Washington DC

I’m back – online that is – I’m nowhere near back as in London. As some of you will know and many will not life kind of got away from me from around Thursday last week until around an hour and a half ago when I flumped on to a bed in a hotel in...

kipper slapping

Today the inevitable happened: a colleague found my blog on google. I am not of course refering to any of my close work friends such as Abbi (a very talented blogger but also a colleague) but rather someone who knows me pretty much as...

The problem of language

I am constantly amazed how one can have a meeting with a collection of very bright, articulate, people and still have everyone talk at cross purposes. It’s bizarre. Yet periodically it seems to happen. Meetings overrun, you spend hours talking before realising...