Fallow Period

I have had a fallow period as Joe Blogs. My life as Joseph the son, the husband, the homeowner and the employee has completely changed beyond recognition. I lost both my parents within six months of each other, my employment had ended and so then did my marriage and home, all at the same time,

E mail me, I will pay attention then.

I have noticed that the spoken word has lost it’s currency. Not in real life, person to person, but in work, organisations and all the times where communication happens and things matter. So to narrow the field I will give an example about work. I still think the most important interaction is the spoken and

All Blogged Out

  For a short while I was all blogged out. A nearby colleague had decided to plagiarise  elements of this blog and when I asked politely was there any scope in them changing or modifying their new blog or working together so I could assist in freshening up their blog in a more original way

I Don’t Want To Go Forward To The Past

(I Want To Go Back To The Future) Like around 16.1 million others I awoke on Friday 24th June 2016, bewildered, astounded and profoundly saddened at the EU referendum result to leave, the detailed outcomes and what was soon to be the consequences that my fellow citizens had unleashed on the United Kingdom based on

I’m thinking that it must be love

It’s too late to be grateful.   I thought that starting 2016 was going to be the anti climax that  was promised following the long Christmas and New Year break, I was going to fight against that as I had a few days leave to take and some plans to execute. I was feeling more

Belonging

Having recently attended a number of work events where I have both facilitated and attended workshops that have looked at equality, LGBT, working longer in the NHS and team based solutions, one of the themes that has emerged is how we interact with each other, with our fellow workers, our teams and even what we

The Bedroom Door

I have been attending conferences at various ( mostly seaside ) places all around the UK for over 25 years. It is a part of the role of representative that I had at first taken on when other colleagues weren’t that bothered to attend, and then as a deputy for others who couldn’t attend and then

A Paramedic’s Guide To Reduced Stress

There are hundreds of self help books, articles and web pages dedicated to the pursuit and maintenance of a stress free existence. They often can have the most generic and broad brush remedies for a healthy well being and some of them are really good for some people. However for those who have a job

A Leaning on a Lamp post

This appeared on a lamp post in London. The Metro newspaper has reported on it.

Check Out this Radio Remodel ( I have nearly completely recovered….sic)

When I was in hospital for two weeks during last Christmas and New Year and started to recover I asked that the recently acquired DAB radio I had bought in a junk shop be brought in with my super hi-fi headphones. The last few days of recovering to a level well enough for the consultant