by Deborah Marshall-Warren | Sep 15, 2014 | General
Honesty is the best policy. Right? Hands up readers, and those on their mobiles at the back!! Honesty is the best policy. Right and right-on! A long, long time ago I was sitting at the kitchen table waxing lyrical with my Lithuanian cleaner Emilija and was heading...
by wp-site11 | Aug 8, 2014 | General
How about sleeping on it? Very likely some well meaning and wise friend has said to you “Sleep on it and you find it clearer in the morning.” It is practical wisdom that has become part and parcel of our collective unconsciousness. And yet, have you...
by wp-site11 | Jun 19, 2014 | General
Do you ever remember your Bohemian self? The Bohemian in me stepped back in time to a beach called Bangrak where once upon a time I escaped to recover from a broken heart. I had booked my flight to Thailand for a date coinciding with the end of a work contract with...
by wp-site11 | Jun 15, 2014 | General
I doubt you were thinking what I was thinking! I am sitting at dinner. One of our group begins to speak about an exercise class called Fitball, expressing interest in who may be joining. My mind makes a remarkable sprint to catch the word “ball”, and all that the...
by wp-site11 | Jun 12, 2014 | General
Are you thinking what the red-beret-wearing men were thinking? How could you or I possibly be thinking what those men last week were thinking? Our blog-reading generation can only relate to what we may have read, history text books perhaps and the odd movie or two....
by wp-site11 | Feb 27, 2014 | General
Was this a Giraffe Gaffe? Giraffes do not figure as the central characters in any public holidays, like Easter bunnies do, but they most certainly figure as a treat to see and watch in a zoo. Of course they are even more exciting and gallantly graceful in the wild,...