As a child, I remember summer was about holidays from school, wearing less clothes, no shoes, playing with neighborhood friends, feeling warm rather than cold, ice blocks in cordial drinks and generally knowing that it was an easy time of the year; a good time; a fun time. I'm a heaps older now, but I find there is little about those childhood summers that I can re-capture. Certainly we are on holidays, which is great, and we are wearing fewer clothes and...
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Happy New Year everyone! As we gaze into the glass ball that is the year ahead, I wonder if this will this be the year when the commitments made in Paris in December 2015 are translated into our day-to-day lives? I hope so but it will mean change for all of us. If, however, we embrace the necessary changes, then we may get closer to assuring our futures and those of the world's children, both born and yet...
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Twenty-six posts in a bit over six months and it's time to review what I'm doing, so I'm going to take a break for a while and think. I'll let you know what the next stage is for this blog but right now I feel a glimmer of hope that there is some support for the vital, managed change that is so necessary. I am not suggesting that it is a sure thing, and definitely not easy, but I see a...
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