In January I set a target for the end of September for the completion of a project I had started work on. However targets and actually accomplishing them are two different things. One of the benefits of ageing and having retired is that I am not unduly worried about it, but I do realise how difficult meeting targets must be for people in full time occupations who are trying to progress an online business.

I am way behind schedule for my new project ‘Walks In Tameside’. Originally I thought it would include a maximum of 25 walks but some intensive research on maps means I am now up to 37 walks and hoping to make it a round 40 before it’s completed.

On the first day, she sadly packed her belongings into boxes, crates and suitcases.

On the second day, she had the movers come and collect her things.

On the third day, she sat down for the last time at their beautiful dining-room table. By candle-light; she put on some soft background music, and feasted on a pound of shrimps, a jar of caviar, and a bottle of champagne.

When she’d finished, she went into each and every room and deposited a few half-eaten shrimps dipped in caviar into the hollow center of the curtain rods.

My all time favourite jazz pianist is Teddy Wilson. Theodore Shaw ‘Teddy’ Wilson was born in Austin, Texas in 1912, he had a sophisticated, elegant style of piano playing and played with some of the greatest musicians and singers of the age.

He made some of the best jazz numbers ever recorded with such luminaries as  Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Benny Goodman. Here is an interesting video from the TV series ‘Ken Burns Jazz’ that tells of the racial predujice of an age gone by and how supreme talent won the day.

With so many graduates now employed in mundane, minimum wage jobs, or even unemployed with no prospect of work ahead, is it time for a re-think on the merits of 3 years further education at university and graduating with a mountain of debt?

Some of the most successful people I know have never seen the inside of a university or further education college.