Last weekend I was out walking near the River Severn in Gloucestershire, England, with a friend I had not seen for a while. We had lots of great conversation to catch up on. It was a rather impromptu walk as we had both been busy in our worlds of work and neither of us had been out walking in the mud for a while. Also, as we live in different parts of the country we can always make the excuse that it is not easy. A grabbed opportunity saw us munching some lovely French pastries and drinking hot spiced juice by our cars prior to setting off.

The term ‘work life balance’ has been gaining ground for

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As you may be aware we are well into Lent, the time in the Christian year when people give up something. Many other religions have a similar time in their annual calendar, and unique to their faith.

At lent, chocolate is a well favoured item to give up – some succeed some get tempted. Now I am not here to judge or make anyone feel guilty if they have slipped from their chosen path, or to feel brilliant if you are still on track. This year though it got me thinking about what bad habits I may have that I should give up, and this raised some interesting questions.

How do we know we have started bad

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