Bullies’ Charter
Set aside the politics: I am in despair that our Prime Minister has just given carte blanche to every bully in the land to abuse work colleagues with impunity. Now it seems that “it wasn’t intentional” and “no-one told me”…
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Every little counts – use Amazon Smile
I’m very proud to be Life President of our local Catisfield Memorial Hall which everyone can support (at no cost) using Amazon Smile. You can choose this charity through the very straightforward Amazon Smile page and then Amazon will donate…
Babies’ Heads
One of those pieces of Royal Navy food slang. Imagine a tray full of individual steak and kidney puddings: rows of glistening and moistly steaming pale domes…. I haven’t made these for probably 40 years but thought a little warming…
Loving Lock-down.
The traffic isn’t as quiet but the people are definitely louder. I wish I’d maintained a graph of the exponential increase in sociability during the last few months – it would have been a wonderful antidote to those awful official…
Disability
Q: What difference has 25 years made? A: Not a lot if you’re a disabled person. This week marks 25 years since the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (later included in the Equality Act 2010). And the result is a raspberry.…
Quick cakes for tea
Friends Joan and Jeff visited for a Covid-secure tea and came laden with their allotment produce including an enormous potato weighing in at over 750g – that would feed a family of four. They’d brought peas that can be planted…
Lest we forget.
Not even Covid can stop us remembering those who gave their lives for our futures, freedom and democracy. Get your Poppy face mask from the Royal British Legion on-line shop and put on a brave face amidst our own troubles…
Accessible communications
If you need some tips about making information easy for anyone, try this little handbook I put together: One colleague sent me this feedback this week: “I’m a carer for my dad who has advanced Parkinson’s disease and dementia…
Hungry children
It seems rather shameful to be writing these Covid cookbook recipes each week when there are clearly millions of people very much struggling to get a meal on the table – especially for their children during this half-term. I too…
Pristine whites
Out of the loft popped a dusty box labelled “Tropical Whites”. It has been there for 36 years on the remote off-chance that, when I was still in the Navy, I might have been sent back to an overseas appointment.…