Another 5min download…… I find being a parent is not always easy, mind you I wasn’t told it was! Where is the master handbook of parenting? Sometimes I find there is truth in the saying you have to be ‘cruel to be kind’ ..well not perhaps ‘cruel’ but your child might perceive you as being [...]
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Cruel to be kind?
Posted in Fast Food.. for thought, tagged cruel, kind, life, love, parent, parenthood, parenting, teenagers on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bad people and me
Posted in Fast Food.. for thought, tagged evil, faith, God, guilty, learning, militant, Somalia on November 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On the way in to work this morning I heard a distressing story of the stoning of a 13 year old girl in Somalia. She was buried with her head poking out above ground and stoned. Evidently she had been gang raped. My initial reaction was how could this Islamic miltant group do such a thing. It [...]
Being Human
Posted in Fast Food.. for thought, tagged choice, experience, Human, love on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wednesday 7.45pm. There is something quite neat about sitting on a train speeding to my destination while being connected to the world through an onboard Wifi link. Sophisticated or what? Getting to the train was not so sophisticated – hauling my case up steps that didn’t have an escalator, squeezing (and I mean squeezing!) onto [...]
Fast Food from Paris…
Posted in Fast Food.. for thought, tagged developement, inequality, kindness, money, paris, status on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have just spent a few great days in Paris doing the tourist thing and taking in the city. What a beautiful city with loads of fine buildings. A couple of things struck me while I was there: Firstly my previous experience of the French people was that I didn’t find them that helpful or friendly. [...]
