It was recorded inside a caravan at Talacre on the north Wales coast. I was on holiday and that’s the clue to the heading.

We are all used to the phrase ‘comfort zone’ and, in particular, the importance of stretching ourselves outside of it.

Apart from ‘things’ that are contagious, so are attitudes. Negative people spread negativity and positive people spread positivity. That’s the bottom line. Choose the latter.

We all go through difficult periods in life for a whole range of reasons.

If a door is open and it’s the right thing to do, of course, walk through it now.

Do you want to be successful? Work hard. Although life is rarely simple and straightforward, that’s the answer.

We’ve heard – and maybe used ourselves – the expression that ‘time heals’.

It hasn’t always been like that though and the reality is that we still need to be patient regarding many things. That’s why the saying that, ‘patience is a virtue’, is as real today as it’s ever been. In many ways, even more so.

The first one, as you can see from the heading, is an encouragement for those of us who are no longer ‘spring chickens’, as they say. To enforce the practicality of the message, I recorded it yesterday evening just before I went to play football.

While Storm Chandra manifested itself with 40 mph+ winds and driving rain, the birds were singing as if it were the height of summer. Whatever was going on around them them was of no concern. They just carried on doing their thing.