Dr Marshall Rosenberg is the founder of 'Nonviolent Communication' and someone I consider the best communicator I've ever met. Just by developing NVC he elevated himself to near genius status. A woman once came up to him at the end of a seminar and said 'Dr Rosenberg, you're great!' He said 'Thank you, but it would help me more if you explained why you think that.' It's not the way most of us act; most of us would have said 'Thank you' then carried on or talked about something different.

My last blog 'Days when your heart stopped' seemed to touch a chord with people as it has become my most widely read blog and created the most vocal response for which I am extremely grateful. As you sit at a PC tapping away you wonder if anyone will read what you write let alone react to it so I'm really pleased people have been so complimentary. Having re-read the piece myself it struck me that it emphasised the negative, painful, traumatic things that happen to us so I felt it was only right to balance it with a more positive piece. This is it.

One of my favourite tv shows on at the moment is 'Mad Men'. It's a show that seems to have a cult following with many people not knowing it at all. The premise is that it is about a New York ad agency in the early 1960's and it is now in it's third series. Tonight's show was how people reacted when John F Kennedy was shot - I couldn't tell you, I was 9 months old at the time. It is said that everyone from that time remembers where they were when they heard the news. For our generation I guess the JFK moment would be 9/11. Moments that freeze time.

Two years ago I fulfilled my most personal and enjoyable physical challenge when I walked the 86 miles of Hadrian's Wall in 3.5 days over the Easter of 2008. Strictly speaking it was done two years and two weeks ago as Easter was earlier, but the fact that it is Easter now reminded me of the challenge. I didn't complete it alone I had four walking companions and a driver. We just happened to complete the distance during the coldest Easter for 44 years.

Today the clock's went forward. Hallelujah, longer nights and brighter days. Today is a beautiful sunny Sunday; wouldn't you know it snow is being forecast for midweek in certain parts of the British Isles? I was talking to a friend the other day and commented that I have never enjoyed the coming of Spring more. This winter was the coldest, longest, hardest I ever remember, but doesn't that make you appreciate Spring and look forward even more to Summer?