My Mum used to tell me to go into the Catering business when I was a teenager thinking about options. She said, everyone will always need to eat and drink, you'll always make a living with that as an occupation. She had a point, and for a while I even considered it

With a new year firmly underway I am at last back at work after a very long absence. Beginning in November I was laid low with a nasty cold virus, and despite a few days here and there where I thought I was finally feeling a bit better I kept on lapsing into this awful state of being unwell

I'm sitting in the coffee shop, and through the window I can see a blue sky streaked with long, grey clouds, it feels calm and yet although I committed to write a blog post each week I am sitting here struggling with what to write.