MENTAL HEALTH

He is sitting at a pub bar, tapping out thoughts on his phone with his thumb – the measured, red blink of the break glass point on the wall, constantly monitoring for signs of smoke, of fire. +++ Remembering that

Italian earthquake Our hearts go out to the families and friends of the victims of the natural disaster in Italy. The earthquake, 6.2 on the Richter Scale, most affected the towns and villages of Amatrice, Arquata, Accumoli and Pescara del

Blog Friday 19th August 2016 Last Sunday we had a classy, Kew Gardens picnic, courtesy of Liz, with my daughter and friends, and visited The Hive, to empathise with all about bees. The gardens are such a magical place – beautiful

Pub A week without wine? Feel the ridges in the brickwork, the mortar, run your fingers over the sculpted contours of plaster by the fireplace. Rottingdean The tide has turned and is rising, fingering rock pools, lifting seaweed, animating crabs.

Postcard from Croatia Gostiona Milina. Beach. June. A tyre filled with concrete as the base for a bright, yellow and white parasol catching the onshore breeze. Butterflies of many different kinds flying in from the sea one by one, each

Since my time on the South Bank last week, I’ve been thinking – Why should a company bother to train employees in mental health, and mental health first aid in particular? There’s an excellent report and toolkit from Business in

Last week on 17th July, after the attempted coup on President Erdogan, the New Yorker published an article, written by Eric Schlosser, on H bombs in Turkey. The premise of the article was to ask ‘How secure are the American

On Friday morning, the alarm clock radio woke us to the horror of the night before – a lorry crashing through crowds in Nice – 84 dead, 50 critically injured, many of them children. The driver deliberately swerving to hit

Be seated. Balance. Right foot for support. Rotate the right hand sixty degrees, press with the right thumb, clench the left fist, flick down the left toes, twist the right wrist, release the left fist, twist the right wrist more,

07:30 the end of two minute’s silence in commemoration of the battle of the Somme, one hundred years ago today. Watching on silent TV in the waiting room of the fracture clinic at the hospital. Every ailment here quite evident:

Here’s a past article that majored on the cockroach!  

Check out page 8 for an article on Fast Train Approaching… after it’d just been published Send any comments on the page below Thanks Steve