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Headphones-check. Towel – check. Water bottle-check.Gloves-check. Motivation –double check. The gym that I haven’t been for a long...

I have been back to work on and off for three weeks and on the first day back, I was like a child eager to start school.  I was able to...

Acquaintances come and go, friends, good friends stay for life. I have many good friends who I have known for a very long time. Although,...

From the middle of March, the little, big man has been learning from home. His school has been fantastic in sending a timetable of online...

My first day of getting up for work at 5.45am happened this week. After having nearly 4 months of no work, going to bed late, getting up...

On the 4th July, millions of people in this country will be celebrating Independence Day – not in solidarity with the United States of...

Now that the sun is blazing gloriously, it has given me an opportunity to do a lot of clearing out of the loft and my ‘organised mess'....

Happy Father’s Day on the 21st June, Father’s Day will be celebrated in many households around the country. Albeit, children will not be...

13 weeks or so into lockdown and I have redecorated nearly all the rooms in my home and watched far more television than I want to admit...

So much has happened around the world in the past few weeks and it is hard for me not to be affected by events that have happened in the...

Children are like flowers Children are like flowers Water them with love Nourish them with praise Give them a compliment Each and every...

With Mental Health Awareness Week taking place from 18th to 24th May, with the theme of kindness, the following poem is apt. It doesn’t...

During this period of lockdown, I have been keeping myself busy by doing the odd jobs that have been calling out to be done: repainting...

It's there in the cool hand placed on your fevered head, In the supportive words offered when you get the news that you dread. It’s in...

Normally around this time of year, people will be getting ready for an extended weekend due to the first May bank holiday. Due to VE...

For as long as I can remember I have always loved music; different genres but particularly soul and R and B. During my numerous walks...

Four weeks in for the UK being on lockdown and another three weeks are to be added, for now. Tens of thousands of people have sadly lost...

This Sunday, many people will be eating a special meal, maybe lamb and lots of people will be eating chocolate Easter eggs, below is a...

Thank you to all the medical professionals, support workers, key workers and other people who are doing their jobs, above and behind, to...

April the 1st, the day when pranksters get people to do things they wouldn’t normally do and to believe things they wouldn’t normally...