Did we start working harder then invent machines to make that easier to do, or did we invent machines then decide to spend the extra time working? I put the robovac upstairs and pressed the button, closed the door on the dishwasher and pressed the button, closed the door on the washing machine and pressed the button. When I came…
Euphoric is the only way to describe how I feel when I am travelling in Italy. Have you ever seen a dog hanging it’s head out of a car window into the wind? That dog looks as though it is the happiest it has ever been in its whole doggy life. That is how I feel when I’m travelling in…
There is a bath in this accommodation we booked for a week in the hills behind La Spezia, Italy. This is a bath in which you can do yoga moves, not because you want to but because it is a necessity to get into/sit in/shower in or bathe in. You can sit in this bath with your back against the…
I took off my jeans today without undoing the button, or unzipping the zip. I did it really without thinking. Those jeans were, if not too tight, then certainly tight enough to be a little uncomfortable three and a half weeks ago. Bits of me that should not be exposed to the naked eye were squeezed over the top of…
Getting skinny – it’s a billion trillion quadrillion dollar industry the world over. Our lifestyles are not making us fit or healthy they are making us fat. Routines and boredom, lack of time and stress, low self-esteem and unhappiness, the sheer abundance of junk food and hormones (oh those hormones) all conspire to make us fat. Our lives make us…
I need to be saved from my life. It sucks. It absolutely, spectacularly sucks. Well, okay, being a natural pessimist prone to exaggeration, maybe it doesn’t all absolutely suck. It seems that only the most important part of my life sucks. The part where I am supposed to be enjoying myself. Don’t get me wrong, I’m reasonably fit and healthy even…
I had an epiphany. It was like a shot of adrenalin to the heart. Life was passing me by. To be exact, MY life was passing me by. I have a sense of time being short and life being fleeting. We have had a period where too many people we know, people not much older than ourselves, have battled the…