Head on over to the link if you have been thinking about making a change in your life for a while but haven’t quite managed to do it yet. Although the article is more about energy saving, and how to be good at it, which is very important of course, I couldn’t help but think of how important it is to stay in contact with friends, too, and how making a change and writing to someone you haven’t seen for (more…)

For a great number of years English people have been complaining – along with the rest of the world – that losing weight is far too difficult to do. But here’s the thing: even though many companies now offer free gym membership to employees, in the hope that they can make their work-force appear vaguely presentable and energized, many people are still complaining about it!

But alas, complaining with the same tired excuses may soon be a thing of the (more…)

We have a dog and until today, when I saw a documentary about dogs (following a nasty one about acne laser treatment, I would advise steering clear if I were you…), I didn’t know what kind of hell he went through day in, day out. Now I know I can’t help but feel extremely sad for Bertie. How confused he must be, poor Bertie! From now on I will do my best not to make high-pitched noises that sound like birds.

For one thing, bitches on heat must be torture for him. According to the expert on TV – a world-renowned expert in bitches on heat – Bertie and his doggy-man friends can sense bitches on heat from miles away. I’m not sure how true that statement is, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it was 100% no word of a lie: often, at night, when the world is settling down, Bertie looks out the window with an expression of utter desperation. As if to say “This is so unfair.”

But what can you do?

Another thing which the documentary brought to light was the point that dogs sense things so extremely. They hear things from miles away as loud as we would a megaphone in the ear, and they smell things…glorious fried bacon and the like…and get hit with an intensity a hundred times more powerful than if we snorted bacon for three hours on the trot.

I used to think I would like to come back as a dog. Now I’m not so sure…

I had a text message from a friend recently asking me whether I thought she ought to head down to a clinic in London to get a mastopexy. I must admit that I was fairly sure that this was some sort of fertility treatment, and I had to have a quick google to find out exactly what it was. And I was entirely wrong. A mastopexy is a breast uplift treatment.
Now I’m definitely someone who thinks that everyone is (more…)

Hair loss medication . Toilet cleaner. And the list goes on. It doesn’t matter what product or service is being sold, some of these advertisements are SO rubbish! Does anyone else think that some of the adverts on UK TV are atrocious and a total waste of air time and money or is it just me? I give you the Go Compare adverts for a fine example–the ones with that annoying fake opera man on…how annoying are they out of (more…)

I had to use the catchphrase of a very well known search engine provider in the title because that really is the case. I have seen quite a few adverts where the search engine Bing has shown the overload of information in our human minds. I didn’t think much about the advert, but I did think about how easy it is to get information that we need.

fifteen years ago, you could never find the information that you needed as (more…)

It is a lovely Saturday and I have just returned home for an excellent (albeit short) excursion to Tate London where I have spent the majority of the day looking at great works of art from years past, stepping back in time and catching glimpses of what life must have been like in those days. And it got me thinking about all the great things that we have from the past that we can learn from and infer what our (more…)

This post is about depression. There, I said it. I aim it not to be depressing, of course, but if it is a little then I apologize in advance.

Yeah, I know, you sure got lucky stumbling over this article didn’t you!

So the thing is this, and it’s only my opinion:

Everyone gets sad, but sometimes I think there should be more awareness of what depression is, because (and this may not be the case with everyone but certainly (more…)

I was just on Facebook. By “just on” I don’t mean I was just telling the world about my new fridge and the precise temperature it manages to maintain and how amazing it is and how everyone should know it because, well, who wouldn’t want to know that? No, I mean I was just on it looking about and checking my messages, seeing what my friend Adam had to say about his brand new Gastric band and all that (more…)

Before I had Laser Tattoo removal on a really ugly tattoo I got on a stag do, back when I was younger, I used to be able to lie down, pull my feet and legs back and spring up like a ninja, straight in to a standing position. I’m not even lying! This is not like one of those stories you tell when you have drunk six pints and can’t tell what is real and what is fake: I really (more…)