A scene seldom seen

The other Saturday, while waiting at a No. 9 Warrington bus stop at Lyons Lane ( on the way into Manchester via Warrington Central), I got into conversation with a mum and her 11 tear old son who was sitting on the kerb, facing the road. At some stage during the...

What is this phenomenon called ADHD?

  There at least three answers: It is a ‘medical condition, first described in symptom terms in 1798 by the Scottish physician Sir Alexander Crichton as “the incapacity of attending with a necessary degree of constancy to any one object.” In 1902, the...

Some will always misunderstand you

 “Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you.”  Karlo Popper (1976) Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography