Life's too short
Life's too short to stuff a mushroom .... Said Shirley Conran, author of "Superwoman", way back in the 1970's. We seem to think that juggling work and home life is a relatively new concept but as this book reveals, it's most definitely not. I got thinking about the phrase "life's too short" following a recent, and rather messy it has to be said, night out with the girls. The next morning as the fog started to lift, I checked my phone and there it was in all its glory, my Facebook post declaring "I'm going to Ibiza for my 50th next year, who's coming?!" What the *&%! Ok, what now? Do I just ignore it, pretend it never happened and hope that no-one mentions it ever again. Yeah right, as I scrolled down the comments, it seemed that my friends were actually quite keen, some of which had not been there on the night out and were fully compos mentis. I sat pondering for a while and that little phrase "life's...