Reading time: 3 mins I like to think I’m pretty helpful. It’s nice to be nice and all that, and I enjoy the connection it makes, even if it’s only for a fleeting moment; holding a door open and receiving a smile, helping push a broken down car, chasing after someone to give them their dropped glove. If you…
Reading time: 3 mins 16 years is a long time and I’ll admit I’ve been looking back at the history of this blog, reading old posts and finding that it’s a fairly accurate depiction of my own journey. Obvious, I know, but given that there is so much I don’t write about, the blog posts I have published act…
Reading time: 3 mins My home town of Dumbarton sits on the River Leven, the second fastest flowing river in Scotland, don’t ya know. The Leven is the main outlet from Loch Lomond and flows from the Loch down the valley, through my home town where it joins the mighty River Clyde. The Clyde dominates the history and culture…
Reading time: < 1 min I, I will be king And you, you will be queen Though nothing will drive them away We can beat them, just for one day We can be Heroes, just for one day David Bowie – Heroes I don’t think I’ve ever really looked at one person and identified them as a hero. But I…
Reading time: 2 mins Never settle. Always push for more. Strive to be better. Why is it that the older I get the more these clichéd phrases seem to resonate? When did my life become the subject of motivational posters? Perhaps I’m realising that life is actually quite simple, and that no matter how I try to bend things…
Reading time: 3 mins I stumbled across an old post of mine the other day – one of those weird moments when you google something and your own site comes up – which discussed the idea that some of the basics of a profession were a given. They could, and should, rightfully be presumed. It made me realise I…