HELLO, 2022! WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU!!! Without further ado, the YE 2021 Annual Reflection has arrived. The links to download it are below. There are now two versions available to use: First, the glossy PDF version which you are welcome to print and scribble all over. An approach, I rather like. Secondly, and for […]
Please take a few minutes to watch this Nature and Mental Health video. UK Mental Health Awareness Week, 10-16 May 2021 We all have mental health and it can be easily forgotten until we feel the adverse effects. This year, UK Mental Health Awareness Week 2021, is focussing on nature as a way to help […]
We’ve all been marked and stretched by the events of 2020. I feel that it would be better if we didn’t rush to live as we did before. It won’t fit and it will feel strange if we do. Covid-19 and 2020 are more than a once in a lifetime wake up call. I’d really […]
Annual Reflection | The Year That Was 2020 2020, the year of challenges (understatement!) that was met and outshone by a fundamental re-establishment of personal needs and acts of humanity and connectedness. At times, the world of 2020 felt dystopian, unsettled, yet never clearer. So this really is an opportunity to reflect upon what it has taken […]
When lockdown happened in March, and we were only allowed to go outside to exercise or shop, I turned to my bicycle to combine both. I liked owning a bike but it was in the garage 99% of the time. I was a fair-weather cyclist. Why? Because it was too far to commute, busy […]
TIME FOR REFLECTION AS WE EMERGE FROM COVID-19 It is 100 days since lockdown began and we are heading into July 2020. The world is emerging from Covid-19 ever-so cautiously (I hope) and oh-so changed. Since March the virus and the reality of living through lockdown have challenged every aspect of our lives. It […]
This year spring-time reflection and new beginnings feel so poignant. During this time of Covid induced distancing we may have an extraordinary opportunity to commemorate and reflect. We could be in a new defining era. Defining a new and better normal. Let’s hope so. Sending much love. RELATED COVID-19 | 100 Days Later | Time […]
Here is an excellently delivered, enjoyable and informative 12 min TEDTalk . Even during lockdown we are being encouraged to exercise. Why is this talk so good? Because even a renowned neuroscientist only learnt the difference taking exercise makes when she went through the experience herself. Knowing the data was fine. Walking the talk made all […]
Richard Baldwin is Professor of International Economics at The Graduate Institute, Geneva. In this 10 minute Pocket Lecture he will explain better than anyone the epidemiological curve of coronavirus and why the economic shock will last longer than the pandemic. One of the best illustrations of how economics maps and models human behaviours at both the […]
Things didn’t change over a year, month or a week. Despite international news coverage of Covid-19, everything changed in a day. It’s now week 2 of self-isolation which has evolved into a lockdown (in all but name). We can only leave our homes for 1 hour of exercise or shopping. My 1 hour of state […]