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Have you seen the High Street lately? Every window has had a makeover. The confectionary shop is an explosion of heart shaped chocolates. The book store has replaced all the celebrity autobiographies with love poetry. The supermarket has an entire aisle dedicated to edible love tokens, pink champagne and recipes for romantic dinners. And don’t get […]

There’s a wonderful bit in the last episode of SHERLOCK where Holmes and Watson get completely off their faces on a stag night, and end up playing the Rizzla game. This isn’t the Sherlock we know and love and some fans are slightly miffed by this change of direction. We like our sociopaths to be […]

  Van Morrison had a reputation for being a bully. I suppose these days you’d call it being a badass but it being 1979 the term hadn’t been coined yet. A badass commands a certain amount of respect whereas a bully just engenders fear. I am in the lobby of a hotel in Amsterdam where […]

Halloween – the amuse bouche of the holiday season is upon us. Shop windows have been transformed (Orange and black is the new black). Funny things are appearing on restaurant menus… well, just the same things with silly names… skeleton bones, bat wings, creepy crawly pasta. Spiders and cobwebs have become THE THING, suddenly adorning […]

If life is a Rom Com – and at times I like to indulge in this fantasy – then right about now would be the chapter where everything turns to shit. Of course, though we’re totally engaged in the drama, we know this is just a temporary state of affairs. Some amazing twist will happen […]

Just when you thought we’d run out of ways to ridicule Gen Y kids, along comes another article with a new acronym to boot.  They’re GYPSYS… Gen Y Protagonists or Special Yuppies.  This means they’re the main character in a VERY special story of their own life. Having been brought up with the Good Book […]

Oh to be in the desert this week for Burning Man   An epic adventure of Alice in Wonderland proportions. Giant structures. A kaleidescope of colour. Creative anarchy. A  tribal gathering of people committed to a different way of life – one filled with spontaneity,  self-expression and fun. One unrestricted by the conventions of the 9-5. No […]

“It’s not the despair, I can take the despair. It’s the hope I can’t stand.” This blog was written in response to Katie Brennan’s brilliantly colourful piece on the trials and tribulations of an actor’s life. The thing is, in many ways life was easier back in the day – when everything was black and […]

My neighbour asked about the creativity course.  “Oh” she said, her brow furrowing “I thought it would involve things like decorating cupcakes”. A popular misconception about creativity is that it’s something you do in your spare time as a hobby, or after you have retired from ‘real work’. There are two things wrong with this. […]

If creativity is the answer, what’s the question? There are quite a few really. But here’s a top ten… How can I solve problems at work? How can I find the way forward? How can I beat insurmountable odds? How can I stop an addiction? How can I heal loss? How can I live a […]