#makinglifebetter

I’ve been concentrating on music posts a lot recently, so I thought I’d give you something different for a change. This is about a TV show that I’m guessing many of you won’t have seen, or even heard of, as it is on the Apple TV+ streaming platform, which isn’t the best subscribed streaming channel. Apple have to date concentrated on original content created especially for their channel, rather…

- don't listen to things people want u to do, just so what u want to, and don't be such a people pleaser ! it's nice to want to make sure others are comfortable, but u come first !

- either when u wake up, or before u go to bed, think of either things u want to happen, words that make u happy, or things that happened that day that made u happy !

- open up, keeping everything inside of u is going to go wrong after a while, its good to find that one person who u can just open up to, either irl or online.

- maybe a bit cliche, but drink enough, ive found that it really does make a difference in how tired i am, being dehydrated really puts a damper on ur mood !

One of the biggest news stories here in the UK this past week – apart from the government’s continued dissembling over what is and isn’t happening in their Covid-19 response (usually the latter) – has been the one about Captain Tom Moore. Captain Tom is a WW2 veteran who turns 100 on 30 April, and had set himself the challenge of doing 100 laps of his garden to raise £1,000 for NHS Charities, as…

Halloween – My Annual Reminder

The calendar moves inexorably towards another Halloween. Last year, as I have done on several occasions, I wrote about the commercialisation of this date and, in particular, one aspect of this: the stigmatisation of mental health in some of the costumes on offer. Things have undeniably improved since 2013, when two big retailers – Asda and Tesco – were forced to remove some costumes from sale…