Tag: inspiring
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The Importance Of Companionship
I’ve just been listening to the Desert Island Discs podcast on BBC Radio 4 where 95-year old ex-Royal Navy test pilot Captain Eric Winkle-Brown was interviewed. Other than listening to an incredible man who lived through such key moments in history as attending the Berlin Olympics and taking part in the liberation of Belsen, he…
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The Tale Of The Supermarket Carol Singers
The Christmas Lights are being switched on in Granada tonight which will be fun to see and as the festive season approaches each year, I’m often reminded of a shopping trip to a supermarket in London a few years ago where I was greeted by two teenagers of about 15-16 years old who were belting out Christmas carols accapella…
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So What’s Next?
I started this blog in October, so at only a few weeks old of posting daily (including the transfer of a number of posts from a previous website I had) and since the end of the latest Blogging101 project, I thought I’d take stock of how things have gone. Firstly, I’d like to thank everybody who follows…
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How Your Phone Can Help You Know Where You’re Going
When did you last see someone walking down the street so engrossed in their phone that they either: – almost walked into you, somebody else or a lamppost? – actually walked into you, somebody else or a lamppost? The chances are that you have seen at least one of these things happen and probably not…
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What We Can Learn From Playing Tennis
While walking around recently, I noticed a boy of about 12 years old hitting a tennis ball against a wall with his tennis racket. Perhaps he was practising for a match or maybe he was just having fun. Either way, he didn’t have any friends around to impress so he was clearly motivated to do…
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The Scent Of Nostalgia
While walking around town recently, a woman walked past me and just as she went by, a waft of perfume struck me and suddenly I was at university in a conversation class with a French teaching assistant called Nathalie who wore the same perfume by Issey Miyake. Just like that. No introduction. The last thing…
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If You Were The Sun…
I can see why painters move to places for the beauty of the light. I can never take a photo nor paint a picture that seems to do it justice though it doesn’t stop me trying. We don’t have an Ibiza-style island sundowner place to hang out here in Granada, primarily because we’re not by the beach…
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Your Favourite Toy
I’ve just been chatting to a friend about her favourite toy when she was a child – her teddy bear. She’s now 28 and still has it on top of her wardrobe – kind of watching over her. Of course, she doesn’t need to play with it anymore (and even if she did, that would…
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Are You Comfortable Being Comfortable?
Are you sitting comfortably? How about with your life? Are you comfortable with your life? Maybe everything’s going well and that’s a lovely thing but sometimes, things are just ticking over in a perfectly fine but perhaps not very interesting way and from time to time, you think about stepping out of things for a…
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The Everydayness Of Beauty
On the way home from a bar with some friends last night, I took a photo of this fountain. I often walk past it but what with the moon, the lights and the water last night, it particularly caught my eye. We often get caught up in our everyday lives not noticing the everyday things that…
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Songs That Take You By Surprise
It’s the weekend, so a bit of music today – with a bit of a twist on perceptions of life of course… I’ve now been living in Spain for 10 months and as a music fan, I like listening to the radio though to be honest, most of the music on the radio is pretty…
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The Sky is Bigger
If you have ever lived in a big city, you know about the countless advantages of doing so. However, one of the downsides which was highlighted to me recently is that the sky can feel so small making city living enclosed and claustrophobic which inevitably has a negative impact on its inhabitants. Kitty Shepherd, a British friend…
I Am Away From The Noise 