A few days ago I had to email John Thornhill, my Masterclass tutor. Within 24 hours he had emailed me back. I was impressed and not for the first time. John is a busy man, he has many web sites, runs a couple of coaching courses and has a subscriber list of 50,000 plus. He [...]
A recent comment by Ron Barrett, a fellow Masterclass student, got me thinking. In my last post ‘Notebook Adventures!’ I wrote that I used a notebook to write down any ideas for blog posts or eBooks that came to me anytime of day. Ron said that he would probably use the voice record facility on [...]
Just last week the President of The United States, Barack Obama, appeared on the Jay Leno Show. It’s a late night chat show with celebrities, politicians and occasionally animals, who upstage everybody! Beamed across America and shown in Europe, he was utilising the television medium to put his points of view across in a relaxed [...]
This week local councils in England and Wales have been given a list by the local government association. It’s a list of 100 words that should no longer be used in everyday dealings with the public. Apparently we find these words or phrases too confusing. I think they can be downright funny, maybe dreamed up [...]
A few Summers ago I was digging up weeds in my back garden. I thought these were possibly alien weeds from Mars! I could sink my trowel deep into the soil and yank the weed out roots and everything. A few days later, it was back and had cloned itself, with more of them. As [...]
I’ve been home for over a week now, since I lost my job. I have, though, been busy doing stuff. The weird thing is, where did I find the time to do all this when I had a full time job? My days are full! My teenage daughter is telling me she is bored of [...]
Soon after finishing with my company through redundancy, I have had to ring up for an appointment at my local Job Centre. You do this if you are still unemployed and wish to claim a job seeker’s allowance. The advisor was asking so many questions I felt he was lining me up for a job [...]
You may think that’s a dumb statement, I am out of work but just writing this Blog has made me smile. I hope it works for you too! 1: You survived! You made it through the daily commute, the traffic jams, the near misses, your car is still in one piece and so are you. [...]
If a visit to a supermarket is your idea of hell, you might feel some sympathy for me. I have shopped at my local Tesco six days a week for the last six years. My company pays for lunch for all twenty employees, what a great perk. It’s me that caters to their every whim, [...]
I don’t know the percentages, but I would think that the majority of teenage boys’ bedrooms are no-go areas. I don’t mean everyone in the family, including the cat, are banned from entering the bedroom. But these bedrooms can only to be entered by wearing regulation NATO chemical spill suits! The bedroom door should give [...]
