

Tooth-Hurty
Patient: Doctor, I have yellow teeth, what do I do? Dentist: Wear a brown tie... You don't have to brush all your teeth, just the ones...


Enough blue....
How nice of the sun to show it's face for my birthday - just the 4th time since I started posting! A cacophony of sayings rushed through...


Juxtaposition of travel
Having arrived back from a trip to Seoul on the weekend where I met old 'new' friends and some wonderful new people, stayed in a...


Loosen the reins....
.........easy to say, harder to do. Our son Ben, has a global developmental delay courtesy of Jacobsen's Syndrome. He turned 16 on New...


I am what I am.....
I meant to behave, but there were so many other options. I live in a world of fantasy, so please keep your reality away from me! My...


Clear the mind
'If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything. It is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities;...


"Sitting is the new cancer"
Or so opined Tim Cook, Apple CEO, when espousing the virtues of the smart watch at a pre-launch corporate event. What he meant to say was...


"Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it."
.............. Let’s do it, let’s fall in love." Cole Porter wrote the original in 1928 and it has since been covered by some of the...


Neo-Luddism - what was I thinking?
I remember saying to Catherine in 1993,,my now wife my then partner, 'computers leave me stone cold, I will never use one'. Today I had...


Will this be China's millennium?
Contemplating the age of my oak as I wandered past, drew my mind to the ancient civilisation that is China and its seemingly miraculous...










































