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About 10 or 15 years ago I said to my wife that I could not understand why the government was not investing in projects for car design that were just big enough for one or two people and had tiny engines.  These cars would be allowed to use a special lane, and you could get […][...] read more » It’s the future

My partner is a beekeeper (a sad but honest confession) and last year like many others her hive died. It stood vacant and cold through the winter and she resolved to get some more bees this spring. She even donned her beekeeping suit and rushed off to gather a swarm that was terrorising a young […][...] read more » If you build it, they will come…

Tomorrow my daughter returns from a 5 month long trip round the world.  She has been not just to places that she has never been before but also places nothing like anywhere that she has been before.  She has lived with different people in a different way; eaten strange foods and has had to get […][...] read more » Round the World…

They say / sing “Climb every mountain..” but perhaps you aren’t supposed to follow this advice if you happen to be a quadriplegic like Jamie Andrews.  15 years after losing his arms and legs through frostbite whilst climbing Mont Blanc, he decided to climb the Matterhorn, a mountain that is considered challenging to anyone. I […][...] read more » Some challenges are just a bit harder

Andy Fairweather Low and the Low Riders I went to an unusual gig on Saturday.  I went to see Andy Fairweather Low.  I remember him from the 60’s fronting Amen Corner, a pop band with a slightly different sound, but certainly a pop band.  He was playing locally and I knew he was well regarded […][...] read more » Some things never change…

We aren’t all multi-billion dollar companies like Google, in fact, I am sure very few of us are!  So it is easy to sit back and say “Well it is all right for them!”  I would suggest that we all need to look at how, instead of merely being competitive, we can become game changers […][...] read more » Game changing

I don’t if you are aware of the work of Prof Daniel Kahneman, whose work earned him a Nobel prize for economics.  He realised that the way we think is far less rationale than we might wish.  We have two ‘thinking  modes’ which he named System 1 and System 2.  One is the rationale, slow […][...] read more » Changing your mind can be harder than you realise

You have probably heard that Southern England has had a difficult time of it for the last few months with much of the country under water for weeks.  Guildford was flooded and my son has to wade to work.  However, we have been lucky and have had nothing more than 4 days without power to […][...] read more » Floods and other disasters

As regular readers may have noticed, I’m a keen fan of rugby.  I have watched a number of games this season which have literally turned on a bounce of the ball.  On Saturday, Harlequins played Claremont in the Heineken Cup, and Mike Brown went one way, and the ball, unfortunately, went the other leading to […][...] read more » A bounce of the ball

Steven Covey, in his “Seven Habits of Highly Successful People”, talks about the importance of ‘sharpening the saw’, as a metaphor for continuously improving your skill set and capabilities.  I was reminded of this today when I had to replace the foil and cutters in my razor.  It is something I do regularly and this […][...] read more » Sharpening your razor