Education Reforms and All That Jazz
A while ago I had great fun reading about the introduction of “baseline testing”, for primary school children in the UK. I have mixed feelings on both sides of the Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Life Stuff
De-hibernating, Hello Sunshine!
Ah, bliss! It is finally getting around to that time of year when I can wander outside without fear of frostbite, I can dry the laundry outside rather than it Continue Reading →
Review: The Woman in White
When I first began reading this classic I opted to ignore the foreword (or all three of them in this case). I don’t know how anyone feels about the inclusion Continue Reading →
Postal Blues and Belated Christmas Gifts
Cyprus postal blues are the bane of my immigrant existence. It is a fact that the postal service over here is diabolically awful. Today I received an invitation to a Continue Reading →
Merry Christmas or whichever mid-winter festival you celebrate
Merry Christmas! Be happy, be healthy and be kind to the people around you; they are the ones who love you the most. Remember those departed and remember them fondly. Continue Reading →
Future plans – The effects of past and present
What if the decisions you made yesterday affect your plans for tomorrow? If a choice you made to get to this point in your life affects the hopes and dreams Continue Reading →
Normality – It’s all in the imagination
“Normality is a figment of someone else’s imagination.” I heard this phrase many years ago. I was sitting in a flat with a couple of people, after a night out, Continue Reading →
Learning a new language, it’s all Greek to me.
I am learning a new language, and the language I have chosen, by circumstance and choice, is Greek. Why couldn’t I have stuck to the Latin/Roman alphabet? Starting my new Continue Reading →
Ambition and the Path to Success
I have the ambition, but I have frequently stumbled, wandered, and gotten distracted from the path to success. A teacher in my primary school planted the first seed of ambition Continue Reading →
Career Changes and Evolving Employment Cycles
Career changes can be so difficult when the requirements for roles evolve in constantly shifting employment cycles. At one point the requirements for a chosen position or career path might be Continue Reading →