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A Big Thank You

I hope I have said thank you for wishing me a Happy Birthday, but is good just to say “Thank You” for no reason, just perhaps for being a friend, just perhaps just being there, just perhaps just knowing you. Today I have to say thank you to my very good friend Jill Lawday, a […]

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Rotary Club KOT

Interview Skills

Being a member of The Kingston upon Thames Rotary Club gives me great pleasure and enjoyment. The idea of Service above Self, being able to give back to the community, to other people, what I have in my portfolio of life experience gives me great joy. Today, I had the honour to be asked to […]

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What a man is for

Today I feel like a real man, a man who is meant to be what a man is to do. For over ten years we have lived in a flat in Kingston upon Thames in the UK, and for ten years we have owned a house in Bukit Mertajam in Malaysia. For over ten years […]

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Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all no matter where you are. Although I have not put up any Christmas decorations, nor erected up a Christmas tree, it has been a period of time where I have entered the Christmas Spirit. I have been to Christmas meals, where people of many faiths and beliefs celebrated this special time. I […]

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Santa joins the SHH (Special half Hour) Club

Santa Claus wears the Richard Bacon, BBC Radio 5 Live, Special Half Hour (SHH) badge in Kingston upon Thames. As part of the annual charity collection by the Rotary Club of Kingston upon Thames, members raise a Christmas Tree and dress-up as Father Christmas. It was my time as Father Christmas today, and it was an […]

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Getting the festive spirit

For a number of years now, I have been providing training in many countries around the world, where there are different cultures, beliefs, and religions. Being born a Christian, the Muslim country of Saudi Arabia was an especially interesting experience, which taught me to be tolerant to other peoples beliefs, as in the 1980’s when […]

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As one door closes another opens, Woolworths and usefulshopp

There is an English saying that says, “as one door closes another opens“. In the town center or market square in Kingston upon Thames there are many shops, some small and some large. One of these shops is Borders, and as in the articles Relationships change – Borders and Yes it is true, they are lost to […]

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Yes it is true, they are lost to me

Yes it is true, my “local” favorite bookshop will be closing. Braving the rather rare English inclement weather today, I again faced the cold darkness of the heavy clouds, and walked down to the town center of Kingston upon Thames to get my exercise. Even though it was just after lunch, the cars had their […]

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My Job Talk to Rotary International Club

It was a privilage to be able to give a talk today to Kingston upon Thames Rotary Club about the work I do around the world, giving training in NLP, Hypnosis, Stage Hypnosis, phobia cures, PhotoReading, Mind Maps and Memory techniques. Kingston upon Thames Rotary Club

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PhotoReading and Mind Maps in Milan Italy

I am now back in a raining Kingston upon Thames in England after four days in Milano, Italy, giving a PhotoReading and Mind Maps course. Held in the Concorde Hotel we had twenty nine participants in a warm, sunny, strangely shaped long room, which added to the warm and friendly atmosphere. PhotoReading and Mind Mapping, […]