Time is hurling me towards my book deadline at the moment. And you’d have thought the pressure and importance of the whole thing would focus my mind, wouldn’t you? However, instead of writing, one rainy Saturday afternoon I find myself googling that song from the eighties by Owen Paul. Like you do. And on the […]
Do stop whingeing – it really doesn’t help
Hi, it’s Perpetual Pollyanna here again banging my tiny little drum on the subject of positive thinking. The week began with Boy One taking the huge leap of joining his primary seven classmates at the outdoor centre at Ardentinny. Exhaustive preparations ended with me dropping off a pale and over-excited 11-year-old off at school with […]
Finding positivity in the face of more exits than entrances
Generally, in both blogland and the real world, I try to adopt a position of merciless positivity. I am convinced there is a silver lining under every cloud even if it’s of the what-doesn’t-bust-you.. variety. Lately, though, we seem to have been surrounded by more cruel coincidences than seems right by anyone’s measure. I hasten […]