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Snow comes to the UK

I have been back in the UK now for seven days, leaving Malaysia on Chinese New Years day, the Year of the Ox. My annual tax return had to be submitted by the 31st January, and I had meetings to attend, so I left the high temperatures and humidity, for the cold winter weather of […]

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Happy New Year

A Happy New Year, I hope 2009 will be the first of the best years of your life. Some hours ago, as the we entered 2009 here in Malaysia, it was nothing different, many people had gone to bed, the change of the year paid little significance to the people around me. It is the Chinese […]

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Nature in its raw – Snails Mating

By taking time, and looking about, allowing what we would not normally see, we will learn so much more. Dr. Win Wenger calls it Side Bands. (click to read article). Stopping and notice noticing the small signals that often pass us by. Visit Project Renaissance, Malcolm Gladwell in his book “blink writes about our senses which are […]

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Being in the right place at the right time

I seem to have some knack of being in the right place at the right time, not all the time, but often enough for me to take notice. Many years ago, after years of working for computer manufacturers and end users, I was ready to leave the computer industry, to try something new. I had […]

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Singapore Airlines A380

Last week had been quite busy with meetings, but I had no courses to give or clients booked from now until Christmas.My plans had been squashed, as courses had been canceled, and people I had asked to be with me had not answered my requests, so rather than sit by myself in Norbiton Hall, Kingston upon […]

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Beauty is there

Although Nobody loves me, is it only because I have not opened my eyes and looked around me.I have only just noticed some flowers in the apartment here in Norbiton Hall, Kingston upon Thames.Yes I knew they were there, but I had not taken time to look at them, to admire the beauty.I know them as […]

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The shippers arrive

Today the shippers arrived to pack and ship household goods to Malaysia. They say there are times in life which are highly stressful. Moving jobs, marriage, divorce, loosing a loved one, death and moving home. I am highly stressed. Friday coming I start a training tour, giving courses in Turkey, Bahrain, Italy, which will last […]

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Fags End

In recent years, the UK as with other countries, have introduced strict no smoking laws. Gone are the days when I sat in a restaurant, and a nearby smokers smoke drifted across my face. Gone are the days I went into a bar and came out after an evening enjoying myself with colleagues or friends […]

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Local history

Whilst researching information about the British World War 2 (WWII) fighter aircraft, the Supermarine Spitfire, I became aware that there was little information about the other fighter plane of that time the Hawker Hurricane. It seems that the Spitfire has all the limelight. I needed to find information about the Spitfire initially, so I purchased […]

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Where has my school gone?

I was searching around or surfing the internet and came across an old favourite Google Earth. (click to download). Google Earth maps the earth with images obtained from satellites, aerial imagery and what is known as geographic information system (GIS), or 3D images. You are presented with the Earth as a globe, and zoom into a particular […]