People prefer absolutes in life, of course. Binary decisions and outcomes. But life is often more complex than this and it is becoming ever more so. Who crossed the finishing line first? This is fine measuring the fastest sprinter on earth but less satisfactory when the finishing line happens to be in an election as […]
How many kids grow up to do for a living what they dreamt of? Not many, I’d say. Certainly not the ones who planned on being astronauts. Like most little boys, I had fleeting aspirations of being a football player and to play for En-ger-land. I wasn’t a very clever child and yet I quickly […]
It is better to give than to receive! A well known phrase and one that chimes with me. To be able to make someone happy, or to cheer someone up is a wonderful thing to experience. And especially so when giving someone a gift which is unexpected and outside the norm of Christmas, birthday… An […]
