Dressed Rehearsals

As sad as it may be, negotiation is most effective when both parties clearly understand the size of the Rottweiler tied to each other’s clothesline. It’s how we’ve maintained relative world peace for…

Finding Barney

As the kids have grown up and become aware of moments in our country’s history, they’ve asked about things at different times. One is the 1981 Springbok tour…

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A gift in the chaos

The other day I was chatting to my brother-in-law, who lives in Florida and is always intrigued by the differences (and similarities) between the world’s most…

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The focused vs the floundering 

Years ago, I was involved in organising fund-raising events, held here in Thames, called Cycle for Life. Once a year for three consecutive years, teams rode…

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Binge blocked

In the late 1990s, I was an innocent young thing, oblivious to most of the harsher realities of life and generally shielded from the reckless, hedonistic…

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