On Monday I began telling the story of our infamous trip to Scotland, and how we got off on a very bad start when we missed our connector in London to Aberdeen, resulting in us having to spend the night in London. We were pretty sure that was a bad as it coule get......
"The world is a looking-glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it in turn will look sourly at you; laugh at it, and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion." (William Makepeace Thackeray 1811–1863)It is amazing how two...
"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else" (Sir Winston Churchill 1874–1965).As we are surrounded by catastrophes, economic meltdown, wars and rumours of wars, optimism is sometimes denounced as a pointless concept. Yet this word is of great...