Not your usual letter to Father Christmas I know and if my family happens to read this it’s not what I really want (hints will be dropped) but a pencil, some paper, a penknife and a whistle or all item on a list that the British Red Cross is recommending as part of a winter [...]
Match Day Nerves Or Are They Something Worse!
Being a long standing Arsenal supporter I tend to get a bit twitchy come match days but hey so do thousands of other football fans, so what’s to worry about, certainly not a crisis you would think. But could those nerves be just the tip of an iceberg when it comes to what is really [...]
Simon and His Cat Are Here – Christmas Has Started
Don’t you just love these festive offerings from Simon and his cat. I wonder what the name of his cat is. Technorati Tags: simon’s cat, video
How Being Grumpy Can Be Creative
Those of you who are regular readers of my posts will know well enough that I am a positive and upbeat type of guy. However like everyone here I do have my grumpy moments, I know it’s hard for you to believe but I do; in fact most Friday evenings I have a deliberate grump! [...]
Did My Nursing Career Train Me To Not Smell?
It was with some interest that I read on the BBC website this morning about a ‘smell’ study. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15770361 The sense of smell can be improved through training, a study on rats suggests. The study, published in Nature Neuroscience, also suggests if we do not use our sense of smell, we begin to lose it. [...]
Is Zero-Gravity Yoga The Universal Law Sir Isaac Newton Missed?
Newton as I’m sure you all know discovered and wrote the Universal Law of Gravity which explains why we don’t fall off the earth and the planets stay in orbit, but what he didn’t explain was that by defying gravity we will become fitter and find a whole new feeling of wellbeing. Well, according to [...]
Food For Thought – Think Yourself Thin
Yes you can Think Yourself Thin – but the people that matter do not seem to know it. A news item on the BBC Newsbeat website caught my eye today and quite literally gave me some food for thought. It stated that according to figures they had seen that the number of under 25 year [...]
Stopping Smoking – Women Take Note!
Staying on the topic of stopping smoking I want to continue the subject by going back to the article I mentioned in my post ‘Dr Mark Porter Blowing A Smokescreen Over How To Stop Smoking.’ In it he makes the point that women may be more susceptible to the damaging effects of cigarette smoke than [...]
Doctor Mark Porter Blowing a Smokescreen Over How To Stop Smoking
I was reading a recent article in the ‘Times’ regarding women’s health problems called ‘How to stub out the habit’ by Dr Mark Porter, which in itself was informative and helpful to those wanting to quit smoking. But what got my juices flowing was that the article blew a smokescreen over the real reason why [...]
Gunners Or Goners?
Anyone that knows me personally will be aware that I am a Gunners fan (an Arsenal supporter aka Gooner for those of you uninitiated in the finer points of football) and their 8 – 2 defeat by Manchester United was the lowest point of my weekend. Of course I received the usual reminders from friends, [...]
Ezine Articles – Important Changes That Could Affect You
One of the best sources of quality targeted traffic is Ezine Articles and getting your articles accepted there is certainly a great long term traffic strategy. The reason is that Ezine Articles do monitor the quality of what is on their site. This morning I received an e-mail from them with some new quite stringent [...]
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