Corinne Bailey Rae

OK I will be honest and thought, “yeah, yeah..new artist, people getting excited again and forget about her when her next albumcomes out”, and then I bought the album for wifey for mother’s day last week.
OK. wow! Do you really want to know why I think she is so great. Miss Rae has a clean, [...]

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March Dinner

Well had a great night last night. Each month my wife and I organise a dinner for ten to twelve professionals and business owners to come together, have great food and drink, talk shop and most importantly have fun. This month’s CONNECT! dinner brought some new and familiar faces to the Ciao Bella restaurant in [...]

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Being Magnificent

Spoke last Friday to a group of Year 11 students in Broxbourne. Apparently they had told their headmaster that after a previous speech they wanted me back to speak to them again. I was quite chuffed.
We went through a number of points from my keynote “Being Magnificent” and it was great to have a good [...]

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Take Five: Going to St Ives

With my eyes fixed on the goal I push on to secure the prize of God’s heavenward call in Christ Jesus.Phil 3:14 (WEY)
As I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives, Each wife had seven sacks, each sack had seven cats, Each cat had seven kits: kits, cats, sacks and [...]

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It Breaks My Heart

The story of the six youths who raped and murdered a young lady in Reading both angers and breaks my heart.
Forgetting the pandering to racial sterotypes that will underline such a cause, what frightens me most is what kind of value system could these guys be harbouring to commit such a crime? Who were there [...]

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Politics: I told you so

I hate to say it….but I told you so!The Iraquis did want to get rid of Saddam, but they did not want to replace him with a US led administration.
Different values. Different outlook. Different desires. But nooo…….No one listens to me!!

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The Perfect CV

I have a book with this title in my library.Personally I hate template CVs and believe that much effort should be placed into how one constructs a CV.
A few weeks back I was running a workshop for a colleague at a London University and it amazes me that so many people are still horrendous at [...]

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Education: The Grammar Thing

So yesterday I thought I would do the “good Dad” thing and help me eldest with her English homework. She had to construct some sentences using at least one adjective and an adverb.
So having taught supplementary English in the past I thought I am still on top of my game. Here we go, who needs [...]

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A New Reformation

The original Reformation was kicked off with Martin Luther apparently posting his 95 theses on the Wittenburg door in Germany. Ticked off with the abuse contained in the sale of indulgences tradition would have it that his posting and the advent of print caused a reformation within the Roman Catholic church, in modern terms referred [...]

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Take Five : Amazing Grace

What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him [...]

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