Caroline Flack Dead. Caroline Flack RIP. What a sickening shame. Another death in a fake world reality that was never real. A fabrication and stimulation of the most basic of human emotions but with no possible lasting depth. She was the victim. Manipulated the thoughts of men in offices to dare to deliver more from…

Clive James 1939 – 2019 I am not a fan of critics. They create and do nothing apart from criticising. They really don’t mean that much to me. Clive James was a very different critic. He was a creator and criticised that that should be criticised in a way I hadn’t seen until I watched…

The Power of Saying Thank You In the coffee shop, I hold open the door for a man and woman. Both walked in past me, through the door and said nothing. In a building close-by I pressed the elevator to arrive. I politely allowed a woman to walk in before me. She said nothing. Someone…

Some days… I feel like doing nothing. Today is one of those days so I will do nothing or at least it LOOKS like I’m doing nothing. Yet, I believe that doing nothing can give me everything. I also believe doing too much can lose me everything. Let me explain. You might not know this…

Tbilisi is a city that engages, arouses, shares and reveals many secrets. It is also a city and country that has been through huge identity change. Last summer, my wife and myself left our restored Tbilisi house in the morning to go for a coffee. We walked across our large ‘Ezo’ or yard and then…

Mike Thalassitis was a young guy like most young guys that wanted a good life. Maybe the problem was his good life was built around the visions of those that design good lives based on sales of their TV show? Maybe his vision and dream had been impregnated by the sights of what others had…

At midnight on any New Year, my parents would always cry out, happy new year and then they would open our rusting steel framed windows to let the old spirit of the year out and the allow new spirit in. I can remember standing there looking for something that would be leaving and entering. I…

I started 2018 with a theme and that theme was to simply, strip back and be more INTUITIVE in my life. It’s been a pretty amazing year I have to say. I stripped a lot of my life back and decided to ask myself more questions. One of my biggest questions was, Am I happy…

It’s 3:17 pm on a cold Friday in England. As I approach the school hundreds of children dressed in black flood out from the old school gates supported by the two huge old stone pillars. It looks like a mass of ants on the march as they all move in on mass in one direction…

This will be my last Monday in Tbilisi for a while. Almost five months to the day we arrived here. Almost five months to the day we go home as three with our new baby installed and downloading! A lot of you asked how can I stay over here for five months? The answer is…

Is always reconciliation possible? My father’s father left home when my own father was a baby. Never once in almost 20-years did he see tor have any contact with his father. One day in a working man’s pub in Edinburgh a man that knew my father shouted for him to come over. The man was…

Life Is Never Lost December 25th, 2009 I woke up in the tiniest room of the tiniest house I had ever lived in. The house built from handcrafted red clay brick was around 200 plus years old. Many a person had travelled through each room before I had arrived. Before me, I imagined the previous…

A Family Reshaped A happy life after divorce recovery. Yesterday I was reminded of something I now feel I might have been forgetting. Let me explain. Family can be your greatest friends. They can also become your worst enemies. Divorce forces a detachment from what was and creates a new blank screen that has to…

Altrincham – From Dead To Deliberate Recreation In 1984 I started working in a hairdressing salon called Cliche in a town named Altrincham. I hated it. The owner named Dean was from Paris and he was nuts. Not only did he walk with a limp, have a large bolt that was always visible through tight…

Donald Trump Loves Coal – Dirty Bastard! A true story! One thing that always stood out for me as a young child of around seven was this. We had just moved from Scotland to England. Dad was there before us as he had started a new job in the Prison services. We drive south, headed…

The Bully & The Regime When I first moved from Scotland to England I was bullied. Not for any other reason apart from I sounded different to the English kids. My parents thought it would be a good idea for me and my brother to go Ju-Jitsu. We did and not only did I claim…

What’s your human value? You passport determines your value as a human being. Let me explain. I watched a detailed documentary about migrants and refugees. They looked at the movement of people from a different angle and it made me think. First, the word migrant or migration. What and why? Think about it why do…

Observations Monday It’s Monday and it’s sunny thank God. After coffee, we walked over to the post office to send over a couple of parcels we sold on eBay. I admit we do sell a lot of stuff on eBay and why not. I have sold things minutes after posting on eBay. After coffee, we…

I’m drinking coffee more coffee and thinking… We woke up. The boiler is broke, the apartment is cold so it’s a coffee shop morning. Don’t get me wrong we do this everyday but today is two coffees rather than one because Thursday holds something for me I used to fight. It’s this. Thursday would always…

Notes from Italy & Beyond I mentioned some time ago I was doing an experiment. The experiment is called my deliberate recreation. The idea is to evaluate life and all things in life. Identify what doesn’t work in life and then make the changes that are needed. That doesn’t mean fixing things that can also…