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Back in the 1960’s, it cost the USA $25 billion for the Apollo space programme, the pinnacle of which was the first manned landing on 20 July 1969. 6 hours later Armstrong stepped on to the surface. Most of us … Continue reading →

Sunbank Wood is a very ancient woodland just a few miles from home, adjacent to The River Bollin valley and close to Manchester Airport (much in the news today). This morning I enjoyed running through at about 07:00 and captured … Continue reading →

August in Cheshire and the farmers are busy bringing in the crops. In his famous book “The 7 habits of highly effective people”, Stephen Covey talks about “harvest time” – when you drop everything to complete a project because it’s … Continue reading →

Spotted at the south end of Park Lane this morning. It occurs to me that there is nothing clever about this. We all spend far too much of our time trying to balance the “elephants in the room” in the … Continue reading →

The gift of the true creative is to imagine a work from that which is not yet there and then to leave the interpretation of the piece to the observer. In this case, two blocks of wood are transformed into … Continue reading →

Ok so here’s the deal. 20 days starting at midnight tonight and ending on Saturday 16th August. De-Tox. No to: tea and coffee alcohol sugar dairy products pasta bread potato rice Yes to: meat, fish, fowl, eggs fruit, nuts (no … Continue reading →

Its been a long time since I visited our village post office in Hale, Cheshire. I’d forgotten that, to post a large letter, you will have to queue behind a line of elderly people struggling to battler their way through … Continue reading →

I’ve been thinking about integrity a lot recently. I’m not sure whether its my age, my business disasters in 2012/13, my experiences on The Island with Bear Grylls, my knock on the head – or what? Life is undoubtedly good … Continue reading →

A few days ago I published a blog post on The Uncompromised Business and, in my haste, completely forgot to give attribution to my good friend and sometimes client Ron Renaud, business and personal coach from the USA. My Skype … Continue reading →