Death Row Dinners
http://redlionhunningham.co.uk/death-row-dinners/ We enjoyed a hangover-salving Sunday lunch at The Red Lion in Hunningham yesterday. I always enjoy eating there. There’s very little room for improvement in my book. Which leads me to the Death Row Dinners cards on each table – main function: to ask for feedback – subsidiary function: prize draw to win your … Read more
Happy 60th Birthday Mum
Some of the things that I love about you – because I don’t tell you enough… xxx
Why Doesn’t Essex have a Destination Food Festival?
Inspired by this weekend’s visit to Ludlow Food Festival (which was brilliant), I was thinking that (my native) Essex should have a destination festival at least as big. There’s enough quality food. The countryside is just as beautiful, but in a different way. It’s very accessible. What’s stopping it? Off the top of my head it … Read more
Advanced Subsidiary GCE Unit – Applied Business
I have just refound the OCR A-Level paper in which my name is used – thanks to Mrs Parkes. It still makes me giggle. A wide range of friends have been name-checked! Unit 4: The Impact of Customer Service ‘However, after a few weeks it was evident that Adam’s administrative and interpersonal skills left a … Read more
Very Slow of Me
Why, oh why, oh why, oh why (to quote Points of View) did it take me this long to realise that there’d be a WordPress app for my phone? How very slow of me. You can expect a lot more drivel from me now. And a bit of a rethink on what I blog, what … Read more
Who do you want to work for?
Recently it struck me that we have been selling in a presentation about values creation wrongly. The main body is fine – all about linking values and behaviours and perception – and we’ve been getting there in the end. But we’ve been starting on the wrong foot by showing a number of logos and asking … Read more
Turning Over a New Leaf
Right, this is my declaration that I’m disinterring my blogging mojo. It’s time to come back. There’s a lot in my head – which it would benefit me to articulate in words (it may not benefit you much though!). Future topics are likely to include: SharePoint Vs Intranet How to evaluate team briefing More on … Read more
Asleep – Yeah right
Writing about http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/8104519.stm A linguistics professor was lecturing to her class one day. “In English,” she said, “A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative.” A voice from the back … Read more
Walking Down the Aisle
A true story. A relative of Himself is a vicar at a local church. The church doors open. The bride is ready. The organ strikes up and plays: Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen Robin Hood, Robin Hood, with his band of men Feared by the bad, loved by the good Robin Hood, … Read more
My Father’s Eyes are Blue – Coventry Literature Festival
Writing about – http://www.spaghettigazetti.com/2009/03/local-lad-done-good.html Local poet Anthony Owen will be on his home turf when he appears at the Third Coventry International Festival Of Literature at the Belgrade Theatre in May. The Coventry Literature Festival is unique among UK literature festivals due to its focus on community events, with public writing workshops, children’s events and … Read more
