My 2010s? I like getting older.
It was December 31st 2009. My friend tolerated watching Jules Holland on the TV (I had just experienced a difficult break-up). I felt quite the grinch.
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Reset
Challenging one’s comfort zone
As my nephew and I can attest, watching Mr Bean’s Holiday for what felt like the seventeenth time, Mr Bean came through okay in the end! So can I.
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Closing my eyes and Indonesian lessons
Learning a new language can be both highly individual but also needs a bit of fun thrown in too. What I hadn’t bargained for was that the form of Indonesian I would be learning would be – how shall I put it – potentially useless!
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Autumn is for learning
There is something about the rain and the gloom that, far from depressing me, instead energises me. Especially at this time of year. When I was a young boy, I would prissily and rather pathetically dream ahead during the summer holidays to when the new school term would begin. And which new teachers I would
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My own experience of resetting
It has been a strange old year for me, personally, as I had a big operation earlier in the year – a kidney transplant, in fact, donating for my Dad. Although I wouldn’t necessarily recommend one, the Op certainly gave me useful time to think and reflect on where I head next in life! It
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