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I suppose it depends on your business, but the last couple of days I’m just beginning to detect that thoughts of Santa are beginning to envelop the nation. It’s always about now that we are beginning to wind down. The first week of December, I think it’s...

11 December, 2013

If you’ve decided to outsource your public relations work I wonder how you went about it? Did you Google “PR agencies”? Perhaps you visited a couple of swish websites, looked up their credentials, then shortlisted a few based on first impressions? Then, taken in by groovy offices...

06 December, 2013

Before any of you post another comment on Facebook, Twitter, Linked In etc, I urge you to read this tale, which highlights just how dangerous not being totally switched on when you’re posting can be. It is a storm in which I’ve been placed in the...

08 November, 2013

There is a saying content is king when it comes to pushing out messages online. By that what’s meant is we are busy people so make every word count and grab em by the throat with what you have to say. Now I have to agree. That...

17 October, 2013

There are times when national newspapers get it wrong, but I must admit the past couple of days I have sat almost in open-mouthed astonishment as the Daily Mail drags its reputation through the mud. The old saying goes a stitch in time saves nine- in...

02 October, 2013

Like most of us I have a never ending to do list that just seems to get longer. I doubt you’re any different in this cash rich time poor society of ours. However, I feel compelled to tell you of a solution, which if you follow...

26 September, 2013

‘Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience,’ said one of the greatest philosophers of all time Ralph Waldo Emerson. We have also heard that patience is a virtue, but it is something in short supply in an age where material stuff has never been...

13 September, 2013

Recently a BBC poll showed the Germans to be the most admired nation on the planet. Last night’s Make Me a German on BBC2 will only have cemented that notion amongst us, one of its greatest foes. It was an hour long programme where a husband and...

07 August, 2013

David Cameron is looking at porn, purely for research purposes of course. Ok, we can all smile and talk in a nudge nudge wink wink way about his plans to block sexual content from us unless we opt in, but his announcement today will certainly start...

22 July, 2013

Shops have sold out of barbecues, and paddling pool sales are up 800 per cent on last year, and meanwhile the local A and Es are treating gazillions for sunburn and heat exhaustion. No doubt these are some of the headlines you have been reading about...

16 July, 2013