What can social media give you? What can social media help you to give to others? What’s the best thing social media has done for you lately? Care to share? Social media offers and enables so much. At its best, social media can enable people to come together and give of their best in a […]
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Of Jackals, West Wings and Owning It
The West Wing is one of the greatest TV shows. The dialogue and characters are an endless source of delight and inspiration. This is a look at the greatness of two West Wing actors: Allison Janney and Rob Lowe.
After the snow, the silence
There’s just something transportingly beautiful about waking to find it’s snowed overnight. The world is still, silent and white. This morning (Sunday 17 January 2016, also my seventh Twitterversary) is the first day on which any snow has settled in the nearly 18 months since I moved here. It was an honour and a delight […]
Twitterversary time: The seven year Twitch?
When’s your Twitterversary? If you tweet, what has your time a-tweeting meant to you? Is it a love thing? And is it possible to tire of the conversation that never sleeps? The seven year itch describes a moment seven years into long-term relationships when cracks start to appear. In terms of my Twitter life, what […]
Tall tweets: What is Twitter’s ‘thing’?
Twitter offers connection across all boundaries and beauty in brevity. So will the rumoured extension of tweet lengths spoil Twitter’s ‘thing’? And just what is Twitter’s ‘thing’ anyway? Are you ready for the era of the tall tweet? Coming this year, the rumoured increase in tweet lengths from 140 characters to perhaps as many as […]
2016: What can we do to make this year delightful?
May 2016 prove to be your very best year yet. What would make this year delightful for you? What can we do to make this year delightful? Gentle reader: It hopefully will not have escaped your attention that a new year is upon us. Here’s my tweeted picture of the first sunrise of 2016: I […]
Lemmy at 70: Born to lose, live to win?
Motörhead’s Lemmy was a quintessential gentleman, and by all accounts sounds to have been the best friend you could ever hope to have. This post (originally written for Lemmy’s 70th birthday in 2015) celebrates the greatness of Lemmy.
Introversion, crunchy frogs & Quiet
Gentle reader, what was the last book that truly spoke to you? For me, it’s a book by Susan Cain, entitled Quiet. I want to tell you what it means to me. And my good friends Helen Tracey and Siobhan Sheridan are also here to offer their words on introversion and on Quiet. I wish […]
#7songs: Time to lie down and be counted?
If you had to pick seven songs over seven days, what would they be? Music is all about where it takes you. Why not let it take you somewhere brand new? I recently shared seven songs that mean the world to me over seven days. I tweeted links to all seven, and have blogged about […]
#7songs: What seven songs define your life?
If you had to pick seven songs over seven days, what would they be? Music is a language all its own. One I can’t speak, one I can’t describe. But one I can listen to endlessly. Music is a world all its own. One we can step into whenever we want, and go wherever we […]
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