Aging is an extraordinary process, where you become free to be the person you always should have been – David Bowie.
I swear that that last super full moon did some serious woo-woo on me. I’m sitting at my (organic, cruelty-free) hairdresser’s, flicking through a Womankind magazine, and thinking not-very-deep thoughts. Then, a sentence that I was to spend the remainder of my day having a existential experience over, jumped out at me. It hit me …
I am being gifted a sledge hammer by my sister. This is what sisters do for each other. Sis and her husband have a spare one, so she will pass one of them onto me, in the event I ever have to smash through the wooden floor of my older investment flat to rescue men …
She did a double-take, as she came out of her gate. No, she wasn’t seeing things. There they were. Alone and unoccupied, sitting neatly in the middle of the footpath. A pair of ordinary-looking men’s trainers, waiting for a pair of ordinary men’s feet to fill them and set off for the day’s adventures. Their …
Yes, you read that right. No, I don’t especially like paying them, but I like what we’d have without them even less. Decimating taxes is the death of civilisation. Without taxes, civilisation goes feral. We’d live in a world like that of drug cartels. Gosh, what fun that would be - for about 0.0001% of …
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Well, I’ve made it to sixty all in one pieceI’m humbled to be here, still at the feastIt was a messy journey getting this farHurdles and swamps and sticky tarMuch of it was of my own makingBut not always of my own creating Now, something within me has changedMy attitude to life is all rearrangedI …
The whites of his eyes gave it away. He saw fifty, and was afraid. Perhaps it wasn’t quite as dramatic as that, but Carl Honoré certainly got the wind up him when he saw his fiftieth birthday coming towards him. He knew, good hockey player even though he was, that he couldn’t out-manoeuvre this particular …
Let’s talk about sex. It’s always good for a laugh, once we get over taking it too seriously. And what better way to start off the year than with a bit of humour? If romantic dinners and scented candles are still your thing, then maybe you’re not there yet with the humour. You probably will …
