by Nicola Manasseh | Jan 29, 2025 | Newsletter
I’ve been down a TV rabbit hole. After 2 or 3 hours, I said to myself okay this is manageable. What’s the worst – 8 or 10 hours of obsessive viewing? I’d say that I know discipline. I can make myself go to bed early when I need to, can sometimes be in the gym...
by Nicola Manasseh | Dec 31, 2024 | Newsletter
10.15am: I’m thrilled that I’ve slept ten hours and happily make my get-the-day-on tea. I’ve no mini Christmas tree this year but I have brought the outside in with a wreath I made in a workshop at St Peter’s, Belsize Square. Three presents are waiting on my new...
by Nicola Manasseh | Dec 20, 2024 | Newsletter
The Banks children give their grumpy father an advertisement for their ideal nanny in the film Mary Poppins. He then tears up the note and puts the pieces in the fireplace and they travel up the chimney to magically reach Mary Poppins who arrives to the Banks’ home a...
by Nicola Manasseh | Nov 23, 2024 | Newsletter
When it comes to karma, what’s not to believe? This Sanskrit word which literally means ‘action’ refers to the cause and effect between what people do and consequences. In Christianity this moral concept is expressed in the well-known assumption – As you sow, so...
by Nicola Manasseh | Oct 21, 2024 | Newsletter
Recently I went to synagogue to observe the Jewish high holy day called Yom Kippur. This is the day when traditionally people fast and stop all activities to think about the past year and pray to God to forgive them for whatever actions they have done which harmed...
