Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia has only recently been given planning permission to allow the church to be completed. Work on it began in 1882. A 137 year wait is no laughing matter. But it puts into perspective waiting for your IT department to fix your computer, or your colleague to meet the deadline they’ve already missed… Read More It’s official . . .

Phubbing.  Yes, a new word to me too. Are you guilty? Look it up, why don’t you … unless you’re too busy to do that of course. 

I’d been reading a lot about emotions, so it was rather timely when watching the television recently to have come across a wonderful reference to them there … I was watching a property renovation programme where a couple where arguing about whether to spend money to renovate the house they lived in with a view… Read More It adds up . . .

At work, on any particular day, I can access, should I want to … a state of the art sports centre, including swimming pool, an early morning exercise class, a restaurant or a coffee shop (in abundance), a chemist, a monthly farmers’ market, a boating lake, a theatre, any one of a number of libraries,… Read More WLB . . .