Something that’s baffled me since moving out of London, is the restaurants. I love a good restaurant, and when you combine that with not enjoying cooking, it’s very easy to slip into eating a lot of takeaways or meals out. Unsurprisingly, there just aren’t as many restaurants where we are now. The …
Influence
Have you read the book Influence by Robert Cialdini? If not then you should. It’s always sitting on my desk, and I occasionally flick through it. Without fail, every time I flick through it, there’s something that jumps out at me, something that I just have to go and try. I opened …
Pert Boobs
It was Holly’s birthday over the weekend and, being pregnant, she asked me for some pyjamas and nursing nighties. No problem, I’d prepared myself for a day of walking around shops to find the right thing. But lady fortune smiled down on me, because Holly found exactly what she wanted on that …
Shifting the assholes from the gutter
You know when you’ve written a good email, because all the assholes come out of the gutter. My email about photos on LinkedIn yesterday, seemed to set them off, and my inbox got a handful of emails like: “F**k off you f**ktard” These were surrounded by hundreds of responses from the folk …
I’ve got twenty one seconds to go
Do you remember that song from the So Solid Crew? I don’t know if they made it over to the US, but for a while, over ten years ago, they were huge in the UK. Their biggest song was called 21 Seconds, and it certainly gave a feeling of urgency. Luckily for …