Relationships
Setting out a civil marriage ceremony
142 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Marriage of Jonathan Spencer and Elaine Coady Music: As people are coming in a musician (our friend phil …see www.jomojames.com ) is playing and then after seating sings (Van Morrison: Crazy Love) Elaine and Jonathan come in to Trumpet March/Voluntary Jonathan will have his two older children Freya and Roland... »
Lets get married
9 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... So after a divorce and swearing I would never do it again, i got married! It was such a lovely day. »
Divorce and a Man with children – the new baby
17 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... So as you may know, I am divorced and have two children. I met my new partner on a train (not on the internet..) and I was over at the Fathers Direct web site: http://www.fathersdirect.com/ and i came across this blog by a guy who is expecting... »
A quiet hairdryer
61 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I work at home (wah)on a Wednesday, oh yes I know all the jokes, but I really do and I am more productive because of it. I am more productive not just on that day at home but also when I get back to my place of work. On... »
Men Divorce and your (my) confidence
11 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Ever since I seperated and got divorced i find I am emotionally and psychologically off balance. As any one who works knows colleagues can often not be the best of communicators, but I only have to get a phone call from a director and I think everything... »
Never make friends or take a love on the basis of potential (the P word)
12 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Relationships and potential(a warning) I want to be loved for who i am and to able to make friends or have a relationship with someone for who they are right now. Of course we all have to imagine some future with a potential partner (theres that P word... »
What to tell your friends!
8 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Your Friends Do not keep the alabaster box of your friendship sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier. The kind of things you mean to say when they are... »
Snobbery
8 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Where you live Where ever you go there you are, is the Bhuddist saying, but I recieved this from a Friend, and it got me thinking “I wished that I had been told That a ‘downbeat’ neighbourhood is exactly that, I would move to a Hampstead or Dulwich... »
Open Minded…Its a two way street
10 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... This entry is cursed… a meeting of minds I want to be with someone who is open minded enough to talk about anything, in depth, who is interested in health poetry philosophy, politics, crystals or whatever..enough to at least have an opinion or an understanding and not dismiss it... »
How can sharing change your perception?
10 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Sharing A friend of mine once told me that being unemployed or poor can take away your right to give, and this takes away your humanity. I am not sure if this is true, but the giving and sharing of a thing gives us our humanity I was recently... »
Sensitive Men
16 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Can men be sensitive? I have heard a number of women come out with a statement recently, that caring, sensitive, artisitic men can really only be found on the gay scene, surely proportionally there are probably just as many philistine gay men as straight. I like being creative, sensitive,... »
The best way to deal with children: Listen!
6 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... 5 minutes more well it has been work work work as we moved offices (june 2004) and I worked over weekends and non stop to make sure everyone was happy and all worked well. At the end of it i was left feeling very overtired and had a short tempered... »
Children Seperation and Divorce
14 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I have often wondered how children cope with the seperation of parents especially in a world where it is so much more commonplace. Well now I get to see it first hand… And begin to understand my own feelings about my children, you never realise what your parents... »
I love Lingerie (encourage your partner to buy it)
12 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I love Lingerie, good lingerie is sexy and the look and feel is fantastic for a woman to wear as well as for a man to admire on her. However Its so tired how men buy these things for women at Christmas, and its usually something thats... »
Change, Relationships and other people
7 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... A friend of mine commented to me that after he split with his wife, some people just didn’t know how to deal with him, what to say, because to them before that time he had always been one of a pair X and Y, now he was just... »
more on: men and divorce, relationships with your children
12 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... For the first time since the end of our marriage my children are going away for 10 days, with my ex and her partner to France, and i will miss them. So here I am at work when my mobile rings, and its my son calling me from Dover... »
Divorce, Seperation and the memory of past events
11 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... One of the great problems that exist with any bereavement, be it a death or the end of a relationship, especially a long term relationship, is what to do with the memories. I have found I have a quite a number of memories; both happy and sad, that are... »
How to win friends
12 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Friends and Friendship Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love. * William Shakespeare The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right. * Mark Twain Friendship... »
19 People have changed our world, Why?
17 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... why have we allowed 19 murderers to change our world? Recently The journalist ROBERT FISK said about 9/11…”We should not have allowed 19 murderers to change our world” I was musing on this on sunday while the septemeber sun, moved behind a beautiful laburnum tree I was looking at... »
Suicide
7 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Suicide A Friend of mine committed suicide coming up for 2 years ago and I have added this entry as I want to say more about it. An amazing man for whom the burden of life bacame too much. God bless Patrick, I hope angels smooth your brow. the ... »
What to get for a birthday present?
6 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Birthdays Ahh Birthdays it is my sons birthday, and i have always liked them celebrating with others on theirs or my own…fear of aging is overcome by joy at birthdays. I was born on the same birthday as my father, I have only realised how this might have effected my... »
Being Liked
7 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Not everyone can like you! Someone who didn’t like me once said this to me, and although its true its not an excuse to become dislikable. You can’t commnicate without listening, as I have found to my cost. Nor should you allow your individuality and expression to xist at the... »
Learn to trust your Instincts
10 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Trusting instincts I am learning to trust my instincts more and go along with what I sense about people…for a while there I stopped doing this and every time I do I end up in a difficult, or uncomfortbale situation or relationship. I should say this happens most when... »
Hurt by Relationships?
11 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... A thought last new year I wrote this an email to a friend and wanted to share with you The People thing, I realise that many at our age are hurt by relationships and life and this makes us a bit reticent a la one of the verses in Oriah... »
Back to basics
8 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Human Beings First hmmm its so easy to project our own feelings and thoughts onto others, just reread and rewrote the passage under my picture… just wanted to add we are humans beings first…farting, fucking, eating sleeping, doing the basics, and it is equally important to be grounded in those... »
Boy Meets Girl
15 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... More on men and women Something about the fantasy of a women and courtesy… of course physicality is important, but many men mistake the pornographic for the real, in which women are always ready to satisfy, give a blowjob at the drop of a hat or some other item of... »
Ratings
- Recipe to make Turkish Coffee
(5.00 out of 5) - To Be a Slave of Intensity – Kabir (5.00 out of 5)
- Kindness – Naomi Shihab Nye (5.00 out of 5)
- Contact Jonathan (5.00 out of 5)
- Jonathan Spencer’s Recipe for Peppermint Creams (5.00 out of 5)
- How to get a close and smooth shave (5.00 out of 5)
- Bespoke suit from Raja Fashions – Don’t do it (5.00 out of 5)
- Unhealthy London Underground (5.00 out of 5)
- The Story of The Islanders (5.00 out of 5)
- Castle Boterel – Thomas Hardy (5.00 out of 5)