Pack up your Troubles

Pack up your troubles

My Mum was a demure little lady, she probably struggled to be five foot three in the old scale. She used to tell us all, “There’s good stuff in little …

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Roll Up! Roll Up!

The corporate world has created a market unsurpassed by anything we have known before. It’s called by various names and it all amounts to the same thing. Events, Conferences, Expos, …

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Business all Tied Up!

Ties! Striped, plain, coloured, flowery, Disney flavoured or old school. Windsor knots, Prince Albert knots, Kelvin knots, Half Windsors, the Pratt, the Trinity and the Van Wijk, every type of …

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Complex Communities

Just yesterday I waxed lyrical about John F. Kennedy. To my utter astonishment a young lady in her mid twenties  ask, “Who’s he?” Faced with that, I am a little …

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The Invisible People

Overheard at the shopping centre: An old bloke whispering to his elderly wife, “What happened to our sexual relations?” “Don’t know”, she answered, “We haven’t had a Christmas Card from …

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Family Ties

Like most things in my life, I differ from many other people in my feelings about what ‘family’ means. I’ve been lucky, my folks were caring and loving and thankfully …

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