Why am I alive? A mother woke up, climbed out of her bed and then woke her child. Calmly she dressed and cleaned both herself and the child. She was in her early thirties. The child was just two years of age. Both were fit and healthy. As a family, they were all happy. Yet…

In 2010 I made a conscious decision to self-isolate. Of course, this was before it became an enforced trend it was called ‘getting away from everything’ (now self-isolation) I had passed through a very personal storm. That storm started with a brutal divorce and concluded with an end-all bankruptcy. It was also horrible a million…

A Gift from CoronaVirus – Gift of Time Stop, rest and enjoy the gift of time. We have been handed a gift from the coronavirus. That gift is time. Time we do not usually have. This Christmas went I gave someone I love a gift. They told me later in a text they didn’t like…

CORONAVIRUS has created what can be described by some as strange times. It’s interesting to observe. The health and the life of each individual should always come first. Please look after yourself. But it is worth saying. Although we don’t know enough about this new strain of coronavirus we do know that the effect on…

Caroline Flack Dead. Caroline Flack RIP. What a sickening shame. Another death in a fake world reality that was never real. A fabrication and stimulation of the most basic of human emotions but with no possible lasting depth. She was the victim. Manipulated the thoughts of men in offices to dare to deliver more from…

Clive James 1939 – 2019 I am not a fan of critics. They create and do nothing apart from criticising. They really don’t mean that much to me. Clive James was a very different critic. He was a creator and criticised that that should be criticised in a way I hadn’t seen until I watched…

The Power of Saying Thank You In the coffee shop, I hold open the door for a man and woman. Both walked in past me, through the door and said nothing. In a building close-by I pressed the elevator to arrive. I politely allowed a woman to walk in before me. She said nothing. Someone…

Some days… I feel like doing nothing. Today is one of those days so I will do nothing or at least it LOOKS like I’m doing nothing. Yet, I believe that doing nothing can give me everything. I also believe doing too much can lose me everything. Let me explain. You might not know this…

The Possible Impossible I will say this about my wife, not only is she the best thing that ever happened to me she has an incredible future vision. When we first met way back in 2009 and I had invited her for dinner she asked me if I would like more children (as I have…

Tbilisi is a city that engages, arouses, shares and reveals many secrets. It is also a city and country that has been through huge identity change. Last summer, my wife and myself left our restored Tbilisi house in the morning to go for a coffee. We walked across our large ‘Ezo’ or yard and then…

Mike Thalassitis was a young guy like most young guys that wanted a good life. Maybe the problem was his good life was built around the visions of those that design good lives based on sales of their TV show? Maybe his vision and dream had been impregnated by the sights of what others had…

At midnight on any New Year, my parents would always cry out, happy new year and then they would open our rusting steel framed windows to let the old spirit of the year out and the allow new spirit in. I can remember standing there looking for something that would be leaving and entering. I…

I started 2018 with a theme and that theme was to simply, strip back and be more INTUITIVE in my life. It’s been a pretty amazing year I have to say. I stripped a lot of my life back and decided to ask myself more questions. One of my biggest questions was, Am I happy…

It’s 3:17 pm on a cold Friday in England. As I approach the school hundreds of children dressed in black flood out from the old school gates supported by the two huge old stone pillars. It looks like a mass of ants on the march as they all move in on mass in one direction…

This will be my last Monday in Tbilisi for a while. Almost five months to the day we arrived here. Almost five months to the day we go home as three with our new baby installed and downloading! A lot of you asked how can I stay over here for five months? The answer is…

The Life Continuum Life isn’t like that. Life isn’t what you expect it to be and rarely becomes what you are told it’ll become. I am going to be an old dad or a dad again over the age of fifty. I love the idea. I learnt this. I sometimes learnt this the hard way.…

The Penny In the 90s a woman prayed to God for a money. She had none. She couldn’t feed her children. She couldn’t pay for anything. In fact, she prayed just for a penny because a penny is better than nothing. After her prayer, she stood up in tears and walked out of her cold,…

Is always reconciliation possible? My father’s father left home when my own father was a baby. Never once in almost 20-years did he see tor have any contact with his father. One day in a working man’s pub in Edinburgh a man that knew my father shouted for him to come over. The man was…

Life Is Never Lost December 25th, 2009 I woke up in the tiniest room of the tiniest house I had ever lived in. The house built from handcrafted red clay brick was around 200 plus years old. Many a person had travelled through each room before I had arrived. Before me, I imagined the previous…