Watching Comic Relief - the first question always is "what''s the telephone number?" and the second is "exactly who is in charge of Kenya that allows this pitiful life for its citizens"?" Oh its President Kibaki who made the following speech in December 2010: "On the economic front, we have closed … [Read more...]
Asperger Syndrome – follow the exception
Asperger Syndrome (AS) is sometimes called 'mild autism' but there is nothing mild about being a teenager who finds it nigh on impossible to get things right with his peergroup. People with AS are at their most vulnerable at a time when the people they go to school with are at their least sensitive. … [Read more...]
It’s What’s Right With You That Will Fix What’s Wrong With You
I revisited this article that I wrote in 2008 and only had to take a few words out. If there are any Mental Health Unit staff out there who read this and think "what nonsense, she is out of date on this"! - please contact me and I will gladly edit each and every time. Eileen It's what's right … [Read more...]
And Jeannette and Beatrice at the Eat & Drink Company….
Back on the motorway last week which means living in a world of Service Station pitstops once more. Following my "Salute to Harry" post, I thought that would be the end of my hailing of Customer Service Heroes but then up popped Jeanette and Beatrice of the Eat & Drink Company at Birmingham … [Read more...]
A salute to Harry, Le Petit Four Cafe
Whether I am working with local authorities or the commercial world, I never forget that regardless of the official Mission Statement or whatever the guidelines recommend or whatever is laid down as good practice - it all stands or falls on people. No matter how committed a local authority is to … [Read more...]
If all else fails….tickle the foot
I thought I was hearing things this morning, I was multi-tasking so I first of all thought that the radio had somehow combined with a tape of audio book I was listening to but this is what I heard: "A 69 year old woman, pronounced dead by doctors and given the last rites, was tickled by a male nurse … [Read more...]
Down with this sort of thing!
It is not because I am Irish......well maybe it is but politics aside, I was proud to see a middle aged man standing amongst the 50,000 odd crowd in Dublin this week protesting with a solitary banner "Down with this sort of thing!". I can't think of a greater tribute to writers, Graham Linehan and … [Read more...]
Depressed? Your GP will tell you apparently
You know how sometimes you are just sitting there reading the paper and you read something that makes you sigh, well i had one of those this morning reading last Sunday's Observer (the only way I can get through the pile of Sunday papers I take is to eke them out through the week).It was just one … [Read more...]
Gok Wan
I am certain that Gok Wan, the presenter of "How to look good naked" is a very warm, compassionate man and I like his public personna very much but I do wish he would stop with the "psycho babble" when he is trying to help the women on his show to feel better about themselves. … [Read more...]
Tony Curtis
I'm not usually a person who cries when famous people who I do not know, die (well okay, apart from John Wayne and Elvis) but I couldn't help feeling saddened to hear of the death of Tony Curtis today. I remember watching him some years ago when he appeared on Clive Anderson's Chat show. … [Read more...]
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