WHAT GRANDAD SAID Listening to the radio a few days ago – Talk Sport pm weekday show – I can recommend – to my male readers, anyway. Lots of listener phone ins on specific topics, with a prize for…
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27/03 You are as deep as what is carved into you. Courtesy K. D. Lang
How Not to Sell Anything Table of Contents Sales and marketing. 1 Jargon or Cliches. 1 The best of American marketing-speak. 3 Sales and marketing In my time as a college lecturer, specialising in international trade – I did countless…
The Bricklayer’s Tale Respected sir, when I got to the top of the building, I found that the hurricane had knocked down some bricks off the top. So, I rigged up a beam, with a pulley, at the…
The Stolen Steering Wheel My wife, Jean, had relatives in Canada – an aunty Gladys and uncle Walter, who had emigrated when she was very young and two married cousins -see ‘The Three Musketeers’. She kept in touch…
Built in 1897 and still on Sauchiehall Street to this day, glorying in its reputation as ‘the comic’s graveyard’ – though the crowd did not discriminate and made life difficult for all types of acts, irrespective of the status of…
South Africa – Beautiful Country – but … Part 1. Table of Contents My Experiences 1 1 The Cape of Good Hope 1 The cape 2 My Experiences Must be over thirty years since my wife and I decided on…
Following my wife and I’s first (and last) holiday to South Africa – my next connection was on a professional basis. I was, from the late nineties, the Director of Education of the UK Institute of Export IoE) – a…
Good Samaritan No.1 From my mate Jean Whilst I was in-line at the checkout in a large supermarket (which begins with ‘A’), an old lady in front of me (well, I say ‘old’, she was about the same age…