Bit of a frustrating week. My bulletin was 3 weeks late going out due to server problems so the June issue had to be renamed July. Then, what I thought was a harmless reminder of an obscure issue (Places of Worship item if you must know), elicited a whol… more »

Whether we like it or not it's a powerful communications tool and we have to reckon on it. I talked to someone over the weekend who had stopped using it; she didn't like the fact that her details were out there for the world (or at least her friends) to… more »

This is one of my all time favourite words. Coined by Horace Walpole, 18th Century writer of fairy tales, it means, 'the gift of being able to make happy and unexpected discoveries by accident'. Let me give you an example: We were in St Peter Port, Guern… more »

I got gently hauled over the coals for encouraging readers to 'stick to the knitting' in my last blog. Knowing the absolute importance of good communications (Don't ever forget the classic line in Cool Hand Luke, 'what we have here is a communication pro… more »

One of the things that irks my long suffering wife is that often I focus so narrowly that I have very little idea of what's going on around me. This came to a head a couple of weeks ago when I found myself on a cruise that went well into the arctic circl… more »