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Do lazy days make you feel rested or unproductive? UNPRODUCTIVE, without any question of doubt unless planned. I rarely have the luxury of planned lazy days, so unplanned days leave me thinking about what I could or should have done, or what I could or should be doing! 🤔😩 The only consolation, which does notContinue reading

How I choose the Music 🎶🎼🎵

by Ryan Clement A FRIEND of mine asked me yesterday, how do I choose the music for my videos? After a little – not long – reflection, I told her it was instinctive. I just feel what is right for me, and simply add it. LIKE MANY OF US, I love music. I mentioned inContinue reading “How I choose the Music 🎶🎼🎵”

Valencia, Spain 🇪🇸

Oceanogràfic 🌊🐢🐠🐬🐳🐧🌊

by Ryan Clement I HAVE VISITED many SeaWorlds and similar places before. But none compares to Oceanogràfic in Valencia. It was informative and educational, as well as amazing. It was another warm day in Spain’s third largest city, so the feeling of being at or around the sea gave me a sensory cooling effect inContinue reading “Oceanogràfic 🌊🐢🐠🐬🐳🐧🌊”

10 October 1996

by Ryan Clement 32 YEARS AGO, I decided to change my career from being a quantity surveyor to being a barrister. After reading law for 2 years, followed by 1 year at Bar School in London, I was Called to the Bar on the anniversary of today, 29 years ago. ON THE WHOLE, it hasContinue reading “10 October 1996”

Central Market

by Ryan Clement I DON’T HAVE fond memories of markets and marketplaces because I had to pull the shopping trolley on a Saturday morning along North End Road, Fulham, London. MY LATE MOTHER would insist I transported our food in the checkered brown cloth trolley with which I dreaded being seen with by any ofContinue reading “Central Market”

Holy Grail

by Ryan Clement “Then he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, ‘Drink from it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant…’” Matthew 26:27-28 MANY MANY YEARS AGO, I was in Rome over the Easter period. We arrived on Good Friday. Our hotelContinue reading “Holy Grail”

Coexistence!

by Ryan Clement IT’S OFFICIAL! Coexistence of the old and the new can and does work. I already knew that, of course, but needed a title for the short series of blogs. I HAVE HAD THE PLEASURE of visiting Rome many years ago but, unlike good friends, A. and S., not Athens where they visitedContinue reading “Coexistence!”

Is Diversity important in the workplace?

by Ryan Clement NOT EVERYONE buys into diversity and inclusion, and not everyone is sold on it either. There is much discussion about its or their benefits in the current political climate; I shall rest that there. It may not be everyone’s cup of tea 🫖 but some may ask, is it time to wake up 😴Continue reading “Is Diversity important in the workplace?”

You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know!

What would your life be like without music? THERE ARE TWO WAYS to approach this question. One is there has never been music, so it never existed, in which case you don’t know what you don’t know, so you can’t miss it or conceive what it would be like without something you can’t conceive inContinue reading “You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know!”