Category: Life Skills

  • A guide to Date Night

    Welcome to the first in my Life Skills series. Don’t get me wrong, I am no sort of life coach and I am not even going to try and promise you perfect guides or solutions to anything. But, like any nice chap might, I’m sharing a few insights I might have picked up along the…

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    8 things journalism has taught me

    Facebook’s Timehop can be a terrible thing. It is a vortex of photos of long-forgotten nights out and terrible haircuts all popping up just to dampen your mood first thing in the morning. But it is also a scary reminder of how much time has flown. I got onto Facebook during my first year at…

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    Travel real tale: What I’ve learned

    I travel for work. I know that sounds very exciting and glamorous – and it is, sort of. But there are a few moments when plane-hopping round the world delivers the sort of head-shaking, face-palming experience that you get in any other work place. Whether it is a 5am flight out of a back-of-beyond airport…

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    31 things I’ve learned

    I’m turning 31 today. I figure in the last three decades I must have learned something useful on top of the multitude of interesting but somewhat impractical academia. So here goes, I am going to get all Baz Luhrmann on my experiences and see what I can come up with. Take responsibility for your actions…

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    How to order at the bar or coffee shop

    There are a few irritating situations in life where you cannot help but be annoyed – bad drivers when you are in a hurry, knotted headphones, “Press 1 for…” No one likes being in these situations, but often there is nothing individuals can do to avoid them. But that is not always the case. Take…