Maintenance. Let’s face it, it’s not a sexy concept, is it? It smacks of drudgery and duty, to me at least, something that you really ‘should’ do, but which often falls by the wayside in place of something more exciting and shiny. As Kurt Vonnegut wrote in Hocus Pocus “Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to […]
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At one with nature
I hadn’t intended to write anything to coincide with this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week – in my view, we should be able and willing to talk about mental health any time we want and not need a special week for it. But I changed my mind. This morning I went for my regular early dip in the sea, which […]
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Reading one of Nick Cave’s excellent Red Hand Files reminded me of the Bill Bernbach quote that I shared on LinkedIn back in 2016. Fast forward four years and – right now – being bold feels like a dangerous activity. Cave himself hits the nail on the head with this quote: “…what songwriter could have predicted thirty years ago that […]
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