Henrys Journal

An Idiot Abroad

If you’re a Sky viewer or you’ve wandered around HMV recently, you will most likely have come across the DVD which holds the same name as the title of this article; who knows, someone might have even deemed you worthy enough to have received it as a present. For those who did themselves a favour and didn’t bother to brave the terrible hustle and bustle of pre-Christmas 2010 shopping, here’s a brief summary of AIA: chimp-like man called Karl Pilkington More

To Be A Listener Is Good

A friend who recently moved away to Northern Ireland to look for Special Needs Teaching Jobs recently bestowed upon me a most gracious of accolade: he said I was a good listener. I took this compliment to heart. I’d been trying for some time to be a better listener, and finally here was proof that all the hard work was finally paying off at last! It was a good day, I can tell you.

I was chuffed to say the More

Where’s The Limit?

Being at uni and without any children of my own yet – hopefully for a long time to come – it’s not often I find myself thinking about children and how their playing habits have changed over the years. But recently I was forced to think about this, when I saw an A4 photo-copied sheet on a lamp-post saying that there was a sexual predator living in the area and that children should not be allowed to play outside.

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The Ponderer

Every now and again I hear something that sticks in my head. Like what I heard on TV last night (just after one of them amazing good call Fosters beer adverts: it was a psychologist talking about how we, as humans, have a need to love ourselves, yet when we love ourselves too much it’s considered very bad, and when we don’t love ourselves enough then…well, that’s also bad, and it’s called “low self-esteem”, and that causes all kinds of More

A Fishy Tale

I wouldn’t know a locum doctor job if it stared me in the face, I know very little about nutrition and don’t often cook, but one thing I like and know is healthy is fish: it’s full of goodness and tastes great when in the right hands. Don’t cringe, please, fish can be beautiful and it often is.

As long as it doesn’t come from the Mekong river in Vietnam, that is. If it does then I would steer well More

Shipping A Car From Japan To The UK

Shipping cars including hybrid cars, from one country to another is getting very popular these days as it helps people to save money. But people think that the procedures of importing car are very difficult, and if you are among these people and thinking about importing a car from Japan to the UK, then you are at the right place! Here’s what I found out.

At first, you have to look for a reliable export agent in Japan which More

The Man They Call Leigh

Mike Leigh is strange. Odd. Bizarre. All those words and more…He’s the English filmmaker who has made a lot of films out of very ordinary situations. One of them features a psychopathic driving instructor which reminds me only too well of my own time behind the wheel for the first few weeks…

If I’m being honest, I wouldn’t even say I like all his stuff, but what I would say is this: he has the courage of his convictions, and More

With Contempt

A friend of mine recently challenged me to a duel. “Here he said, I bet you can’t think of nothing like I can!”

I gave this ridiculous question / statement / whatever it was the contempt (I thought) it deserved and predictably an argument promptly began, me calling him various things which now, looking back, seem more than a bit unkind, and him getting aggressive as he does, and being all smug and annoying in that way that really cut More

Was A Massive Shark Fan…

I have always been a massive shark lover, always subscribing to the belief that sharks don’t mean any harm, not really. No, when they tear massive chunks out of human beings and leave them for dead (or having to use adult nappies for the rest of their life breathing through straws, etc) they are simply mistaking us for seals, and completely innocent of any crime. Yet I fear my trust in shark motives and ethics may be slightly misplaced, possibly More

What is to be a real man?

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What is to be a real man? mazhIma several key traits to a real man. Several More