As one gets older, one becomes increasingly aggravated by the smallest of things. Maybe it’s the queue in the supermarket, the inevitable delays to the trains in the winter or those people who, having spent hours waiting in line at airport security, only realise when they arrive at the X-ray machine that they’re required to [...]

”Be Prepared” Everybody knows the motto, which is associated with the founder of the boy-scout movement, Robert Baden-Powell. In Baden-Powell’s own words this motto focuses on: “Be Prepared in Mind by having disciplined yourself to be obedient to every order, and also by having thought out beforehand any accident or situation that might occur, so [...]