Category: Life Skills
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Putting the fun back into blogging
I’m sick of typing. I’m bored of sitting in front of a screen watching words and sentences form, all while wondering whether anyone will bother to read them and, if they do, whether they will like them. Or even care. This sort of goes with the territory of my day-to-day job. I am a writer.…
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Greg James and Tim Minchin are right – be ‘pro’ things
Radio 1 DJ Greg James wrote a lovely piece for the i last week exalting the power and joy of being a nerd. In it, he wrote how people should embrace the things that bring them joy, rather than what people think is cool. For him, this means embracing his love of gardening, Airband radio…
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Millennial Gent Year 4 – Introducing Short Man Style
I can’t quite believe it’s been four years since I started this blog. In the last few weeks I’ve been pretty quiet as work and the rest of life got in the way, but if ever there was a time to get my stuff in order again then it is now. And I have some…
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Don’t be a d*ck online
“It’s a shame we even have to discuss.” That was Will Smith’s reflection in his song If You Can’t Dance (Slide) from his 2006 album Lost & Found. What followed was advice for dancing which still rings true today: There’s no lip biting or pelvic thrusts, I mean, you think that move will put the…
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The Rock: Lessons from the 200 million man
Dwayne Johnson recently announced that he has passed 200 million followers on Instagram. This makes him the most followed man in America and the most-followed American man worldwide. Whether you have been following the man formerly known as The Rock since his body slams and baby oil days in the then World Wrestling Federation, or…
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How to make the most of lockdown
“May you live in interesting times.” That may or may not be a curse of Chinese provenance, but one cannot help but feel that it might have been uttered in rage a few months ago. We certainly live in interesting times. As of yesterday, the UK is now in the state of lockdown which many…
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Wash your damn hands
Today I was in the gym, changing room and I saw a guy washing his hands. He was taking a long time over it. In fact, he was there long enough to have sung God Save The Queen at least twice. But the reason he was at the sink for so long is not because…
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17 Rules of Modern Etiquette
The world is changing and the rules for men and women living in it are doing the same. In the latest edition of GQ, the staff at that most illustrious of men’s lifestyle publications set out a list of 27 Rules for Being a Gentleman. It suggested that many outdated rules, such as walking roadside…
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20 rules for 2020
Ah, New Year’s Day. It is one of our great traditions. As a new year – and a new decade – dawn, we customarily greet it with a hangover and a list of ‘new year, new me’ resolutions which will have been largely confined to the forgotten waste paper bin of life before Spring’s blossoms…
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How to open a bottle of Champagne
There are a few skills you really should master just in case you are ever called on to use them. I would put opening a bottle of Champagne or Prosecco right up there with changing a tyre or a lightbulb in skills you want to have mastered should the situation arise. Many of you in…
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