Sorry
I’ve been thinking a lot about the word “sorry” recently – and not in that terribly English way of apologising to people as we stumble past them to get to our seats in the theatre. Frankly, after that...
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Editorial - Wellbeing
The Importance of Failure and Learning to Embrace Adversity
It’s strange how one of the most powerful life lessons is so steeped in pejorative language. To fail: an experience that is vital for growing and learning but which we are educated to believe is...
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Find Your Perfect Yoga Holiday
Most of us go on holiday to relax, revive, unwind. Flopping into a beach with a pile of blockbusters and a piña colada can do that for some people. Others find walking the streets of bustl...
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What Not to Say
Words are powerful. We should not be careless with them; yet we fling them around like so much confetti. My darling dad died last week. I am in pieces but my heart is broken into yet more fragments ev...
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Being Neat
I have been having a good clear out – although I have to confess that one corner of my bedroom is still a mess of old clothes waiting to be bundled up and taken to the charity shop.Oh, well, at least...
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Summer Feet
While not exactly a foot fetishist, I admit it: I am foot-obsessed. Long convinced that happy feet truly make a happy woman, my feet are unusual in that they are probably as smooth and perfectly-...
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