We all like taking risks to a certain degree. While I consider myself relatively risk-averse, I occasional can roll the dice. Now before I continue, I probably have to confess this is purely down to prehistoric masculinity. For as long as I have been able to drive, I have found the need to refuel a […]
King Of The Road
For many years I was a devout fan of the trusted TomTom. Just remember this was in the late 1990s when SatNav was a completely new product range and smartphones did not truly exist in their current form. When I went over to Germany for our lads weekend to the Nurburgring, we spent a good […]
The Crowd Is Roaring
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s. A line from the hypothetical commencement speech, “Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young”. You may know it better as the Baz Luhrman song, “Everybody’s Free to Wear Sunscreen“. This line resided with me this week in particular when I was thankful for many of […]
Loose Change
While I expect nothing less from my peers, I do expect a Vice President to conduct themselves more becoming of their seniority within the organisation. To view all the other office pranks I have been subjected to in my relative short career, they are all tagged with office prank. The dossier for HR grows larger with […]
A Positive Influence
In my humble opinion, everybody should have a blog! I suppose you could consider this the contemporary equivalent that everybody should write a novel. While the barriers to getting a book written and published have reduced in recent times, it is still far easier to setup a free blog and be up and running within […]
Start Spreading The News
“Long overdue”, the words of my boss’s boss on feedback from my trip to the East Coast this week. Further confirmation (if it was ever needed) that meeting my colleagues at our corporate ‘mothership’ in Islandia, Long Island, should have happened a while ago. Travelling on business may sound glamorous but as I have to […]
Be Yourself No Matter What They Say
In 1995 I was intrigued by the launch advert for the new Rover 200. You may remember the advert as it transplanted this quintessential English British car (built just outside Birmingham) to New York. I love the idea of the advert but even more so the soundtrack. Sting’s – Englishman In New York. In reality, […]
Destination Unknown
Between having two beautiful children, a full time job and running a detailing business at the weekend – I am surprised that my friend Pav has been able to start his own international airline. A regular flight from Heathrow Terminal 1 to Jacksonville International Florida.
When The World Is Not Enough
We all the entitled to change our minds. I did not believe, that after a mere one hundred and thirteen days, when I posted a blog centred around new music I would be, so soon, revisiting the topic. The August Bank Holiday is the last hurrah of the British Summer, the final long weekend before […]
28 Weeks Later
This blog post is over five months in the making and follows in the illustrious history of my personal car ownership. The Nightmare Before Christmas is a companion post and recommended reading before proceeding any further. I am a car person. This is stating the obvious but to the uninitiated, the evidence is across my […]