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Coaching Blog 32: glass screens & bow ties
Driving my youngest daughter to one of her 1,000 after-school activities, I spotted a white haired old guy, walking upright, but slowly, wearing a bow-tie, black jacket and hat. It wasn’t fancy dress – he was just well-dressed; so … Continue reading
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Tagged amoun, baggy jeans, body language, bow tie, bow ties, certain age, clothes, faces, fallacy, fancy dress, glass screens, good reason, grey hair, knees, leggings, old man, pedestrians, teenagers, time warp, youngest daughter
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Coaching Blog 31: Initials on the Moon
About once every 3 weeks, something happens that makes me question my parenting skills (actually that’s not the real timescale ….. but I don’t want you to judge me.) Last Friday, after the end of a long week, I … Continue reading
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Tagged apollo 17, comedies, daughter tracy, dunphy, eugene cernan, girly, glass of wine, good god, hysteria, initials, last friday, last man on the moon, lunar dust, lunar surface, man on the moon, parenting skills, space travel, television camera, three letters, timescale
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Coaching Blog 30: Life Lessons from my car mechanic
I’ve been ill and now I’m tired ….. really tired. I’m not sure where the last two weeks have gone. My desk is covered in paper and I have loads to do. I’m also a couple of days behind … Continue reading
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Tagged bonnet, cameron, car mechanic, colour, couple of days, desk, emergency, everything, fab, Fast, favourite, few days, flat battery, help, hood, last time, Lessons, life, light, love, nbsp, nick clegg, oil and water, passat, phone, rac, reading, Royal, royal wedding, samantha, sofa, someone, tara palmer tomkinson, Thinking, time, twenty minutes, warning light, wedding, Wednesday, wife miriam
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Coaching Blog 29: Samantha Brick and Lake Wobegon
People, people, people, Samantha Brick lives on Lake Wobegon……. and let’s leave her there. Ok, life’s a struggle for her because random men pronounce themselves stunned by her beauty; she cannot drink all of the bottles of champagne sent in … Continue reading
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Tagged biceps, bit, brick, bridesmaid, bunches, cantaloupe, care, champagne, confident woman, criticism, daily mail, drink, Effect, fictional town, garrison keillor, habit, horror, jealous friends, job, lake wobegon effect, Levels, loveliness, nbsp, nephew, photograph, preparation, psychological theory, revision, samantha, Sapir, size, smoke, struggle, turn, Whorf, woman, year
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Coaching Blog 28: Tired of Being Tired ?
When my youngest child was about 7, she would spend hours dancing and singing along to High School Musical 2 – and when I say dancing and singing, I mean complicated steps that seem to have been choreographed by Savion … Continue reading
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Tagged adults, Ashley, banjo, body, brain, concern, cripple, disney, disney films, doubt, emotion, everything, fred astaire, handbag, jack daniels, knack, level, love, love affair, Mum, negative thoughts, place, premise, Psychology, rudolf nureyev, sharpay, sheer joy, shoe, smiley place, someone, something, tactic, Thinking, time, Tired, visit, weekend
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Coaching Blog 25: Sometimes asking ‘Why ?’ Is OK
Years ago when I was still living with my parents, the local TV news had (yet another item) about the uselessness of local authority maintenance departments. This time, the guys from Direct Works had removed the roofs from about … Continue reading
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Tagged authority, authority maintenance, child, Coaching, computer, computer print, concern, council, council houses, discomfort, event, file, foolishness, grip, heap, house, hysterical laughter, local authority, local news, local tv news, maintenance departments, nonsense, order, parents, reporter, road, roof tiles, roofs, side, slates, tarpaulin, time, today, workmen, Works
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Coaching Blog 24: Street Wise vs Clever
‘I’d much rather be streetwise than know the capital of Rome’. I’m assuming that like a lot of people, you laughed when (if) you read that quote from Chantelle Houghton – ‘celebrity’ and soon to be mother of Alex Reid’s child … Continue reading
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Tagged alex reid, are, big brother winner, capital, celebrity, celebrity big brother, chantelle houghton, Clever, cocozza, consequence, contribution, core values, cure, cure for cancer, earning money, eye, goal, having sex, health, inhibitions, insomnia, kim kardashian, limelight, lindsay lohan, Lohan, mental health, nbsp, place, programme, public eye, rome, s child, school, slogans, something, street wise, time, TOWIE, well-being
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