
The team that should never have won ...
The team that should never have won … Leicester City won the league in England. Maybe you heard? If you are not aware of how big a deal this is then here are some headlines that were more likely than ‘Leicester win the 2016 premier league’: Simon Cowell becomes the Prime Minister of the UK Piers Morgan becomes the manager of Arsenal Football Club Sir Alex Ferguson wins Strictly Come Dancing The Queen is top of the charts at Christmas The Loch Ness monster is found Kim Kardash

When you find a book ...
Recently I had to look through all of my books and decide if there were any I could give away to save some space. This took a while for me for two reasons; number one, I have a lot of books; number two, whenever I find a book I haven’t seen in a while I usually read it. As I was packing up the books into boxes one then another caught my eye again and again until I was basically sitting in a pile of books … reading. It took a long time, but eventually, piece by piece, the book

What Do You Reach For?
I recently broke my hand, or, more accurately, I chipped a bone in my hand. The story isn't particularly spectacular, but here it is; I was playing football (the one you play with your feet for our American friends ;)) and the very first tackle of the game I went shoulder to shoulder with another of the guys who was playing. Off balance I felt myself falling and put my hand out to stop myself. As we were playing indoors all I found to stop myself was a solid wall. Two days la