Blog: Mel's Muse

Birth Order - Middle Child

According to the Wikipedia website, one of the first people to suggest that birth order has an effect on personality was an Austrian psychiatrist, Alfred Adler. A contemporary of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, he argued that the way in which each of us tackles the major aspects of life – friendship, love and work...

Posted at 01:00am on 17th October 2008

Sex Or Chocolate? Chocolate Or Sex? How Would You Define Happiness?

Revised: NEW YEAR'S EVE, 31st December, 2009 Much has changed since I first wrote this article, so it seemed to me that it deserved to be revised, amended and added to, with quotes, suggestions and advice. I hope, that in following some of the ideas, you might find yourself stumbling on happiness, without, perhaps, ever...

Posted at 12:20pm on 15th October 2008

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A Painful Post Mortem - One Critical Comment

I have read A Painful Post Mortem with much interest and I am greatly impressed with the book and, not least, your actual written style. Congratulations!

I have only one critical comment and that is the use of the word ‘ruddy’. Your character Mark would, I suspect, have been far more likely to say ‘bloody’.

It...

Posted at 01:00am on 15th October 2008

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Is Taking Risks In The Second Half A Good Game Plan For Life?

OLD AGE? YOU GOTTA LAUGH, BEFORE YOU DIE

Do you ever feel that there are times in your life when your body is trying to convince you that it’s closer to lights out than it is to reveille? You don’t, actually, have to be in your dotage to feel like this. Neither do the...

Posted at 11:00am on 13th October 2008

Competition - Winner Of The Bucket List - 5 Things I'd Like To Do Before I Die

For those of you who may be coming to this Post for the first time, here is the competition I set at the beginning of September, asking you to list the Five Things I’d Like To Do Before I Die.

PETULANCE & PRESSURE

It was obviously something that you all find quite daunting, because it...

Posted at 09:38am on 11th October 2008

Eldest Child Syndrome - Are You One? Or Do You Know Of One?

Have you ever been in a situation where you begin to wonder whether other people’s expectations of you exceed your ability or willingness to deliver? Of course you have! Silly question – unless you’re one of those super-humans who knows how to say ‘No!’ But that’s another issue, for another day.

BIRTH ORDER AND SELF

Thing is,...

Posted at 10:21am on 9th October 2008

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Man Flu? The Female Version's The Killer Strain!

MAN FLU?

I don’t know about Man Flu, but I’ve definitely been suffering with the female version this week. You know the sort of thing? Having hardly slept overnight, you wake up on Monday morning feeling utterly ghastly: stuffed ears feeling as though they’ve been pumped full of the insulating foam that lines the cavity walls...

Posted at 18:18pm on 6th October 2008

Soul Survivor - Uv Readers' Group Meeting

UV READERS’ GROUP

will be meeting in THE LIBRARY atTHE GRAND HOTEL at

7pm on THURSDAY 23rd OCTOBER 2008

Please bring your book with you: Soul Survivor by Philip Yancey
Refreshments will be available from the bar

Posted at 21:54pm on 4th October 2008

Recipes From A Yorkshire Woman

THE REAL YORKSHIRE PUDDING

Consistently produce the perfect Yorkshire pudding; one that rises majestically into crisp pinnacles on the edges yet retains a moist base. Nick says mine are great, but unlike me, he doesn't come from the north of England where a housewife is judged on the quality of her Yorkshire puddings!

This was one...

Posted at 16:31pm on 4th October 2008

Innovation & Profundity - Competition Short List - 5 Things I'd Like To Do Before I Die

Related Posts: Final Day A PROCESS OF ELIMINATION

Wow! I’m glad the response to my competition on the Five Things I’d Like To Do Before I Die wasn’t overwhelmingly large. It’s much more difficult than I realised to judge something like this fairly. I’d hate to be a Booker prize judge! But thank you, again, to...

Posted at 16:32pm on 3rd October 2008

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