Category: Articles

  • OnTheBeach – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

    “Let your heart be light. From now on, our troubles will be out of sight.” So sang Judy Garland in 1944. 64 years later, can you imagine a Merry Little Christmas? Can you imagine your troubles being miles away? Or is Christmas going to be just another stressor on a long list of stressors? Many…

  • OnTheBeach – The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men

    So, I went Christmas shopping and got my car written off. Hmm…not exactly the outcome I was planning for! Happily, no one was hurt…except my poor car. Interestingly, it brought about a couple of those days where nothing goes quite to plan – even the simplest thing like watching a DVD ended up being an…

  • Why Should You Be Able to Do Something You’ve Never Done Before?

    It’s interesting to me how often I have conversations with people that go along these lines – “oh I could never do that thing you do, I’m rubbish at (whatever it is) and you’re so good” to which I invariably reply “Well, I couldn’t do it either when I first started”. Competence in anything –…

  • OnTheBeach – Share Your Gift

    We all have gifts that we can share with the world, and one of the greatest tragedies is that we don’t. We keep ourselves small, we are self-deprecating and lack 100% self belief – and the world loses. You think I’m exaggerating? Well, let’s forget about this ‘just’ being about you for a minute, and…

  • OnTheBeach – Will This Still Matter Tomorrow?

    A note from Donna Since the gig I went to last Tuesday, my throat has been playing up and my voice has run the range between Minnie Mouse and that woman with a husky, low, smoker’s voice off Coronation Street of 20 years ago – can’t remember her name! I was listening to the messages…

  • OnTheBeach – A Shining Beacon of Light

    A note from Donna Brrrrrr…Well, I can now feel November approaching in the air – the good news is that I am writing this sat beside a roaring fire and I don’t have to go back outside today. I’m sure I was a bear (or some other hibernating creature) in a previous life! I’m making…

  • OnTheBeach – Help! I Need Somebody

    A note from Donna Not for the first time, I needed to read what I wrote this week! It is the anniversary of my uncle’s death today…and my friend reminded me that I mustn’t be down on my own – that she’d help me!! Thanks mate. xxx Help! I need somebody If you are anything…

  • OnTheBeach – Getting Away From It All

    A note from Donna Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, I thought I had written, saved, and scheduled my newsletter for today long ago. Sadly I was completely and utterly mistaken! So this is being hastily written on a Sunday evening while watching Stephen Fry drive a black cab around the USA… So I’ll…

  • OnTheBeach – Sensationalise Your Life!

    A note from Donna I’d like to put in a note of gratitude this week for all the people who were very lovely and helpful when my car window got put through – my neighbours, friends, relatives, glass replacement bods, and the police. Everyone was really lovely – and in the case of the glass…

  • OnTheBeach – Life Happens For You, Not To You

    A note from Donna Apologies for the late delivery of this week’s newsletter – you’ll understand when you read today’s article. I hope you will also understand that I am too shattered to put much of a note in this week! Life Happens For You, Not To You In one of those “couldn’t make it…