Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
Mental Health – An Important Question For You
Many of my blogs are light hearted, bizarre or whatever; but NOT today. This is Important and I hope that you will stay with me for a couple of minutes while I am talking passionately about something I care about. In fact we should all care about this as one in four of us will […]
Tattoo Inspiration For Golf Win – Go Georgia
We have had mental notes on bits of paper hanging around our house for years. Part of life with kids as they are growing up. I think my daughter was responsible for the one that was in our loo with reminders of what to do when you tinkled and other things – aimed at the […]
Telegraph, Terry Wogan And Snide Obituary
So there has been an online row about a ‘horrifically sour, snide and patronising tone of an anonymously written obituary about Terry Wogan published in the Daily Telegraph. You’ll have to take the words of the paper I read as there is no way on earth that I would read the rubbish that is printed […]
England Won Rugby and Cricket One Day Match and Arsenal Won
What a weekend. I love my sport and there it all was – a weekend made for me. England Rugby, England One Day Cricket Match AND my team Arsenal playing Bournemouth – BUT DO YOU KNOW WHAT – I missed it all. I’ll come back to that in a minute. I had a great weekend […]
Nepotism – 16 Year Old Lad With Great Eye For Image
There have been plenty of press this week about Brooklyn Beckham (BB – that was Brigitte Bardot’s famous initials in my youth). He is sixteen years old and has been hired by Burberry as photographer of their latest fragrance range. Sixteen – he should be the tea boy on the staff. Some pretty top class […]
Blogs and Diaries
My wife has kept a diary for years. I must feature in there somewhere – well probably everywhere – dread to think. Like all diaries it is her private corner and will probably make a good read some day for our ancestors. I am not destined to see those entries – I have never been […]
Last New Year Promise To Be Completed
Blog updated – Done!!
You Have Probably Read This… And Ticked A Box To Say You Have Read It.
Somebody – a legal somebody – has written this – and you have read it. You ticked a box when you signed up to say you have read and agree with all of their Terms of Service This is a smidgeon of the PayPal Terms of Service picked just now totally at random from the […]
You’re Looking Well – What Great Words To Hear
The only report I have on my health is that it is good. That saga is behind me – no more treatment at the moment and a body scan in 3 months time to check that all still looks good in there. I have had a week of bumping into people that I haven’t seen […]
Cat food that can help you run faster
I received a parcel yesterday morning and as I was busy simply dumped it into the house, not giving it another thought. My wife does nearly all of her shopping online and as I work from home, I am on first name terms with most of the van drivers who drop off packages (oh and […]
I Had To Ask The Consultant Which Of My Kidneys Had The Tumour
Okay it’s a New Year and I have made a resolution that I will get my blog back on track with regular updates. Oh and having visited it now to write this post I see it needs an overhaul. Pathetic looking blog. I actually like writing but have been making the lame excuse about ‘no […]
All I Want for Christmas is a Pencil, Paper, Penknife and a Whistle!
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.
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 […]
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