“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
I say motivation … my husband says nagging I say feedback … my husband says criticism Ha! What does he know? What I know? Perspective. Sometimes it’s a gulf; occasionally it’s an insight.
A friend remarked the other day: “You listen to a lot of radio, don’t you Christine?” I received this as a compliment. And yes, it’s true. I do listen to a lot. (Even though I can’t open my ears to any station other than BBC Radio 4.) So why radio? Simple. It’s life in technicolour. … Read More Listen up …
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