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The curse of the unskilled worker is to be misconstrued and under-appreciated. Your hard work is often thought of as of little value and offering little challenge. In short, it’s easy, and anyone can do it. When the ugly issue of Brexit came upon us, that falling portcullis prevented migrant workers from being able to work…
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So this weekend was Brighton Pride. Its not something I take part in anymore, it seems too loud, too busy and too much like it’s a bigparty. That’s the point I hear some of you say and to a degree you’re right. It is a party; it was always a party but it’s not the…
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I spoke to someone today who had a nightmare last night. It really shook them up and when they described what had happened in the dream it was very dramatic. So, I told them about my philosophy on dreams. I believe dreams are part of our unconscious brain making sense of the information it has…
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The Cambridge Dictionary defines it as: ‘the unhappiness or discouragement that results when your hopes or expectations have not been satisfied, or someone or something that is not as good as you had hoped or expected’ Disappointment can enter our lives at any point, sometimes in a minor way and sometimes in ways so fundamental…
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Nudge Theory – I have to be honest I am fascinated by the concept. It came to prominence around 2008 in a book called Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein. They defined their concept as the following: “A nudge, as we will use the term, is any…
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I watched the Coronation on the big screen at Brighton Palace Pier with our CEO. I admit to being a royalist. ‘The firm’ does a lot to promote the country and they come with hundreds of years of tradition and ceremony. But I’m not here to debate whether the monarchy is still relevant or the…
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I don’t normally watch morning talk shows but I was staying with friends up north and it was on. They were talking about sick days from work. The source of the discussion was an ONS report from the Times which stated that in 2022 there had been 185.6 million working days lost to sickness. 29%…
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I was reading an article in live science about a very strange prehistoric creature called a Tully Monster. Dating from 300 million years ago, It was a rather grim deep-sea creature that seems to resemble a squid with ‘eyes on stalks and a strange claw-like appendage coming out of its face’. My favorite ancient creatures…
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I was sad to hear of the passing of Barry Humphries, following the equally sad loss of Paul O’Grady and the tragic loss at such a young age of Paul Cattermole from S Club 7. My nan used to say you can tell you’re getting older when the celebrities you know from your youth start…
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