There's a bit of bad news personally, but what I'm referring to in the subject is all the bad news all around us at the moment ( Read more... )

So, I tried very Very hard to summon all the enthusiasim I could before the start of the new year at work, want to make a difference, want to be positive, and its working, kind of. I've just felt so damm tired this week, which probably has a lot to do with waking up, having to wake up early and drive to work ( Read more... )

In the car last night travelling back from Uni ( Read more... )

Driving to work today, a trip of about sixty miles, I looked out of the side window as I sailed past a small town. It was dark and as the car moved forward I could see the rows and rows of orange lamp posts, describing the streets. I wondered about the good folk who live in the houses in the streets, about their daily routine, thinking they were ( Read more... )

2.30 woken up by partner pulling covers away from me, like some absurd Laural and Hardy sketch where they are both sharing a bed with a sheet the size of a small hankie. Wide awake I hold up the small amount of the cover I actually have in my hands covering my form in bed, about a foot, and remark that "this is all that I have". I'm told that I'm ( Read more... )

I was driving along, listing to a CD made years ago, not thinking of anything in particular, admiring the cold green fields of middle England, dodging the sun rising ubove the horizon which at times shined in my eyes making marks and shapes even when they were closed. Then Bang, it must have been a line in a song, a musical key which reaches into ( Read more... )

Friday night and it was Graham’s 50th and Sue’s 60th, (Graham’s is my SO's brother and Sue is the sister in law) birthday bash.

We gathered just before eight in a large function room in a social club, all bright and well decorated. There was a bar on one side and a stage on the other, in the middle tables and chairs and a dance floor. The band ( Read more... )

BBC 12th September 2008 - Bed sharing 'drains men's brains'

Sharing a bed with someone could temporarily reduce your brain power - at least if you are a man - Austrian scientists suggest.

When men spend the night with a bed mate their sleep is disturbed, whether they make love or not, and this impairs their mental ability the next day.

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Over the past couple of days I’ve been thinking about traumatic events and how we ‘Get over’ them. The fact that we reach a point where their importance becomes less significant in our lives and why.

To date, although all of the is probably blindingly obvious to most, it appears to be a function of memory. The more recent the event, the more ( Read more... )

I kept telling myself I could walk out at any time, which was supposed to make me feel in control, but didn’t. It was now three months since I broke my wisdom tooth, three months of waking up the old familiar dull ache in my jaw. And now, here I was sitting in the dentists waiting room. Not sure what to expect.

I looked around the room, all ( Read more... )