Well ... school’s out and the children practically made a bonfire out of their uniform in celebration.
We were barely out of the school gates before the shoes came off and the hair came down. I was s...
A quick note from the edge today as I’m writing this at home with a string of repairmen going in and out of the house.
The washer is on the blink, the bath taps are leaking and the air conditioning h...
I’m pretty sure I’m writing this from my deathbed.
I’ve already Googled meningitis, man-flu and the plague — fortunately, I don’t seem to have any of those but I do have something that has totally le...
Life is short. What that means in my book is there is definitely room for dessert and wine.
The problem is if we stretch the “life is short” philosophy too far, then we risk life getting infinitely s...
If any of you were watching the Bermuda Day Half Marathon Derby last week, then you might have seen a couch on wheels flying by.
“Flying” is possibly an exaggeration. We did well for the first six mi...
A few days ago I was watching TV with Belle when a black and white clip came on.
“Mummy,” she said, “is this what TV was like when you were a kid? You had cars though, right?”
I didn’t know whether t...
It’s been a crazy week over at Natural HQ. First we had Beat the Couch race day, then I began the Ignite Bermuda entrepreneurial accelerator programme and we’ve just launched the third round of Nutrif...
I love this time of year for sports in Bermuda. Everyone is pumped following the triathlon and the May 24 half-marathon is on the horizon.
Seeing lots of friends and clients ace their sprint or Olympi...
Once upon a time I was so tired I put the iron away in the fridge. I arrived at work with no shoes on, I misspelt my own name, I signed off an e-mail “best retards” (horror). I left water running into...
After a back-to-back morning in the clinic, I lay in the park in the sun for a few minutes at lunchtime. After weeks of wondering if the weather was ever going to warm up, it really feels like summer ...
