius. It began a few days… Read More Happy Christmas …
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies . . . Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die . . . It doesn’t matter what you do, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like… Read More On the eve of something big …
I’m really lucky to work in a place where, across several sites, there are good coffee shops available. And in those spaces, people do have coffee. Sales always look rather good. But I also know that more than coffee drinking takes place there. As well as the coffee, there are meetings and conversations and networking… Read More Drink in, or take away?
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” Plato
