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YOU MAKE AN OLD MAN VERY HAPPY

9 Mar 2019 | Football

This is code for saying that I kicked opponents and demonstrated toughness and gamesmanship. My colleagues liked it and to be honest, I enjoyed their plaudits.

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Me, me, me.

1 Mar 2019 | Reflections

I went backstage after the performance I was shocked at how small my friend’s dressing corner was in comparison to the established star’s room. We went to the actors’ bar

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Duck Billed Platitudes

31 Dec 2018 | Coaching

ver the last year I have faced several challenges in business but have come through them. My colleagues and I have achieved this by being dogged, persistent, flexible and above all, client centred. We have also reminded ourselves that rules are there to be adhered to only as far as the letter is concerned and that their spirit is not so important

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Evaluation across the Nation (thin end of a fat wedge)

23 Nov 2018 | Education

I am an exam marker. A question I am currently marking asks students to describe how a department store’s customer service standards should be set to ensure that they are maintained. The learners are meant to answer that the standards have to be measureable so that...

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Run to and run from but don’t run there.

29 Oct 2018 | Travel

I was in a conversation with a friend who told me that he has taken to thinking about blue skies. This is not a re-hash of noughties’ blue sky thinking or any other management school hyperbole but is something literal

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I can remember standing by the wall

5 Oct 2018 | Reflections

The sheer old age of the massive painted wall struck me much more than the work itself.

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Shift of a glance (Eagle’s view)

21 Aug 2018 | Travel

The night time, heralded by the quick sinking of the sun behind the western ranges brings a sharp coolness that dovetails into cold at which point the moths break out and flap towards the lights when the stillness of the evening gets too complacent.
Looking to the south one can see the continuing summer of Italy

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The loneliness of the long distance training deliverer (and other stories)

26 Jul 2018 | Education

I was not engaging with them and this was my fault. I can usually break through barriers but sometimes the frustration gets a grip and once my mood drops it’s hard to ‘keep the dressing room’.

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{im}perfect is as good as it gets

26 May 2018 | Mental Health

I was picked up in a seedy bar by a dominatrix called Madame Stoicism. In no time at all she signed me up and ever since then I’ve been an almost committed

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