Fore future perfect
NORTHERN Europe is flooded, blizzards are paralysing Canada and the United States. I recently watched The Day After Tomorrow and we are having one of the finest winters in Portugal
What the papers say
Judy Sharp reflects on life and her world – as she sees it. THERE ARE two views on publicity and exposure. One says “no news is good news” and the
The green, green grass of home
Skip Bandele reflects on life and his world – as he sees it. THE RELENTLESS passage of time is propelling us further and further into a future that our predecessors
The generation game
MY CHRISTMAS did not go quite the way it was planned. It should have been very quiet and peaceful, real chill out stuff, with time to sort through mountains of
Paradise lost
ON AUGUST 22 1999, a huge tidal wave was spotted on the horizon and most of the south-facing beaches in the Algarve were rapidly evacuated. Those tourists who remained on
Happy New Year
Judy Sharp reflects on life and her world – as she sees it. OH, FOR heaven’s sake, it’s 2005 already! Doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun? I had to
That time of the year
Judy Sharp reflects on life and her world – as she sees it It’s that time of year, isn’t it? Christmas – an orgy of consumption. Originally, the celebration marked
Words don’t come easy
What do fantastic, lullaby, pumpkin, flip-flop and hen night have in common? They all appear on a list of the 70 most beautiful words in the English language, compiled by
Paying it forward
I saw a movie called Pay it Forward the other evening. It is not a new movie and it was probably not a huge box-office hit – there was no
B-limey, Auntie Jude!
When I was in England last year, updating and upgrading my clinical hypnotherapy and past-life/regression techniques, I caught up with my long-lost nephew, Richard, whom I had last seen when