This week on the Wake Up/Wind Down podcast, Niall Breslin has been talking about things that make you laugh, because it's good to laugh, it's important to keep a sense of play in your life. And he admits that one of the things that makes him laugh the most is when people get phrases wrong.… Continue reading Escape Goat (47.2021)
Month: November 2021
Too early, too loud, too kind, too many (46.2021)
The C Word It's still November but here in the UK attention seems to have turned to Christmas already. The radio is full of ads advising us to shop and shop and shop and buy more food and maybe buy new furniture and generally buy your way into celebrating the Festive Season. There's even a… Continue reading Too early, too loud, too kind, too many (46.2021)
Sad, unhappy and disappointed (45.2021)
I heard some upsetting news this week. I heard that someone I knew had died. It was her birthday and her daughter posted a message on Facebook saying her mother had passed and she would carry her forever in her heart. It was a shock, because I knew this woman as someone so engaged in… Continue reading Sad, unhappy and disappointed (45.2021)
It’s all about the climate (44.2021)
The 26th UN Committee on Climate Change (COP26) is going on in Glasgow right now. The planet is at a crisis point, and we all need this meeting to deliver something tangible in terms of pledges on reduction of emissions, re-greening the planet, commitments to invest in green energy and cut funding to polluting energies… Continue reading It’s all about the climate (44.2021)

