13 Life Lessons
What has life taught you?
I find at the very young age of 46 that I’m not as young as I once was but I’m not referring to physical age here but rather the fact that me being the age I am has...
The Big C
On Saturday my brother in law and sister (Paul & Anne) arrive in the UK then on Sunday he enters hospital in prepartion for a 10hr operation on Tuesday.
He has “pseudomyxoma peritonei”...
Think Like da Vinci
Michael Gelb is the author of a book called “How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci” and in it he expands on the ‘seven steps to genius every day‘ …
Now, I haven’t read...
How to Pick a University
I originally posted this some time back and elsewhere as a reminder for myself and as an aid to other parents / students. I present it here, in a slightly edited format but in principle the ethos of the...
My Top 5 Free Security Tools.
There is an incredible amount of free software on the internet and unfortunately a fair bit of it is likely to cause more problems than they purport to fix. So I was thinking what I could write about when...
Geocaching
Yesterday the family and I went geocaching.
Geocaching.com describes this as:
Geocaching is a high-tech treasure hunting game played throughout the world by adventure seekers equipped with GPS...





