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I’ve often seen people who love work being lambasted, as if nothing else is important to them. We need to look again. Anyone who knows me knows that I’m interested in everything. Everything! So, naturally I get distr…. Ooh what’s that? Yes, I get distracted easily. But, we’ve covered that already. It’s one of the many…
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John saw fun. I saw frivolous. John saw a good grip & fun to use. Me? Cumbersome & unnecessary. I prefer function over form; John prefers both with a fondness for form. Give me a solid metal peeler any day! I was about to articulate my annoyance as he beamed about this purchase when something occurred to…
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You know how it is. You go about the house getting on with chores when you hear a crash. What now, you ask yourself rushing towards the noise…
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“The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it.” –W.H. Whyte. My parents, happily married, dreamt of a future together. But after witnessing many heartbreaks I realised that they had very different ideas about the work-life balance needed to build that future. Decades later, I now hear my friends describing the same differences: “I didn’t know he would be gone this often”,…
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It was one of those cold autumn afternoons some weeks ago. We were sitting around an open fire; book in hand, lost in the narrative: Sounds fabulous, doesn’t it? Yeah, sounds fabulous, feels: bloomin’ freezin’! Yep, we’d turned off the heating to save money and here we were sitting outside burning wood and paper! As I was about…
The Chatterjee-Woolmans 