Category Archives: Relationships

Journaling to Help with Stress

Stress affects almost everyone at some time in their lives. For some people, it’s more of a problem with their genetics and for some, it’s due to their situation. Whatever reason you are stressed, congratulations for recognizing it and wanting to do something about it. Here are some good ways to journal to combat yourContinue reading “Journaling to Help with Stress”

How to Get Started Writing a Journal

Go to any shop and buy a notebook! I love to write with a fountain pen – maybe a reflection on my generation. Getting started journaling isn’t something that you need to think about too hard. Yes, there are numerous types and styles of journals and ways to do this that may or may notContinue reading “How to Get Started Writing a Journal”

How Journaling Can Help with Mental Health Issues

This is an unusual post, and yet I think it is useful. When I reflect on my own journals they help me put events into perspective, and sometimes looking back on a traumatic event can actually turn out to be quite amusing. When I look back at the diary I kept when I was workingContinue reading “How Journaling Can Help with Mental Health Issues”

Are you a writer? Do you keep a journal?

I am currently writing about my life here in Oman, and the challenges of working in an International School full of ignorant people – and I don’t mean the students!!! What types of journals should we keep? I end to keep as a sort of diary with reflections from the past. When I find somethingContinue reading “Are you a writer? Do you keep a journal?”

Other thoughts on Creativity

How Multitasking Hurts Your Concentration Have a lot on your plate to get done for the day? It might seem easier to get it all done if you multitask. But the truth is, multitasking hurts your concentration big time. Read on to find out just how bad it is to multitask when trying to concentrateContinue reading “Other thoughts on Creativity”

School blog – Intro

So the UK didn’t quite work out how I expected. Coming home? Home is where the heart is, so they say. Clearly my home is no longer Liverpool. I suppose realistically I left that ‘home’ at 19 when I went off to the Polytechnic. A new life, a new world, a new set of people;Continue reading “School blog – Intro”

The Adventures of Fairy Hanny

If you’re enjoying these clips in my blog why not buy the books? First Adventure is “Strange Things from Uranus” I just checked and I have well over one thousand followers for my blogs, and over one thousand ‘friends’ on LinkedIn. I am sure that means there is a good market out there just dyingContinue reading “The Adventures of Fairy Hanny”

Chapter n + 1

More talking “So there must be lots of these Spyders by now,” said Steve. “I heard that Spyders breed like rabbits!” “That can’t possibly be true,” said Greg. “Rabbits are mammals so therefore the young are carried internally by the mother until birth. They then have to be weaned and fed milk from the mammaryContinue reading “Chapter n + 1”

Chapter 20

A far-out night in Far – That what must it be! Escape from Wails was complete. It was clear to Peter that Both contained some painful memories for Hanny; she had denied him amongst her oldest friends. He knew at this point in the narrative that he was madly in love with that fairy ofContinue reading “Chapter 20”