Choosing a Diary……what’s the secret?
“Buy diary” it said on my to-do list. Such a simple-sounding task, right? Wrong. My local stationery store dedicated one side of a long aisle to the mysterious process of diary-selection. As I arrived to tackle this task, there was already one other young woman looking confused and tired in her quest for the perfect […]
Got a Minute to Lose?
As I left my mechanic’s workshop at 8.15am having dropped off my car for a service, I walked calmly across the driveway of the adjacent service station, wondering what I’d do next – sit at the local coffee shop and wait, or hike back up the hill to my house nearby. Suddenly, I felt a […]
Conversations – are we losing touch with our real world?
As I took the bus to the city last week, I saw three groups of elderly women chatting happily to each other. Even though I was standing in the crowded bus, I was amused by them – smiling, laughing, regaling and just doing what comes naturally to women and, more specifically, people over the […]