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Is everyone else super-person? I can only speak for myself, but I’m struggling to fit everything in. There’s stuff I have to do, like basic cooking and eating and cleaning and having a shower. I know it’s tedious but it’s necessary and takes, let’s say, an hour and a half each day. And sometimes I have to go to the market for fruit and vegetables, or nip round the corner to the supermarket for milk and bread and coffee - another half an hour. If I’m to stay healthy, I need regular exercise - my exercise of choice is walking in the open air. If the weather is kind I can stride beside the canal, breath sweet air and hear the birds sing. That’s another hour. (If the weather is rubbish, I go for a swim - by the time I’ve gone to the pool, changed, swum, showered, changed again, and walked home, there’s not much change out of an hour and a half).  Then, I’m told I need to practise mindfulness - given the sensory soup of walking, and then the bombardment of useful and usele...

This blog is going to be a bit off-topic.      I'm in the middle of planning for several school visits and my mind is not so much like Sandra's fluttery brown things as like an over-excited and untrained collie racing round a field, barking furiously and scaring away the sheep it's trying to round up.      In an attempt to exhaust the over-excited collie, I went to the gym on Tuesday morning. And That Bloke was there again. The one that makes my jaw drop.      Before you start conjuring up some tall, blond, muscled Adonis, stop and think again. He is nothing whatsoever like that.      He is Asian and probably no taller than me, though he's certainly much slimmer.      He doesn't strut around in a skin tight vest with all his tattoos on oiled display. Instead, he dresses anonymously, in a loose t-shirt and knee-length baggy shorts. The most ' don't -look-at-me' gear you could imagi...

           Have you been watching “ Supersize v Superskinny” – a tv programme on British television?   It shows the extremes of being obese and underweight.   I have had milder versions of both body images so I have found it very useful in making me review even further my thoughts about food.             I think I am finally getting my act together, but as with the ‘Food and Thought’ chapter in my book ‘ Emotional Health for Emotional Wealth’,   I am issuing a disclaimer for this blog.   Whatever I say here is about my own personal experiences and observations and in no way does it represent advice or a recommendation .   You need to check out your own eating issues with your own medical doctor.           Seven years ago I was diagnosed as diabetic (type 2) and put on insulin injections immediately.   Trauma...