THE sun has got it’s hat on hip hip hip hooray, a friend sang to me recently, and we pondered if this was really the start of the summer we have all been waiting for.  We tend to speculate whether we will have a good long summer, which we feel is well overdue, but will our expectations soon be shattered?  And what will that do to our plans and most of all to our mood.  Read More

As I write this column the early June sun is making a welcome appearance.  How much brighter, happier and enjoyable things seem when the sun is shining.  The cold windy days of winter and spring seem far away, but we know we have to enjoy the sunshine when we can, because sooner than we would like, the warm and hopefully hot sunny days will soon be consigned to memory as autumn is upon us again. Read More