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Happiness blooms from within

CAPTAINS LOG: 4th August IT’S not what happens to you but how you react that matters.  It’s not what happens to you but how secure you are in yourself that allows the best or worst of reactions.  I see the ‘happiness blooms from within’ quote all the time (because I...

Don’t Panic!

CAPTAINS LOG: 7th July LAST week I wasn’t well (don’t worry, it’s not a pity post!) and I spent the at home. Various tests later it turns out that I am still a medical mystery. At 49 years old I remain and probably will always be undiagnosed. By Friday of last week I...

Write your own fortune

CAPTAINS LOG: 9th June I can’t remember a time I didn’t want to be a writer.  A time when I didn’t want to be an author.  I have never wanted to be anything else.  I have never had a career; I have only ever had jobs…and man, have I had a lot of them.  What’s really...

Life is a gift…open your present

CAPTAINS LOG: 2nd June  OVER the last couple of weeks I have been reminded of just how precious life is and the importance of being happy and living it to the fullest.  In a few weeks I turn 49.  I actually can’t fucking believe I will be 49 years old.  I’m rebelling...

Doing it for yo-self

CAPTAINS LOG: 12th May ON the estate I grew up on, there was a woman who lived up the road who used to say (to anybody who would listen) “if I knew then, what I know now…” to be fair she was talking about having kids but that’s a whole different subject. BUT it got me...

Love Kindly

CAPTAINS LOG:  28th April I don’t believe in coincidence.  I was thinking about doing this blog a couple of weeks ago and then…. ON my way home from work one day last week, I saw a guy I used to work with.  I didn’t smile or stop to say hello.  Instead I kept my head...