Blind

by Paul Parry | Feb 28, 2019 | 0 comments

Sometimes the best way to learn something is to simply jump in, get started, make mistakes, then correct them and try again. In other words, “Ready, fire, aim.” Go in blind and feel your way through. And I’ve found it helps you if you help someone...

Light My Fire

by Paul Parry | Feb 27, 2019 | 0 comments

I started to organise the book yesterday: I thought about the a message, idea, or story that I want to share Gathered much of the information I already have that’s ready and waiting Organised my material in a Word doc On that first point, thinking about the...

Life’s What You Make It

by Paul Parry | Feb 26, 2019 | 0 comments

When I was 14, in 1986, I loved Life’s What You Make It by Talk Talk. So it’s sad to hear of the death today of Mark Hollis, the band’s co-founder, lead singer and principal songwriter. “Life’s what you make it.” “The more you...

Police & Thieves

by Paul Parry | Feb 25, 2019 | 0 comments

Two ways that community policing has changed in recent years: Email: I get crime updates from Hertfordshire Constabulary and even though they sound like they’re copied and pasted straight out of the investigating officer’s notebook, I think they’re a...

Get Your Shirt

by Paul Parry | Feb 24, 2019 | 0 comments

Kids need to understand their financial world and have three places where they can learn about it: at home, at school and online. Sadly, it seems that financial education in UK schools is absent. As well as how to make money, kids should be shown how they can save...