Monthly Archive: February 2014

Rain, rain, go away

I’ve been singing this rhyme in the back of my mind for too many days now and finally it happened, a full day of sunshine.  I gloried in it as I sat in the window seat at Caffe Nero this morning, alternating between reading, Sudoko and watching the world go...

The simple life

Life seems to be too complicated now, when I was a kid life was simple, no bills to pay, house to maintain, computers to backup, food to buy and prepare, retirement to plan for.  Then as I got older complexity gradually seeped into my life, I acquired more stuff, more...

More than meditation

In this morning eclectic mix of reading was a post from Tony Schwartz one of my favourite authors talking about the realities of meditation, he opens with this statement of fact: Here’s the promise: Meditation – and mindfulness meditation, in particular – will reduce your cortisol level, blood pressure, social anxiety and...

Never too old for Disney

Amazingly we had sunshine this morning and I woke nice and early, so early in fact that Debbie was still in bed which is a rare treat.  When I wake early the only cafe open is Caffe Nero so I headed there for an hours reading and then went for...