I spent a couple of hours gardening this afternoon and – at the end of a major weeding, pruning and watering session – it struck me how a garden is much like a body. Bear with me – I know it sounds a bit far-fetched… We all have a tendency over winter months to let ourselves go. Bad habits creep […]
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Sahara Trek 2019: Reflections on the trip of a lifetime
Four days. 100km. One large, hot desert. 17 remarkable people. Those are the numbers that tell just one part of the Sahara Trek I’ve just returned from, on behalf of The Brain Tumour Charity. It’s difficult to do justice to such a once-in-a-lifetime trip in one blog post, but I’m going to try by breaking up the experience into sections… […]
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Many of you will have heard of Hans Rosling. He was an eminent Swedish public health physician and lecturer who came to public attention through a number of TED talks he gave, explaining how little most of us (in the Western world, anyway) really know about the world. Sadly, Rosling died in February 2017, but his legacy lives on in […]
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