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  • 5 memorable business trips (2)

    5 memorable business trips (2)

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    This is the second in my series of posts about particularly memorable business trips. As with the first (click here) it dates back to pre-email times 2 On my own in the old Yugoslavia It was in the mid to late 80s and I was a Product Marketing Manager with Dow Chemical Europe. I was…

  • 5 memorable business trips (1)

    5 memorable business trips (1)

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    I’ve been fortunate in that I’ve had jobs that have allowed me to travel and taken me to places I’d normally not visit. I’ve always enjoyed the travel part of my job, if you don’t you really should find another job, and every trip gave me positive memories but just a handful were maybe longer…

  • GoSW 2025: five highlights

    GoSW 2025: five highlights

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    Back in 2022 we took a tour of Gardens of North Wales expertly led by Tony Russell (click here for a relevant blog post). It seemed a good idea to repeat it sometime in the South and earlier this month we did. We used the same tour company which used the same guide so we…

  • today’s gratitude list.

    today’s gratitude list.

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    I came across this blog today: https://heardandfelt.wordpress.com/ It’s got some good thought provoking content but I feel I’m being short changed because the author doesn’t tell me much about him/herself. I sense it’s a woman, apologies if I’m wrong, and she introduces the concept of her ‘gratitude list’. Nothing deep or profound about this but…

  • 5 from 50

    5 from 50

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    That’s 5 photographs from 50 years ago. I’ve published two collections of my first two decades of digital photography starting in 2004. As chance would have it I bought my first SLR (single lens reflex) camera in 1974 so I’ve started to see if I can put together similar collections for the 30 years since…

  • Mates

    Mates

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    It seems to be an accepted truism that men don’t make and keep friends like women do. I can relate to that and given that I’m (a) a bit of an introvert, and (b) not inclined to retain contact with people it’s certainly true of me. Today I’ve got lots of people with whom I’m…

  • 5 highlights of 2023

    5 highlights of 2023

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    It’s been a full year but strangely I’ve had difficulty teasing out five particular highlights. However I do have a list even though number five is perhaps a bit of a cop-out. Three good holidays with eight excellent hotels. First my trip to Jordan, then Juni and I had a wet but nonetheless excellent week…

  • Peaks, ports and palazzi: 5 highlights

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    We’ve just come back from a little over a week in north west Italy: Turin and Piemonte, and Genova and its coastline to the east. We didn’t have universally good weather but we didn’t have our programme materially affected and thankfully were spared the heavy rains in Emilio Romanga on 16/17 May 23.

  • 5 details which make a difference: Jordan 2023

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    I’ve just come back from 10 days in Jordan. It was a bucket list trip which enabled me to tick off Petra but Jordan is much more than Petra and I’m glad I went.

  • 5 highlights of 2022

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    It’s been a more normal year and to some extent it’s been business as usual with fewer standout highlights. Here’s a list of five that spring to mind. Family holiday in North Norfolk. We rented a cottage in Thornham and the Bradburies and Jenkinses including Charles coexisted for a week. We enjoyed some good, and…