Mental Health & World Homeless Day
Today is Tuesday 10th October. It is also World Mental Health Day. This years’ theme is ‘Mental Health in the Workplace’ – something that is so important to me that a large…
True Grit!
Today’s blog is a very personal one! I am sitting in a hotel room in Hertfordshire waiting for a phone call from my 15 year old daughter, Katie, asking to…
(Extra)ordinary Salford heroes
Today's blog title is a play on words from the amazing book which my good friend and church leader Chris Lane, launched this weekend. His book is entitled 'Ordinary Miracles'...
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Live and unplugged…
When my brilliant new website (created by Scruffymonkey Digital Media) was launched recently, we knew there was one thing missing from the site. Chris and Lindsay Dawes, the site creators,...
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Thoughts on Loneliness
For several years now I have regularly recorded ‘Thoughts‘ for Bolton FM. I first started when I was a Chaplain at the University of Bolton and continued when I was…
Only do what only you can do!
When I set my business up in February 2016 my business card had a massive range of services on! Over the course of my career I have been fortunate to…
Evil will not prevail
I really don’t plan to blog only when something notable occurs – like with Prince Harry’s brave stance on mental health issues – but I can’t not write about the…
Prince Harry is right – it’s VERY good to talk!
It’s been some time since my last blog but I really had to say something about Prince Harry (and indeed Prince William and his lovely wife) and the courageous and…
The realistic optimist!
There are different kinds of people making up the World. There are those who constantly look for what might go wrong next (pessimists) those who are somewhere in the middle…
I’m Listening …
My featured image is a flyer designed by my lovely friend Louise Ingham. It is very much a first draft at present but I thought I would use it to illustrate…