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Keep your eyes on the prize. But look down every now and again to make sure you haven’t stepped in someone else’s mess. The prize is yours when you realise that there is a reward for every good act...

Lies are like the drugs

Lies are like the drugs of the real world, you get high without having to put something into your mouth. In fact the high comes from something coming out your mouth instead. Liars obviously get a ...

Who doesn’t have this dark desire to go back to at least one teacher to say

Who doesn’t have this dark desire to go back to at least one teacher to say, ‘sorry miss when you said I wouldn’t amount to anything with this attitude, you were um, wrong. Wow look at me now!’ W...

We are all survivors of the solar flare

We are all survivors of the solar flare. Something enormous happened in space last week that made absolutely no difference to anything anywhere. Hectic. Hope the kids are alright. Apologies. There...

Let’s drink a toast to my old iPod.

Let’s drink a toast to my old iPod. I found my music from 2012 in a random box. I cannot express the depths of emotion. Amy Winehouse had just gone for good and I remember thinking that lame song ...

Time to leverage opportunities

Time to leverage opportunities. By which I mean, time to plan no plan. I’m sorry to sound abstract about it, but a vacant head is a mind just waiting to be filled. I dream I’m at an airport. As a...

Chuck out the trash

The time has come to chuck out the trash. It’s like a heart transplant. Bad stuff out — good stuff in. The trouble has always been what to keep. I remember seeing Oprah’s show on decluttering w...

We don’t all live in a yellow submarine

Sadly, we don’t all live in a yellow submarine. It didn’t come as a huge shock when someone pointed it out, because life has this bad habit of letting one down. What it means, really, is that ther...

So we’ve swung into Spring

So we’ve swung into Spring with this expected combination of hot and cold, you could say schizophrenic weather but that’s not exactly what schizo means. But let’s look at combos that slowly dri...

Dreamt I was flying

Dreamt I was flying which is crazy because I usually dream I’m falling. Now I’m trying to figure out if there’s some significance in the fact that I made a concerted effort to defy gravity, which ...

I’m done with isms

I’m done with isms — that’s capitalism, communism, ageism, sexism, heightism, fatism, faddism, post-Impressionism and Popism even. The list goes on. And I intend to be a free spirit. People think...

Kidnapping has replaced credit card cloning

Kidnapping has replaced credit card cloning as the Number One thing to worry about instead of corruption, which replaced the pandemic, which replaced the production and cost of petrol. Getting ol...

Love has tentacles like an octopus

Love has tentacles like an octopus. And suckers for catching prey. The saying that you should free love to make its way back to you is an acknowledgment that lost love is an animal in the wildern...

Is it nature or nurture?

Is it nature or nurture that makes me wanna love you? I don’t think that desire is purely constructed out of what you see other people flashing, that brings about a basic jealousy for material wea...

Junk shops are mind spaces

Junk shops are mind spaces it’s no wonder the world has gone mad for thrifting. If someone told you Venice was really sinking wouldn’t you head down to St Mark’s Basilica for a couple of old candl...