Category: News

  I’m often heard to say, don’t ask a question unless you can deal with the answer. I say it in restaurants – don’t ask me if I’m enjoying my meal unless you can handle me saying that the food was cold, or late, or both. I say it on surveys – don’t ask me […]

    When can you stop wishing people Happy New Year? When you first see them after 1 January? At the end of the first week of Jan? The First week of Feb??? First week of March!!!! But what if your new year isn’t 31 Dec? In Iran it’s in March. In Israel it’s in […]

  I often talk about how you shouldn’t believe everything you read.  That’s not just confined to newspapers, but what the other side say to you too.  Just because they tell you that you’ve got a bad claim doesn’t mean they’re right. However, you might think that this doesn’t apply to social media, such as […]

      It’s a really strange saying, letting sleeping dogs lie.  Any one who has a dog or even has any experience of looking after dogs, they don’t really sleep.  It’s like they constantly have one eye open (or one ear cocked) in case there is something they should be eating, sniffing, peeing on […]

One of the more interesting aspects of my job involves the conversations I have with people about their understanding of legal provisions, and watching the mist clear when they realise that something they thought was really complicated is actually quite simple.  Or the realisation that something that they’ve been doing for years is actually not […]

  Judgements are a big part of my life. I judge what the weather is going to be like in the morning (and whether I can trust the weather forecast) before I decide what I’m going to wear for the day. I judge what mood my teenage son is going to be in – is […]

    I know that everyone is making jokes about our esteemed leader at the moment, and some of them are actually quite funny, but I’ve got a different bone to pick with him, or his staff.  I don’t think they can count too well. Apparently, the Government has reported that Employment Tribunal proceedings are […]

  In the same way that first impressions last, the opening line of a letter can have a lasting impression on the reader, and not always for the right reason.  For example, if you receive an e mail from someone you don’t know and it starts with “My dearest Stephanie” you’d probably assume they want […]

  I’m a great lover of famous sayings. Discretion is the better part of valour Necessity is the mother of all inventions, Or how about my latest favourite Assumption is the mother of all F@*k ups. In all areas of life, it’s easy to make assumptions and some are absolutely fine. I assume that Southampton […]

Christmas Games Years ago, Christmas used to be a lot more fun. I don’t just mean when I was a kid, because as a child, other than Christmas presents, December only really stuck out as being rather cold and sometimes snowy. But as a young adult, Christmas was an endless round of parties and excuses […]