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blue sky beyond: feast of sport

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REFLECTIONS ON TRAVEL, LIFE AND MENTAL WELL-BEING. Sunday, 19 July 2009. However, I love a good game of. Really, and when the world's best are doing battle at the highest level, the choice of 'game' ceases to matter to me - to a certain extent, anyway. What takes over at that level of competition is the sheer emotion - the passion and the glory; the pain and despair. Or perhaps the English weather - could conspire to snatch failure out of the jaws of almost-certain success at this stage? But of all the s...

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blue sky beyond: the tyranny of expectations...

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REFLECTIONS ON TRAVEL, LIFE AND MENTAL WELL-BEING. Wednesday, 6 May 2009. The tyranny of expectations. Expectations have a lot to answer for, especially in a society as developed as ours. We are positively encouraged to nurture expectations that are unlikely to be fulfilled, while living in an environment which. They will be unattainable. After all, we could always be brainier, slimmer, sexier, more thoughtful… and so this woman suffers from depression and dissatisfaction, just like many others. 07 Retur...

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blue sky beyond: back to 'normal'

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REFLECTIONS ON TRAVEL, LIFE AND MENTAL WELL-BEING. Saturday, 18 July 2009. To write for a while? It's certainly true that I didn't need to - not in the way I did when I was finding my path out of the abyss of depression, at any rate. But could it be that I need to write now, more than ever, precisely because I am getting back to 'normal'? After all, what is 'normal' anyway, and isn't this a state I never wanted to get back to, given how dysfunctional the state I had thought to be normal had become? So I'...

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blue sky beyond: in the loop

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REFLECTIONS ON TRAVEL, LIFE AND MENTAL WELL-BEING. Tuesday, 5 May 2009. Is a film which carries a serious message through adopting a frequently hilarious tone. I can't remember laughing at a film so much for ages, but was all the while painfully aware that its creator - Armando Iannucci - knows exactly how the powerful elites manipulate our world, and that, instead of creating a pure fiction, he has chosen to exaggerate a scary reality to comic effect. Let me know what you think. A BLOG BY CLOUDBUSTER.

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blue sky beyond: the joys of spring

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REFLECTIONS ON TRAVEL, LIFE AND MENTAL WELL-BEING. Tuesday, 5 May 2009. The joys of spring. 1) New-born lambs in the Dales. I love mint sauce as much as the next man (in fact, I'd wager I love it considerably. Than the next man), but seeing the little darlings bleating and frolicking in Swaledale is another matter entirely. Isn't it? 2) Longer evenings. At least when I finally return to work after my illness (later this week), I will be coming home in the daylight. 3) A cacophony of birdsong in the trees.

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blue sky beyond: September 2010

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REFLECTIONS ON TRAVEL, LIFE AND MENTAL WELL-BEING. Saturday, 11 September 2010. Again, it's been a while! It will be a while before we win a major football tournament - if ever - but I suppose a miracle is always possible. That's pretty much what happened to Greece in the European Championships of 2004, and this is the country I find myself in now, embarking on an Inntravel. Island-hopping odyssey through the Dodecanese. It's going to be special. Bar and restaurant culture was a sight to behold. My d...

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blue sky beyond: memories of poon hill

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REFLECTIONS ON TRAVEL, LIFE AND MENTAL WELL-BEING. Tuesday, 28 April 2009. Memories of poon hill. At 3,193 metres in altitude (around ten-and-a-half thousand feet), Poon Hill is - by my reckoning - more of a mountain than a hill. But then this. Nepal, where the slightest protuberance seems to reach for the sky and where the landscape is viewed on an entirely different scale. Let me know what you think. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A BLOG BY CLOUDBUSTER. You are cordially invited to share in my mea...

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blue sky beyond: appleicious

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REFLECTIONS ON TRAVEL, LIFE AND MENTAL WELL-BEING. Sunday, 19 July 2009. Why my writing has been curtailed over the last few weeks. Not only is it sleek and beautiful, but it engages the senses of touch and sight in such a mesmeric - almost addictive - way. Combine that with the mind-boggling array of 'apps' ('Leeds chants' anyone, or Alan Partidge soundbites? And you have a device which looks like everyone else's, but which. And this is the key - utterly, privately and pleasurably one's own. Subscribe t...

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blue sky beyond: the greatest circus on earth

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REFLECTIONS ON TRAVEL, LIFE AND MENTAL WELL-BEING. Friday, 11 June 2010. The greatest circus on earth. Is finally underway. I can scarcely believe it! The gap between tournaments is so long that I can hardly remember the magic of the previous World Cup by the time the next one comes around. But, sure enough, it arrives on the scene. and, with it, all memories of previous encounters, in far-flung corners of the globe, become vivid once again. Perhaps more than any other, I recall the wonderfully grainy.