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Jonathan is 50, has worked in the arts, political, business, social and healthcare sectors. He is an experienced psychotherapist and motivator and a technically knowledgable leader in business operations. His continuing personal and professional development has led him to expand his practice into hypnotherapy.

The credit crunch – who’s to blame?

The idea of this article is to explain the credit crunch  run a few things by you as everyone wants to look round and blame someone, even if sometimes its a little looking in the mirror....and taking responsibility.  So lets look at the front runners: 1. Read More
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Regular exercise in middle age – same benefits as giving up smoking!

  I heard about some research that suggested taking up exercise in middle age was highly beneficial in terms of health and longevity. It was a swedish study. Then I did a bit of searching around and found this on one of the news sites Read More
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Christmas Recipes

If you want to decrease the cost of Christmas, while improving the quality of the food you eat, then start here. Here is a list of some of the best Christmas recipes on this site, they have been well received and are all family recipes that are tried Read More
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Wood Burning, fires, logs, paper log makers and other eco guilt gadgets

I would like the small open fire in my sitting room to be a wood burning stove, but the cost is prohibitive as I must get the chimney lined and for a small wood burner and the lining I would pay around £1300. … Most carbon neutral policies displace increases in combustion of carbon fuels but that merely slows the increase of atmospheric carbon -which is not “neutral”-. ( permatopia.com ) I remember once having one of those gadgets that compress wet paper and make paper bricks you can burn, much like the one below.

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Song by John Donne

One of the great english metaphysical poets, writing at the height of the elizabethan era.  His poetry can be divided into two periods, those as a younger man that appear to revolve around his life and loves , then those of his later life that reolve Read More
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My Toddler hasn’t slept properly in 6 weeks (neither have I)

Then she developed diarrhoea and her stomach has not been the same since, now she complains that her tummy hurts alot of the time and is not just aware of passing urine and stool but is frightened of it, despite now having gotten over the illness. … So if your child suddenly develops an allergy to going to bed or sleeping problems after being fine with bed time, don’t automatically reach for a baby sleep manual, it could just be that she is ill, about to be ill or genuinely needs help as she reaches a life stage whee she becomes more aware of her individuality and seperartion.

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What are you spending on Christmas

Whether in the UK or the US interest rates have come down and not really been handed on. I have a mortgage in its 2nd year of a 5 year fixed rate and its still offering a better deal that most mortgage companies are right now with the rate in the UK at 2%. So what are you spending this Christmas,are you keeping the purse strings tight, cutting up the credit card and putting coal in the childrens stockings? Are you buying Christmas Pudding and mice pies? Are you having some turkey twizzlers instead of the bird with all it strimmings. OR are you saying what the hell, its a time of goodwill and plenty, of the world turned upside down, so lets splsh out one more time before we all feel like an extra in the BBCs new production of the 1970s series “survivors”.

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21st century blues

so my 20 month old daughter woke me one night and by the time we had got her back to sleep I could no longer lie still and I went to the kitchen made a cup of tea, lit a fire and surfed the net and I found two things of interest to me. 1. Remember Read More
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