Friday, March 18, 2005
The Friday Pipe
I don't think of myself as a creature of habit. My Mum's dog, Penny, is a creature of habit. She does the same thing every time she gets a given stimulus. For example, when I go and visit, and bend down to greet her, she collapses onto her side, and then rolls over onto her back, legs akimbo, to get...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
An 18-Hour Day, Followed by a 19-Hour Day, With 3 Hours Sleep In Between!!!
Fair readers, I have been neglecting you for ten whole days now, for which I offer a thousand apologies. I've been a bit busy. You may or may not be aware that I wear several hats in my working life. I run The Property Man site; I'm a writer of books - mainly about property investment; and I'm a...
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Sunday, March 6, 2005
The Crazy Carlisle Curse
Way back in the late 1990s, when The Milennium was occupying the thoughts of everyone from computer programmers and city fathers to armageddonists and survivalists, the great and the good who ran Carlise, a pretty little city a couple of hours due west of here in Cumbria, decided to commission a...
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Thursday, March 3, 2005
Define 'Shed-Loads'
I have shed-loads of work on at the moment, so I'm only stopping in here for a quick post and then I'm gone again, at least for the rest of the day. Define shed-loads for us Damon, why don't you? Well, I am now one of two people planning, organising and facilitating a corporate event for 250 people...
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Wednesday, February 23, 2005
WHAT IS IT WITH POSH HOTELS??
I've been working up in Edinburgh for a couple of days, helping to run a team development workshop, and the client put the three of us up in a very fine hotel called The Scotsman, just behind Waverley Station. It's called The Scotsman because the building is the original base for the newspaper of...
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Sunday, February 20, 2005
It's a Winter Wonderland!
We woke up early this morning to a soft, white blanket across the street and the gardens outside. It looks like it's been snowing steadily for the last couple of hours, and it's lying in fluffy formation, muffling sound and turning our ordinary road into a Christmas card image. So it's probably not...
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Tuesday, February 15, 2005
A Celebration of Procrastination
My good friend H may not have the dictionary definition of procrastination in his head (to put off an action until later; to delay) but he is the living epitome of the word. In the autumn of last year he began a college course on environmental science. He has a deep, practical interest in the...
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Sunday, February 13, 2005
Deeds, Not Words
I went for a walk yesterday in my favourite graveyeard in these parts. I felt I'd barely been outside for days, instead sitting here in front of my computer, writing, creating, building a new business and, of course, blogging. That's all fine, but I'll end up agraphobic if I rarely step beyond my...
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Friday, February 11, 2005
Arthur Miller Dies
The creator of 'The Crucible' and 'Death of a Salesman' has died. It's certain that more than one of his plays is showing on stage in more than one place in the world this very night. He spent five years married to Ms. Monroe, and leaves a beautiful young wife behind. Respect and love to the...
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Wednesday, February 9, 2005
A Mixed Reception
It took me four hours to get back from London today, which is not at all bad. However, I've come home to a mixed reception. T wasn't here. There was a note, saying she was lunching with a friend, and would be back before she went off to work in the pub this evening. By the time she did get back, I...
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