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”
Category Archives: Relationships
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”
Chapter 18
Brownies. It had been over a week since Peter had surrendered. He was starting to understand how serious it could be to overdo things, yet there was still a naughty spirit within him which made him want to push that little bit further. He knew his friends, and Hanny, were a little fed up withContinue reading “Chapter 18”
Chapter 17
Bored in Both and Fanovabba. The departure from Both was now delayed. Peter lay in a small bed in one of the backrooms in the house of His Senses. He idled in a lovely bed, flitting in and out of consciousness. He dreamt that Hanny was in attendance. He dreamt that the King of theContinue reading “Chapter 17”
Chapter 16
Trouble, trouble, trouble all the time. The quartet were almost devastated. It wasn’t that they had lost the sense of being a quintet along with all of the possible melodic sequences that allowed, or the chance to do an impression of the Dave Clark Five. Take Five! It was the loss of Ena and allContinue reading “Chapter 16”
