Category: Inspirational

  • Chevy Lane – Food Experience with a Difference

    Chevy Lane – Food Experience with a Difference

    A Restaurant Review. We decided that we just felt like having a burger and Spur seemed like an obvious choice……..

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  • The Power of Human Touch

    The Power of Human Touch

    My Experience I can to this day, some sixty eight years later, recall the first time I kissed a little girl. Although not one hundred per cent clearly, I still remember her face and her somewhat full rosebud lips. More than this I recall that she took my hand, held it fast, turned and kissed…

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  • A World of Difference

    A World of Difference

    Are we not fortunate to be living in a world where every single thing that is within and surrounding us is different? Whether you choose humanity, flora, fauna, geography, seasons, time, weather and natural phenomenon, you will see difference. If this is not startling enough, then just be still and open your eyes, not only…

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  • The Rose

    The Rose

      Throughout history the simple rose, a beautiful fragrant flower, has been the source of much that has been written about life, love, beauty and fragrance. Although the rose, like so much of nature’s gems, appears so defenseless against all of the elements of life, so easily crushed by these elements; roughly picked by less…

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  • My Big Fat Greek Baptism

      “We have been invited to my very good friend Lia’s grandchild’s baptism; you ok with going?” my Fiancée enquired. “Sure” I replied, knowing that if my Woman wanted to go along to the service, then so did I. Bearing in mind that where my Woman is, there I wish to be, because not only…

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  • My Son Left Today

    It is said, that no parent should have to bury their child. Yet, in the span of our lives, we are not given the choice; there are many of us parents, who are given the painful task of burying our children. Since time immemorial, certain parents have been handed this painful task; a task that…

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  • The Art of Sabrage

    “Sabrage /səˈbrɑːʒ/ is a technique for opening a champagne bottle with a Sabre,[1] used for ceremonial occasions. The wielder slides the Sabre along the body of the bottle to break the top of the neck away, leaving the neck of the bottle open and ready to pour. The force of the blunt side of the…

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  • ….of Books and Movies

    How often have you heard others say, ‘Don’t watch the movie, until you’ve read the book’, or ‘The movie was not anywhere near as good as the book’. Of course, most of us agree with these statements and their many variants. Maybe we should agree, because there must be a measure of truth in each…

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  • A Daughter’s Father’s Day Message to Her Daddy

      The following article is subscribed to this site by mandymoo Hello Daddy, on this Father’s Day, I wanted you to know, how I feel about you. To me you are much more than just a father, to me you are: A Daddy

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  • Tot Facienda Parum Factum

    Tot Facienda Parum Factum

    Tot Facienda Parum Factum “So much to do, so little done” Last words uttered by Cecil John Rhodes, British businessman, mining magnate and founder of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia) on his deathbed. This was the motto of my high school and whenever I remember these words, I recall my teachers, trying vainly to drum…

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